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AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: Water Miner – Johannesburg 2050

Water Miner imagines a future Johannesburg in which climate catastrophe forces citizens to live in the gold mines beneath the city.

Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Team
Mingyang Sun and Fangyuan Sheng
School
University of Pennsylvania (Instructor: Christopher Marcinkoski)
Category
A+ Award for Student Work
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Water Miner imagines a future Johannesburg in which climate catastrophe forces citizens to live in the gold mines beneath the city. Part architectural rendering, part graphic novel, the work tells a dystopian story with a utopian turn.

Joburg’s residents build subterranean smart homes and 3D printers to provide them with food. They regreen the city from the ground up, harvesting climate-adaptive crops, and transform the downtown high-rises into research centres and water-monitoring stations. In time, catastrophe becomes a force for renewal.

AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: Water Miner – Johannesburg 2050

Water Miner imagines a future Johannesburg in which climate catastrophe forces citizens to live in the gold mines beneath the city.

Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Team
Mingyang Sun and Fangyuan Sheng
School
University of Pennsylvania (Instructor: Christopher Marcinkoski)
Category
A+ Award for Student Work

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