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A short film by Oliver Salway that imagines a future where humanity has chosen to embrace a simpler existence to avert climate catastrophe has been highly commended by the judges of Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Salway’s film, which was generated using architectural visualisation tool Twinmotion and then cut together using video

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Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh’s proposal to create “water-positive” buildings that harvest water from the air is the next finalist project in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Called Aquatech, Takulia and Ghosh’s project imagines a future where there is an acute water shortage in many parts of the world. Their proposed solution

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The next finalist project in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Dennis Christian Schmidt’s proposal to create a network of underground cities built around climate-regulating lakes. Called Cave City, Schmidt’s proposal is to create cities deep below the earth’s surface in a bid to protect against climate change and natural disasters such

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The next finalist project in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Dennis Christian Schmidt’s proposal to create a network of underground cities built around climate-regulating lakes. Called Cave City, Schmidt’s proposal is to create cities deep below the earth’s surface in a bid to protect against climate change and natural disasters such

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Mando Xie imagines humanity moving into ship-like floating cities covered with trees to escape rising sea levels in this proposal, which is a finalist in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Xie imagines converting aircraft carriers to create the floating cities in his proposal, which is called Titan Art 2100. Almost half of

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The second finalist in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Justinian Khoo, who has proposed moving humanity into sustainable floating cities so that nature can reclaim the land. Called The Whales, the clusters of cities, which Khoo designed to resemble pods of the large marine mammals, would be powered entirely by renewable

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Pawel Rymsza’s proposal to house humanity in a network of ring-shaped structures built around huge algae-rich lakes is the first of 15 visionary projects selected as finalists for Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Called Carbon Neutral Rings, Rymsza’s proposal is to create a network of enclosed carbon-neutral cities for humanity to live

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