Thanx for all wonderful examples!!
I have collected and summarized a few below. The discussion is practice-oriented.
The most recurring elements of these appear to be "future buildings/technology" and "everyday life". Most of the examples may be classified as "future buildings/technology without everyday life" or "everyday life without future buildings/technology". The "future buildings/technology" scenarios often present a (technocratic) vision, without people altogether or people reduced to being happy users of the buildings/technology. There are an abundance of these, for instance the 1939 world fair below or google "masdar" or "caofeidian". (Or most infomercials by major IT corps).
The "everyday life" films are often presented with real or fictional persons, but focussing on the current situation and seldom include any "future technology".
The Fife examples Terry recommended is closest to what I was trying to get at, in presenting "everyday life in future with future technology". The presentation does however only discuss future technology and their consequences in voice.
In the situations I am working, the challenge is to have ideas about a wanted "future everyday life" and to test-drive them using suggestions for "future technology". For instance first person narratives of future everyday life can be used to evaluate architectural and planning proposals. If people think that a certain proposal will support or allow the wanted "future everyday life" then it gets high marks. The design process is trying to explore the future life styles made possible by new buildings/technology while at the same time trying to discover what demands those life styles may put on the buildings/technology. For instance there are many technologies for sustainable housing but these may demand a life style that is not attractive and thus the whole effort fails. Sometimes the situation gets even worse. Example: Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm was designed for car pools and therefore has less parking space. But the car pools are not used much, people are beginning to have their own cars. The area may then become crowded with cars and you have to travel further for parking than in "traditional" areas which increases co2 emissions and take lots of time.
Eco-city becomes less eco-friendly than non-eco-city because of mismatch between life-style and technology. I fear that many eco-city efforts will fail because this. (Also Lin Peng, mayor of Caofeidian, expressed such concerns when I spoke to him about this just a few weeks ago.)
Therefore there is a need to illustrate the "future everyday life" is a way to allow people and designers to understand and to evaluate it and its relationship with "future buildings/technology". This is where these types of film maybe useful. They may need to include sketchy or metaphorical "future technology", but then centering on what the technology allows people to achieve, rather than the technology or its appearance. (Se last ref below for example)
I will post the Gellivare/Malmberget film which will be ready within a week or so!
/Lars
Technocratic, no people, just "cars driving 100 mph with automatic collision avoidance"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cO9X4NMb4
This includes people but still technocratic and shows no new life style. For instance it shows new technologies to make domestic life simpler but the wife is still at home:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMAeSNZZz0
Showing real people discussing everyday life in Rowley Way. Focus on now, however. But very useful if one wants to build an area inspired by the architecture in Rowley Way. Gives an insight to good life styles that emerged from the new buildings/technology
http://vimeo.com/15155983
This is pretty close. Four (macroeconomic scenarios) for Fife has been developed and people have been asked to discuss life in the future of each.
www.fifedirect.org/2020vision
Here are examples of everyday life in the current situation, used to drive and inspire design. (They may have other examples, but not that I could find on their various websites)
http://www.designdocumentaries.com/
Presentation of life style with sketched technology and buildings. Great example, but presenting 70s life style, not future or wanted.
the first film in http://www.voomtv.co.uk/showreel/animation
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