Millennium People

A London-based design group and think-tank with two factions: the blog (from which the group takes its name) and Speculative Publications, a print and graphic-design arm. The collective is comprised of an active core membership and a (growing) host of contributors.

MP is founded on the belief that the period 2001-2007 was an extension of twentieth-century paradigms, which had become patently inappropriate for the new millennium. This centennial "extra-time" only ended when the Global Financial Crisis plunged the world into fiscal chaos. The ramifications of this event, however, are political, scientific, technological, artistic and economic. We believe that the West is now experiencing a transitional period from which will emerge a radically new social model. We are only now truly in the first decade of the third millennium.

Millennium People is a propositional group, which believes in exploring the possibilities of the present and immediate future through experiment and meaningful speculation, not vapid or sophistic postulation. Like a Dubai skyscraper that falls into ruin even as it is being built, the quest for clarity through endless redefinition is thwarted by the fact that even a positive creative act generates a whole host of unexpected accidents.


Selected Archives:

• Landscape
• The Geopolitics of the Moon
• Reburbia: cities turned to dust
• Terraforming Venus
• Marseilles: Bunker Archeaology
• Transformed Territories: Messenes
• Human Geology
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• Theory
• The Parthenon and approach
• Research architecture and Mark Foster Gage
• Real-time
• Temporality and plays of cinema
• Wursa, and the problem of trick art
• H.G.Wells - War in the Air
• Specular Architecture
• Metabolism: Icons that are not objects
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• Technology
• Hijacking Apple's wireless networks
• Nomadic banks
• How big is the Internet
• Nature versus Technology
• The Digital Dialectic
• Composite Memories
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• London
• The BT tower as a conning dock
• The villainy of Prince Charles
• A fun palace for the people
• London Bridge is falling down
• British Telecom tower
• Commune on the banks of the Thames
• Hidden Rivers: Thames and Tyburn
• Ramble: Thames Wading
• Under the Arches: Euston Approach
• Battersea: the place of the ruin
• A New London Topography
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• Reports
• Richard serra in Paris vs. 2001
• Tschumi's Legacy
• Radical Nature at the Barbican
• Naoto Fukusawa on Aalto's legacy
• Nouvel's Serpentine
• Iain Sinclair on nostalgia and forgetting
• Review of Koolhaas and Eisenman
• State of the union with Eisenman
• Toyo Ito talks it over
• Nic Clear and Ballard
• Sir Ken Adam
• Zaha in Marseilles
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• Shifting Shorelines #1: St. Magnus
• Shifting Shorelines #2: Twin Towers
• Shifting Shorelines #3: Atlantikwall
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• Iceland #1
• Iceland #2: Power
• Iceland #3: Geothermal greenhouses
• Iceland #4: Sudeyreri
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• Anti-Object #1
• Anti-Object #2
• Anti-Object #3