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		<dc:creator>Kurt Kohlstedt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of future-focused artwork tends to examine extreme outcomes, but this artist&#8217;s visions represent a compelling range of possibilities from&#160;catastrophic to optimistic, Dystopian to Utopian&#160;with&#160;other shades of gray&#160;in between. First consider the range of negative outcomes and what they would do to villages, towns and cities around the world (as illustrated in this first <a href="https://weburbanist.com/2015/03/17/altopias-speculative-art-explores-both-dark-light-futures/">&#8230;</a>]]></description>
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<div id="urb-ads-toc-box" class="post-ads-toc-box urb-ads-toc" style="display:none;"></div><p>The world of future-focused artwork tends to examine extreme outcomes, but this artist&rsquo;s visions represent a compelling range of possibilities from&nbsp;catastrophic to optimistic, Dystopian to Utopian&nbsp;with&nbsp;other shades of gray&nbsp;in between.</p>
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<p>First consider the range of negative outcomes and what they would do to villages, towns and cities around the world (as illustrated in this first round of images above and below) &ndash;&nbsp;built environments afflicted by surprising climatic changes like&nbsp;heat waves, ice storms and droughts.</p>
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<p>On the one hand,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.behance.net/ekatin" target="_blank">Evgeny Kazantsev</a>&nbsp;considers these disaster scenarios, from dust storms in Barcelona and villages in the Alps without snow to Venice gone dry and oceans overrunning desert cities. But this is only half of the story.</p>
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