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The scenario "Visionary imaginary Landscape Project" is located in the quadrants: Opacity, Virtuality, and Nature over Man. The phrase from the FaaS Machine that inspired us to create the scenario is "A shocking plant breaking with visionary imaginary landscape." Here it was the words visionary imaginary landscape, detached from the sentence we were shown, that gave this scenario its name and final direction.
During the great digitization, all of nature was digitized as part of the Visionary Imaginary Landscape Project. The project was initiated when climate change began to permanently alter nature. The diversity of the plant world was to be virtually preserved in this way.
The beauty of nature would soon only exist in old pictures. Therefore, among other things, ways were sought to bring the beauty back into nature or at least back into the public space.
The project was initially driven by the desire to mobilize more energy for the preservation of nature by reminding the population of the beauty of nature and thus recognizing its value as indispensable.
The pilot project, started in a few cities, has generated a lot of attention worldwide. In just a few years, the Visionary Imaginary Landscape Project unrecognizably transformed cities and landscapes of entire countries.
The goal of the project was later to cover cities, communities, landscapes, and ultimately entire countries, with a virtual or imaginary landscape. The experience of nature has thus been made an everyday reality for every individual. The physical "basic structures" i.e. the nature, landscape and cities that exist have been scanned as part of the project and covered with a digital skin. Even forests destroyed by bark beetles thus appear as new again - green and alive.
Initially, the project was a resounding success; but after the imaginary landscape became the status quo, the initial energy to revitalize the nature underneath had ebbed. The virtual cities became the norm and were perceived as real. A culture of its own emerged around the virtual green house facades and landscapes. It expressed itself in trends (trend leaf colors of the season, novel leaf shapes for facades and vines, avenue trees of the month) and personalized virtual garden concepts that grew far beyond the limits of what is possible in nature