"The Urban Exchange Platform" by Farian Anwar Callum Birchall
 Farian Anwar 

The complex operations of logistics demonstrate the flows and exchanges of capital, resources and information, accelerated by digitalization and the rise in e-commerce. Cities and lifestyles are ever-changing, with increased consumption placing demands for faster, more efficient turnarounds. This is more evident now than ever, given the current Coronavirus pandemic.

The “Urban Exchange Platform” imagines a hypothetical scenario for the future of logistics in the city of London. The drawing presents a system, whereby automated technologies inhabit the city, introducing distribution centers within a network of shared, reused footprints in order to manage waste, products and the outcomes of our hyper-consumption.

Through an aerial perspective, the image captures the scales of exchanges and encounters between people, technology and the city, establishing a system of transparency that is woven into the lives of its inhabitants. It depicts a future of coexistence and productivity, the extremes of which are open to interpretation.