HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK

HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK by donson c from singapore

designer's own words:

This is a series of 6 photographs questioning what Singapore could become in future:

HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK

Houses are getting higher and higher

Built closer and closer

Made smaller and smaller

This is Singapore

HDB is the primary housing

We call them shoebox flats

How are the shoes coping?

This is another Singapore

COE is instituted to control vehicle ownership

ERP is adopted to reduce traffic

BTO is implemented to curb unsold flats

This is our government

Shoes park everywhere

Queue for parking lots like cars

Fined for illegal parking like us
Hello future, hello shoepark

Shoes ought to be placed in the house, inside shoebox units, but the housing and land issues that we might be facing in future could move our shoes from indoor to outdoor. Will the government make us park our shoes like how we park our cars? Shoes in this context is a metaphor, if there is no space we can always throw away the shoes to make space but how are we Singaporeans going to cope with the space issue? We can’t possibly line ourselves into the rubbish chute. Where will we end up?

Shoes are invading the carpark, taking up the lots and paying for parking like cars.
HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK
On the other side of Singapore the sunny island, there is landed shoepark where space is abundance and exclusive.
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HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK
Parking lots are everywhere even bicycle lots are taken up by shoes.
HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK
In supermarkets, there are express lane, could there be one in another shoepark? Look at the queue over there, seems like the public phone has lost the war.
HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK
Mailbox no longer house letters, they are the new shoe garage.
HELLO FUTURE HELLO SHOEPARK
Electricity meters are hacked and converted to shoepark meters.