PROBABLE | PLAUSIBLE | POSSIBLE

RESILIENCE, PLURALISM, & THE FUTURES OF ALLENTOWN Imagine 50 years from now, what has changed? Imagine 100 years from now, what has been adapted? Imagine 500 years from now, what has persevered? Imagine sea levels have risen 50 feet... Imagine air quality has gotten so bad that everyone must use an inhaler when they step outside... Imagine a neighborhood bands together and successfully petitions to have their community center moved to the top of a seismically sound hill... Allentown is a neighborhood of Tukwila along the Duwamish River: a residential island amidst a sea of highways and industrial infrastructure. Recognizing that place history is told and remembered differently depending on perspective, we applied this multiplicity in proposing speculative futures for Allentown. Through a generative process of imagining and storytelling, we challenged our ideas of what is possible, and complicate the overused, underconsidered concept of resilience—something that, like place history, has a variety of interpretations and implications.