Predictions for 2009 are starting to trickle in and generally the feeling is one of Very Serious Business And Also Design Will Save the World. We propped the eyelids open with a toothpick, loaded the mental shotgun, and started making our way through archinect’s 20 Predictions for 2009, culled from a group of editors, bloggers, writers, and dudes-on-archinect.

Highlights:

• “infrastructure will stop being grey,” — Barry Lehrman


• “The very best thing that can happen to us in 2009 is a massive wave of boredom washing over the whole of architecture.” — Bryan Boyer
• “Arriving back at Earth, Cylons and humans will work their shit out. For the time being at least.” — Marcus Trimble.

And, worth reading in its entirety, Mimi “loudpaper” Zeiger’s slam run through what the future isn’t.

Predictions for 2009 [Archinect]