Would it be possible to build a simulated Jamestown that changes over time and is projected onto a modeled surface? It could be a historical evolution but that would be less of a model and more of a video perhaps.
Is a model any more effective in painting the picture of Jamestown during its early existence?
What would be the value that someone like Brooks brings to the exercise? Would the model be something that could have a dial that takes you to the future instead of the past? A sort of setting like this
-1______________________________________0________________________________________1
Where you turn it on and the model is set to 0, or present day. You look down at a model on a podium, about 9’ x 6’, and onto this model is projection – mapped Jamestown today. It would be in color and be a video. Cars would whizz down 426. Birds would be visible flying from treetop to treetop. The resolution and detail would be stunning.
A pre-programmed loop would begin and the video fades to black, then fades back in to the postion of -1. This is what Jamestown might have looked like in the year 1900 when Benjamin James and his cohorts arrived. The model would slowly progress through from this point forward until it gets to present day, pausing for narration or other enhancements.
How would you go about venturing into the area between 0 and 1? The future?
I think there is a way to have “players” input various factors into the program and then run a scenario in steps. The first step would be the consequence, say, of the adjacent landowners around the St. James church ownership – around the Museum – selling off to a commercial developer for a mini-strip or something worse.
Then there is a way to input property values and have players simulate roles – some are politicians, some are developers, some are residents – which would take turns reacting to the strip center development.
That's just one possible scenario. Many more could be postulated and possibly simulated. One could input all the land becoming some kind of ag trust, for example, with ancestors of the original settlers as executors. Projecting into the future would the land rise in value quicker than surrounding neighbors, slower, or about the same?
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