The cosmic perspective and self-transcendent experience prompted by an Overview Effect is deployed here by the Academy of Urban Astronauts to set in motion a post-humanist worldview.įor the 1968 Triennale di Milano, with the theme The Big Number, Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck designed an exhibition that provided a disturbing view of the collapse of Western welfare societies. Darkness is an unevenly distributed, and designed, condition. While some parts of the planet are affected by the recurrent presence of light, in others life evolves in its absence, around recurrent power outages and blackouts. Research Department, Het Nieuwe Instituut This performative research reflects on how narratives of self-optimisation and hyper-productivity shape design practice today. Through a choreography of touch sensations, an affectionate squeezing machine assists in altering the gene expression of oxytocin, a hormone released in the brain, responsible for building trust and pair bonding.ĭesign Academy Eindhoven, Master Social Design Investigating design’s ability to influence instinctual behaviour, Wijnsma’s installation presents three skin fragrances that act as invisible carriers of information. These are openings to what we don’t generally get, or choose, to see to cosmic, automated, and seemingly invisible environments that are designed and could, therefore, be redesigned. Dioramas, projections, or smooth screens reveal films, performances, sound and scent-scapes conceived by the different contributors. This viewing mechanism acts as a carrier of research as well as a layered horizon condensing historical and current modes of seeing. Originally devised to create the illusion of a panoptic vision of the world, the panorama here articulates a fragmented representation of a contemporary landscape. Design is, therefore, positioned as a destructive as well as restorative endeavour, and one involved in the body’s changing relationship with the cycles of light and darkness.įor the XXII Triennale di Milano, the project deploys the panorama as a spatial model. The project argues that today’s environment, where the borders between nature, ecology, technology and culture increasingly fade, is the result of persistent acts of design. I See That I See What You Don’t See, the Dutch contribution to the XXII Triennale di Milano, presents a layered, non-binary, and sometimes unexpected picture of the current multispecies relationship with darkness. Angela Rui, Marina Otero Verzier, and Francien van Westrenen
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