Time Capsule Found On The Dead Planet
The environment is woven into the architecture and vice versa; one changes with the other. We read Margaret Atwood’s story about five ages of a changing planet, reported on the last day of its existence through a time capsule
. The author asserts that ”this isn’t climate change – it’s everything change.”
We understand architecture as a socially engaged transformative spatial practice to imagine and create a more just collective life. We see in it the potential to represent the world beyond individual buildings, which exists along with various living and non-living beings, bodies, actors, times, geographies, societies, and cultures. We believe that architecture can contribute to other future worlds, and to different relationships we have with living beings, things, land, and resources. We think architecture should not be limited by professionalism or neoliberal motivations.
How do we thus begin with architecture?
The participants from the first semester evolved time capsules in several steps using critical reflection, material experiments, cartography, drawing, and model making
, photography, video, storytelling, food and machine learning. We also explored the possibilities of approaches to architectural representation and image-making beyond the Eurocentric conceptualizations, looking at examples from Asia, Africa and Latin America
.
Magazin
Time capsule found on the dead planet — 1. Kernmodul BA Architektur, Magazin 24/25, 40 pages.