iv. Design Experiment

Design Experiment

This model was an experiment of the theory of affordances and ecological perception in the context of a post-capitalist scenario. A landscape of the Capitalocene that has been prescribed an aesthetic value as shown in the photographs of Edward Burtynsky was created as a base. Through kitbashing, technological appendages were added as the curves and breaks of the base afforded.

This creation was an imagination of how the scavengers would create on destroyed landscapes using the technology of the Capitalocene, within the framework of place-thought. Without the framework of modernity, the divide between nature and culture is blurred, and actions that occur as a result of perceiving affordances become cultural practices themselves—a fulcrum system created to bridge land on either side of a pit became a practice of transportation that rejects normativity; an apparatus that allows rotational movement became a heating device that moves with the Sun to capture its rays and reflect them for heating purposes.

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