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For Virilio the accident offers this sense of devastation without immediate destruction and for him suggests that it has the potential to reveal the substance or truth of the modern will to progress for which ever-increasing transport and communication speeds and a total and immediate grasp and command of every place on the planet is symptom. It is clear that Virilio is concerned to analysis a temperament in humanity that rushes to experience the limit of the modern age in the form of global fullness as completion, and in key ways, ambitions an end to all striving.

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C We tend to think of design as that which produces a future. This would well be the legacy of a modernist notion of design. And in that sense it does away with the past to produce the future. Now, it would be interesting to ask a radically different question about design. Design isn’t that which produces a future but rather is that which salvages or reclaims the past. European modernist notions of design aimed to start with a blank site, and regarding modernist thinking of a site, land reclamation could be seen as an act of man “creating” a “blank” site – horizontal expansion of territory.

But, clearly, there never is a blank site. Even if you clear away everything that is on the site, it is never a blank site.

What you are only ever doing is recovering whatever is there, recovering in a double sense of re-locating, salvaging from out of a milieu, but also erasing and re-inscribing traces of whatever is there to be encountered, recovering as one would a worn couch. So, recovery has two differing Ǥ Ǧϐ ǡ ϐ ǡ just as with salvaging something. What you salvage can never be what that thing once was. There is a loss of context, a certain degree of destruction. One tries to make good with what is destroyed

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We are aware of the question of evolution and the science of Darwin. In brief, Darwin’s theory is that in order for a being to become a being it has to slowly change over time through manifold kinds of accidents, adjustments and shifts, according to its environment or milieu. Where creationism suggests there is a starting point and an end point to history, Darwin and his theory of evolution suggests that there is no starting point and no end to history. There is just endless mutation or change, becoming rather than being, which gives rise to something new. So, for evolution theory, the creation of beings is immanent to history itself. Or history is the trace structure of a milieu’s change.

Ȃ Ȃ ϐ In A Thousand Plateaus (2004), Deleuze and Guattari focus on two transformative ns processes that they call ‘smoothing’ and ‘striating’ and which amount to two opposed operations perations and interpreta interpretations of territory. Smooth space is the territory of the nomad, while striated ated space is created by sedentary forces - forces of the State. One tends to pure becoming, the other er to pure being. Smooth Sm ϐ ϐ is free from territorializing boundedness. On the contrary, there is striated space or the spac space of the State, which creates measurements, homogeneity, and order to space. Striated space is dependent dep on hierarchy and power.

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Due to site development as car parking, boat mooring space and lack of public activities, it failed to keep balance of what D&G calls smooth space and striated space. This project seeks to balance these two kind of territory by re-claiming or salvaging the past event traces of the site.