2. (re)Grounded
As virtual lines are made physical across the face of the earth through the unequal flow of industrial material and its waste, the house of the future must negotiate the accumulating arche-geological strata of human material. This strata presents a difficult contradiction: it encourages speculations toward techno-fetishistic flight, but these soil-less follies only reinforce wastefulness. The house of the future must counter ideas of being-without-the-earth while coming to terms with the literally and figuratively poisoned ground: microplastics, property, large-scale waste, blood and soil politics.
An inclusion of human waste products within Geology redefines material extraction. As the earth is covered with waste, the quarry becomes more familiar, filled as it is with our childhood homes. In negotiating a new domesticity, (re)Grounded dives into the new quarry, allowing for a material reconstitution of the contradictions between modern immaterialism and anthropocenic “objectivity.”
HOME Competition Honorable Mention.
An inclusion of human waste products within Geology redefines material extraction. As the earth is covered with waste, the quarry becomes more familiar, filled as it is with our childhood homes. In negotiating a new domesticity, (re)Grounded dives into the new quarry, allowing for a material reconstitution of the contradictions between modern immaterialism and anthropocenic “objectivity.”
HOME Competition Honorable Mention.
