A Temporary Place
2019
2019
CO2 is clouding our thinking. It is predicted that by the end of this century, we as the human species will lose around 21 % of our cognitive abilities due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The ever growing combustion of fossil resources to power technology, greatly utilised to gather data, compute and thus create a world as understandable and predictable as possible to us – we have imposed a vicious circle upon ourselves, in which our minds as the explicit value of eternal human advancement are being threatened by the very pursuit of which.
By bringing physicality to this contemporary dilemma, all of a sudden, thinking itself becomes designable. "A Temporary Place" is the tangible and theoretical creation of a seating that uses the estimated amount of atmospheric CO2 in the year 2100 as a material. The resulting space for human "unclouded thinking", for "being" without technological computation, can thus be described as an anti-speculative design approach: only now, that we are still able to separate between the atmosphere within the structure and the atmosphere surrounding us, can this place exist.
︎︎︎ Research summary (PDF)
By bringing physicality to this contemporary dilemma, all of a sudden, thinking itself becomes designable. "A Temporary Place" is the tangible and theoretical creation of a seating that uses the estimated amount of atmospheric CO2 in the year 2100 as a material. The resulting space for human "unclouded thinking", for "being" without technological computation, can thus be described as an anti-speculative design approach: only now, that we are still able to separate between the atmosphere within the structure and the atmosphere surrounding us, can this place exist.
︎︎︎ Research summary (PDF)
