There is but one
truly serious spatial problem and that is how humanity will deal with the
accumulation of trash.
Trash rapidly increases, and so their displacement. At their luckiest, trash gets recycled under sustainability policies. The displacement of trash from our personal eco-chambers causes more pollution and waste because their leaving creates the illusion of their disappearance. They become out of sight, out of mind. Yet, as Jane Bennett argues drawing from Robert Sullivan’s remarks, vitality of things is not disposable, trash heaps are decidedly alive.
Our question is whether the vitality of these social outcasts can become a resource for everyday architecture? So that the trash is observed and recognized in proximity. This question and its possibilities grow more urgent, with the relatively new form of trash; the digital, besides domestic, organic, chemical, nuclear etc. We started by coining the term, trashed-arianism—being concerned with trash and its uses. This collage remains a totem for our trashed-arian mindsets—produced by collecting our own digital and physical trash to use it as a resource for our drawing.
Trash rapidly increases, and so their displacement. At their luckiest, trash gets recycled under sustainability policies. The displacement of trash from our personal eco-chambers causes more pollution and waste because their leaving creates the illusion of their disappearance. They become out of sight, out of mind. Yet, as Jane Bennett argues drawing from Robert Sullivan’s remarks, vitality of things is not disposable, trash heaps are decidedly alive.
Our question is whether the vitality of these social outcasts can become a resource for everyday architecture? So that the trash is observed and recognized in proximity. This question and its possibilities grow more urgent, with the relatively new form of trash; the digital, besides domestic, organic, chemical, nuclear etc. We started by coining the term, trashed-arianism—being concerned with trash and its uses. This collage remains a totem for our trashed-arian mindsets—produced by collecting our own digital and physical trash to use it as a resource for our drawing.
Faal Tools
with Ekin Eryılmaz
with Ekin Eryılmaz
Fall 2019
Competition / Collective
Competition / Collective
trahed-arian