A conversation with Mariana Pestana about our Archive of Impossible Objects workshop for the Porto Biennale. One way of thinking about possible objects is as objects that reinforce the existing status quo, whereas impossible objects exist beyond the constantly shifting border between the real and the unreal. Not unreal in the sense they defy the laws of physics, but because they donât fit our current worldview, our ârealâ, which is just one amongst many (im)possibilities. A conversation with Mariana Pestana about our Archive of Impossible Objects workshop for the Porto Biennale.
Article about Jacqueline Wu’s Artificial Arboretum, dedicated to the preservation, study, and public display of âphotogrammetreesâ found in Google Earth. (UTransLab 2019) Article about Jacqueline Wu’s Artificial Arboretum, dedicated to the preservation, study, and public display of âphotogrammetreesâ found in Google Earth. (UTransLab 2019)
PseudoPhysical series, Devon Reina. Exploring dimensionality through everyday objects (UTransLab Class). PseudoPhysical series, Devon Reina. Exploring dimensionality through everyday objects (UTransLab Class).
An Archive of Impossible Objects (workshop): Starting with Momusâ statement that âevery lie creates a parallel world, the world in which it is trueâ, Nestor Pestana proposed 4 (impossible) masks for navigating the parallel, orthogonal, elastic and bent realities created by politiciansâ lies. An Archive of Impossible Objects (workshop): Starting with Momusâ statement that âevery lie creates a parallel world, the world in which it is trueâ, Nestor Pestana proposed 4 (impossible) masks for navigating the parallel, orthogonal, elastic and bent realities created by politiciansâ lies.
The Chronographer’s Workshop by Kalyani Tupkary. Here, time exists. In fact, it gives everything its existence, but it does not tick (UTransLab Class). The Chronographer’s Workshop by Kalyani Tupkary. Here, time exists. In fact, it gives everything its existence, but it does not tick (UTransLab Class).
Archive of Impossible Object: Globes, part of Alternatives for Living at Kunstmuseen Krefeld Archive of Impossible Object: Globes, part of Alternatives for Living at Kunstmuseen Krefeld
A conversation with Christopher Marcinkoski for LA+ Journal You point out that in much of contemporary design discourse, there is a tension between usefulness and fiction â that fiction is seen as something negative or wasteful. Why is it important that design understands fiction and speculation as means to resist or inflect dominant social mores or intractable economic models? A conversation with Christopher Marcinkoski for LA+ Journal
Magnetic Mountain, work-in-progress, Carolyn Kirschner, Sawyer Post-Doctoral Design Fellow Magnetic Mountain, work-in-progress, Carolyn Kirschner, Sawyer Post-Doctoral Design Fellow
Inaugurating the End by Heather Anderson (UTransLab Class). To take the problem of perpetuity and legitimacy to its extreme, I engaged in a thought experiment: What if a nation was founded, and a constitution was written, to phase out human life? Inaugurating the End by Heather Anderson (UTransLab Class).
NO_POLE, Carolyn Kirschner, Sawyer Post-Doctoral Design Fellow, work in progress NO_POLE, Carolyn Kirschner, Sawyer Post-Doctoral Design Fellow, work in progress
Work in Progress (Archive of Impossible Objects: Other Worlds section). Globes of planets from literature, the fringes of science, mathematics, and the edge of the known universe. Work in Progress (Archive of Impossible Objects: Other Worlds section). Globes of planets from literature, the fringes of science, mathematics, and the edge of the known universe.
Billiard Balls, Devon Reina. Exploring dimensionality through everyday objects (UTransLab Class). Billiard Balls, Devon Reina. Exploring dimensionality through everyday objects (UTransLab Class).
Thinking about metabolism and bio-feature creep. Eka humans by Aakanksha Aggarwal (UTransLab Class). Thinking about metabolism and bio-feature creep. Eka humans by Aakanksha Aggarwal (UTransLab Class).
Pencil by Devon Reina, grappling with dimensionality (UTransLab Class). Pencil by Devon Reina, grappling with dimensionality (UTransLab Class).
Sketch of an Eka Human by Aakanksha Aggarwal for the Aesthetics of Unreality intensive class (UTransLab Class). Sketch of an Eka Human by Aakanksha Aggarwal for the Aesthetics of Unreality intensive class (UTransLab Class).
Sawyer Seminar Workshop exploring counter-political imaginaries with a group of faculty and students from politics, anthropology, design, photography, international relations and other fields. Sawyer Seminar Workshop exploring counter-political imaginaries with a group of faculty and students from politics, anthropology, design, photography, international relations and other fields.
A Larger Reality. An essay for What Purpose: essays on design education celebrating 40 years of the Sir Mischa Black Awards, edited by Mary V Mullin and Christopher Frayling. What if our approach to design education is wrong? What if educating designers to work with prevailing economic, social, technological and political realities â designing for how the world is now, has become a convenient conceit? A Larger Reality. An essay for What Purpose: essays on design education celebrating 40 years of the Sir Mischa Black Awards, edited by Mary V Mullin and Christopher Frayling.
Overview of the Floyd Bennett Auxiliary Reality Zone. A sort of anti-futures facility. Overview of the Floyd Bennett Auxiliary Reality Zone. A sort of anti-futures facility.
ML Generated Impossible Object (Spread from Booklet) / Part of The Many Worlds Working Group ML Generated Impossible Object (Spread from Booklet) / Part of The Many Worlds Working Group
The United Micro Kingdoms: A Travellers’ Tale. For Solution 275-294: Communists Anonymous, edited by Ingo Niermann and Joshua Simon (Sternberg). Communo-nuclearists have a refined sensitivity to different shades of reality: possible and impossible, imagined, actual, virtual, and so on. There are many occupations related to this, falling under the general title of Reality Constructor, which includes reality designers, reality producers, new reality finders, and reality fabricators (bottom-up and top-down). The United Micro Kingdoms: A Travellers’ Tale. For Solution 275-294: Communists Anonymous, edited by Ingo Niermann and Joshua Simon (Sternberg).
