What we did
I worked closely with the studio directors, Jon Arden and Anab Jain, to develop their vision for this exhibit. I sketched concepts, created digital renderings, built prototypes, visited sites, wrote creative essays, and collected research to develop the conceptual, visual, and physical language for the exhibit. Under guidance of the studio directors I designed the interior space for the installation and with CCCB I directed the construction of the space. I budgeted, created a bill of materials, and project gantt charts. I contacted suppliers and sourced materials. I created many primary digital and physical artifacts for the exhibit and I traveled to Barcelona to support the installation. I was one of five artists who installed the exhibit.
Project Story
The exhibit, Mitigation of Shock, is an immersive installation that transports you to a London flat thirty years in the future, to show you what life might be like in the fast approaching future of an Anthropocene planet wracked by climate change. In the year 2049 rising temperatures and changing weather have destabilized global agricultural production. In London, grocery store shelves are empty and the weather outside is dangerous. In response, living spaces have been increasingly given over to experimental forms of domestic agriculture, and to manage it all food computers have been improvised from the detritus of a technological utopia that never quite arrived. In this small flat a family once used to consumption and comfort radically alters their way of living to survive.
