What Lies Under The Ground Beneath Your Feet?
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From the outset, the project set out to explore a more reciprocal relationship with water, considering it as a living being rather than a resource or commodity.
It was important for the work to unfold itself in public urban spaces, where the tension between individual and collective responsibility could be explored, and where forming a more sustainable relationship with water could be understood as an inherently social act.
The concept repeatedly returned to the idea of a structure that might bring people together with one another and with water, while remaining open to how that structure could take form.
Throughout its development, the project moved between temporary and permanent possibilities, using this duality to consider the social, spatial, and ethical implications of occupying city space. These explorations eventually evolved into a toolkit.
It was important for the work to unfold itself in public urban spaces, where the tension between individual and collective responsibility could be explored, and where forming a more sustainable relationship with water could be understood as an inherently social act.
The concept repeatedly returned to the idea of a structure that might bring people together with one another and with water, while remaining open to how that structure could take form.
Throughout its development, the project moved between temporary and permanent possibilities, using this duality to consider the social, spatial, and ethical implications of occupying city space. These explorations eventually evolved into a toolkit.
Reflecting through quick making: exploring what it means to hold water temporarily.
Exploring the gestures and rituals associated with collecting and holding water across different cultures. What does it mean to relate to water with care, humility, reverence, and respect?
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Exploring what a public, collective infrastructure for collecting and holding water could look like.
Exploring early iterations of the tool kit through rapid, low-fidelity prototyping, testing shape, scale, and material relationships.
