O(U)R Experience

From April 3 to April 25, 2024, the O(U)R EXPERIENCE: EXPLORING ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN THE PLANET, THE COSMOS, AND HUMANS exhibit in the Gould Gallery of the College of Built Environments, University of Washington featured six O(U)R projects. These were:

·       Cenotaph for Niels Bohr (based on quantum entanglement)

·       1x1 Land Acknowledgement Design Challenge that seeks to extend this issue into design and property ownership

·       D.I.A.N.A [Designing Insidious Alternative Architecture], a digital data virus critique of AI in the form of a mockumentary

·       A House Deconstructed documents the ultimate source of the materials and processes of a recent house built in Seattle

·       Tirtha: A Human Body Composting Temple develops new rituals and practices for the now legal practice in WA of composting human remains

·       Kishkindha NY, a multi-species city imagined as an inhabited forest building on a city concept found in the Hindu epic The Ramayana.

Presented as future imaginaries responding to the climate emergency, we displayed the work in the form of a continuous filmic panel, 96’ long, the wood frame wall for which custom-built into the space by the CBE Fabrications Lab (Director: Raenna Moore). The Kishkindha NY selfie space was reproduced as a facsimile of its display in the ECC exhibit complete with the VR, while the Tirtha scroll was presented flat on a table.