Luis Druschke
Borders and Territories
Geostory: A Laboratory for Environmental Transformations
Rethinking Geoengineering Activities
The project emerged from my personal understanding of the architect´s expertise that lies in his/her imagination, in our naivete, and in realising that we are never experts but rather mere amateurs.
It concerns the increasing alienation of representing climate conditions that refer to the world as a resource.
If the representation of the climate crisis heavily relies on data that intrinsically does not entail a visual agency, it is also a crisis of representation. This project seeks to transcend the abstraction and complexity of the discourse revolving around the Earth´s future by creating a narrative that grounds itself in the imaginary. As such, the intention of the project is to move away from a human-centric approach to climate engineering by addressing human and non-human actors. Therefore, it suggests rethinking existing geoengineering activities to spatially represent changing environmental conditions.
Hence, besides its primal function of altering climate conditions, it operates as an environmental warning device that provides the territory with a medium for expressing its changing state.