Between the Grains and Gaps – An Object-Led Conditions Forecaster

Enabling the perception and prediction of the near and far, through the inspection of strayed objects gifted to the reconfigurable littoral site by the tide, the programme operates within the realm of a lost and found, but with projective capacity. As a conditions forecaster, the project seeks to explore how object relations can orchestrate a programme, as well as how architecture can be an agent in deriving and making sense of their embodied narratives. How can an architecture be witness to and integral in mapping deviation of both physical matter and matters that are causally linked to the dislodged artefacts.

Erasure and displacement are used as a tool to turn findings into predictions through negotiating edge-conditions. The project wrestles with evidence of cause and effect, asking in what ways can we extrapolate knowledge of their situational and relational specificities? The practice is akin to that of a dentist and the working methodology is analogous to the study of teeth. What stories do worn down teeth tell and how is each generation tuned?