This is a project of a speculative future. One where we reexamine our current modes of being and hypothesize on new rituals, behaviors, and architectures resulting from a new system of values - ones grounded in empathy and blurred boundaries.
The land of East Boston has been mined, moved, collected, submerged, built upon, and forgotten. Continuous infilling and dredging of the bordering Chelsea Creek over the past 150 years established this form of civilization, and the land that was once considered natural has become a hybridized new natural, an expansion that today accommodates oil storage sites.
In this exercise of world-building and representation, we speculative on a future of inaction. Rather than strive for solutions, we imagine the consequences and potentials of living with pollution and environmental injustice through the lens of undiscriminating empathy, extending to the human and the earth as well as the machine. The resulting project reimagines the relationship with water, toxicity, and interspecies sensibility through a filtration landscape that work with the tides to capture toxic compounds and provide habitat for humans and critters alike.
Collaborators: Marisa Waddle, Charlotte Matthai
