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5.0
VENICE SELECTED WORKS
EXPERIENTIAL
MACHINES
NESTED MODELS +
LOCAL ARTIFACTS
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Each of the experiential machines will function as an armature for the display
of models, drawings, and other artifacts of the co-design process with the
communities. Rather than serving as a neutral plinth for the presentation of
these design objects, the experiential machines will reinforce the tectonic and
particular places and stories, material cultural dimensions but of piece in of this design representation. case, the
stories will speak of an imagined (and possible)
future.
Engaging Indigenous Knowledges
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Our proposal aspires to the creation of an
alternative model of economic and community
development to the one that has shaped our
settlements for centuries. This ambition will
necessarily be informed by a wide variety of
voices, including, critically, those of Indigenous
community FRAMING DEVICE members.
FOR
INHABITED TECTONIC +
MULTIMEDIA PROJECTION
MATERIAL CULTURE
Informing and underpinning all aspects of our work
is that we, as a team composed of both non-
Indigenous and Indigenous Peoples, do not have a
priori rights to Indigenous knowledges nor ways of
knowing. Moreover, we explicitly understand these
things NOT as resources to be appropriated and
exploited, but rather as unique cultural attributes
that must be respected and celebrated. If, and
Balancing the pavilion’s spatial constraints with the project’s aspirations to
create an immersive visitor experience that connects Venice with our three
only if, community members
partner communities,
choose
each experiential machine
to
is scaled
share
to allow both
occupation by two to three people while also allowing space to circulate
around and perceive the material and tectonic qualities of each machine.
knowledges and ways of knowing, will they be
folded into the process and product of the project.
The geometry of the experiential machines will be tuned to allow them to both
output and receive projected information. The machines’ surfaces and volumes
will also be modulated to frame views in, out, and through, enabling visitors to
experience the exhibition differently outside, inside, and looking through each
machine.
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In order to facilitate a process that is open,
authentic, and one in which the decisions about
what is and is not shared are made by the
community, the team members responsible for
managing protocols around engagement with
Indigenous ways of knowing will be members of
the communities themselves. Each community
will be compensated appropriately for its time and
effort in this endeavour, and the community will
retain full autonomy as to how Indigenous ways
of knowing and being are incorporated into any
design work.
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Image Above: Use of Experiential machines in the pavilions for creating space for gathering
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AMBASSADOR
COLLECT A PASSPORT
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VISIT PAVILION
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