The studio invites its participants to propose ECOTONE ARCHITECTURE i.e., architecture to act as an inorganic component of a post-industrial landscape; facilitating a multi-species habitat.
Drawing upon Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing’s materialist thinking; the studio explores the question of survival by discovering what manages to live [and how] in the ruins of such a landscape by looking for evidences of multi-species collaborative survival there. This post-humanist materialist discourse encourages tentacular thinking for architectural design to address ongoing concerns of climate change and ecological distress. Hybrid materials, multi-species habitat, renewability, and adaptability of post-industrial ruined sites are some of the inquiries that drive the studio.
Ecotone | The Sentient Ruins 