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grow your own vegetables

This project will be about our relation to food & foodproduction. The proposal is to grow vegetables in the 'natural' (but unusable?) space we have left over in our cities. Why make beautiful gardens when you can use that space for food production? Of course it is easier to buy your food in the supermarket, but the difference between the reality of our cities and the romantic longing for a ecological way of life can often be in conflict.

www.harmendehoop.com

a year of breathing

Using a standard online carbon calculator (the kind that sell you some trees to ‘offset’ your emissions, so you don’t feel so bad about flying) I worked out that my travel by air to Girona and back to my home in Scotland would produce 0.3 tonnes of CO2. Our own bodies are intimately involved with this process of exchange with the atmosphere. The National Lung Health Education Program estimates that we each breathe out around 400ml CO2 per minute, net. When I added this up, it works out that a flight from Glasgow to Girona produces the same amount of CO2 emissions as one year of exhalations for one person! So instead of using up a year of breathing by flying to install my work, I am donating my ‘carbon budget’ 0.3kg of CO2 to the people of Girona for the purposes of breathing. The Mindfulness of Breathing is a very simple and profound meditation, practiced in many spiritual traditions. It is simply becoming aware of the breath as it moves in and out of our body. From the moment we are born to the moment of death we are in constant exchange with our world. Working in collaboration with students in Girona, a meditation space will be set up in the cloister of Saint Domenech…

http://yearofbreathing.blogspot.com/

www.samanthaclark.net

sing along / cancionero

Sing-along/Cancionero is a site-specific sound and sculptural installation that plays with the idea of singing to plants.  It attempts to make evident the, if anything, spiritual necessity for the connection between plant and human world. The piece has two components: sound and sculpture.The sound component uses layered and staggered voices of the people that live and visit Girona, and local bird songs that will rise up from the center of Pati del Consell Social.  These songs will be the nourishment upon which the flowers at the festival nearby will feed. The Patti will be filled with an atmosphere of both chaos and equilibrium as the voices join and tear apart in song, and they will act as an invitation to attendees to join in. 

www.lucreciatroncoso.net  -  www.karriehovey.com

plant refraction

The silver envelopes are the principal element and works as container of plants. The thermal condition and its faculty to support the dampness of the soil make it viable to shelter the plant guaranteeing its survival in an ideal way. I am interested in the relationship between the elements; the texture of the stonewall and the refraction of the silver envelopes or container turned on a dynamic visual screen of refraction in constant transformation related to the different lights of the day.

www.theclorofilas.com

long time

As innovations are changing how we perceive and interact with the world, are we coming closer to or farther from understanding each other and the world around us? Mining deep into this we find the memory of time and history preserved in the natural environment surrounding us. This project will stretch the idea of time embedded in tree rings to create an elongated tree cookie that will physically connect the architecture to the ground. The project attempts to make time physical. This extension of time sculpturally and visually reflects on the perspective of ‘long time’ and long-term thinking, both into the future and into the past.

follow the white rabbit

Two doors (illogical) question the walls (limit and defense): they play with the absurd and unrealistic, they pose a choice, a metaphor in which the same item in one case is one which seems alive, but not being attached to the rest of the plant (and only the wall) fades, while in the case of the nearby wall where it was removed, the element that gives life (the ivy) will grow back, highlighting the magic of nature. The location suggests new exits, a paradox: a new, magical and symbolic landscape and its functions. Ivy grows, and then fills the empty space, leaving no trace, returning to the natural balance. The leaves that were transferred, eventually dry up and become organic fertilizer for the original ivy. Thus, what was represented disappears, creation and destruction, operating simultaneously, balanced and sustainable. The element that seems alive and bright is just a mirage, it is the door of the immediate, while the one that seems empty is the one hiding the actual life.