Foll(i)cle (2020)
article⁄Foll(i)cle (2020)
abstract⁄In the early months of 2019, air pollution in Bangkok reached a record high, bringing national and international attention to the air quality in the South East Asian cosmopolitan. Although applications such as realtime pollution maps provide an environmental reading from the exterior, such information reveals the ‘here and now,’ where its record is inevitably lost through the ‘refreshing’ process of the live update and does not take increment and accumulation as factors to consider. The project was conceived around understanding the human body as precisely that medium that resists classification as either an interior or exterior environment that inherently performs as an impressionable record of its surroundings. Can a city’s toxicity be read through its living constituents Can the living bodies that dwell, navigate, breathe, and process habitable environments be accessed Can architecture retain a degree of independence while also performing as a beacon for the collective Along this line of questioning, it was found that human hair can be transformed from a material that is effortlessly and continuously grown, cut, stylized, and discarded, and instead be intercepted and used in the production of public information gathering. Follicle is a collective being made of discarded human hair. Performing as a parliament for collectivity embedded with a protocol the hairy pavilion invites the public in and presents them with a device at the center that hosts all the necessary equipment and information for anonymously and voluntarily providing hair samples for heavy metal analysis, the data of which is used in making a publically accessible toxicartography. Although humans are the primary subject for this study, the results suggest that extending the methodology to nonhumans could prove useful in reading urban toxicity through various life forms.
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| Year |
2020 |
| Authors |
Lopez, Deborah; Charbel, Hadin. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume II: Projects |
| Pages |
136-141 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
foll-i-cle |
