Thursday, September 8, 2011

Thinking through design: A quest for Utopia through Installation Design

Now that I've narrowed the focus of my research, the results have been a lot more
fruitful.

There appears to be a wealth of contemporary examples of designed installation space and interactive community installations that seek in some way to explore this theme.

These can be explicit, in their naming and imagery, such as with Helen Kontouris's
Zoie Utoipa installation, or more loosely dream-like. Phillip Beesley's Hylozoic ground,
in a way, theorises what living with responsive digital systems that can live autonomously
and produce life might be like, and produces with it a future-based scenario that does
not embody a nihilistic view of technology, but instead proffers a vision of a world that
operates in an integrated harmony.

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