QUARRY STORIES
Inspired by critical posthumanist philosophy, the project explores how architecture can challenge human-centred perspectives through storytelling as method and tool.
Through experimental working methods, field trips to Venice and Gotland, and extensive research, three stories were developed. Each story takes a non-human actor as its starting point and explores a particular quality or action. Together they raise questions of circularity, coexistence, and entanglement between human and non-human worlds.
The result is three design proposals for the limestone quarries Vaktbackar, Slite and Furillen on Gotland: Fossil Cemetery, Insect Institute and Funghiania.
The project resulted in a book collecting the project's research, stories and design proposals, and an exhibition shown on Gotland in 2024.
The book can be ordered by contacting us.
Through experimental working methods, field trips to Venice and Gotland, and extensive research, three stories were developed. Each story takes a non-human actor as its starting point and explores a particular quality or action. Together they raise questions of circularity, coexistence, and entanglement between human and non-human worlds.
The result is three design proposals for the limestone quarries Vaktbackar, Slite and Furillen on Gotland: Fossil Cemetery, Insect Institute and Funghiania.
The project resulted in a book collecting the project's research, stories and design proposals, and an exhibition shown on Gotland in 2024.
The book can be ordered by contacting us.