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Symposium
Videos Script 1 Good morning, everyone, my name is Runxin! Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to the things you throw away? This soda can, that shipping box from your latest online order – what becomes of them after they leave your hands? Recycling often feels like the end of the story,…
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Positions through triangulating
My initial position Discarding is a way of maintaining the dominant system, which is the system of production. We discard to make room for new production and for the society to keep ‘growing’. It is not necessarily wrong for society to grow, but we must look at alternatives outside the dominant systems. Initial explorations Principal…
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Cross-year studio: alphabet as infrastructure
Prompts What does it mean when companies such as Google and Facebook renamed them Alphabet and Meta? Language implicates reality: the ideas we attach to things become things in the world. We use metaphors to describe things that elude our grasp, and fictions and metaphors allow an imaginary concept to be legitimated. Voss, G. (2024) Systems…
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Positions through dialoguing
Through conversations with Matthew Stuart and Josh Lepawsky, I refined my theoretical approach to my select materials, paper, and its underlying systems and steered my practical steps forward. For better accessibility, please the alternative version below.
