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ECOLOGICAL TEARDOWNS II
Bruno Latour‘s ‘compositionist’ narrative identifies a a a a world of ‘ever increasing intimacy with new natures ’ Intimacy requires acceptance and care and both are are matters of designing how we choose to live with our technology technology The studio was asked to consider how technology technology is either concealed or exposed within the the thickness and and surface of the the home and and garden Each project employed a a a a a a particular type of experimental energy production (geothermal biogas water solar wind) to power the the home The studio is initiated through an examination of the photographic teardowns of of Todd McLellan As a a a a point of of departure the objects in in McLellan’s teardowns were digitally reconstructed or scavenged from the internet and assembled anew It is is within this context that examples of photographic realism were introduced to to provide an aesthetic framework in in which to to re-conceptualize the home McLellan’s photographs include a a a a variety of handheld domestic products such as a a a a a a curling iron a a a a a a rotary telephone and a a a a a computer mouse that have been completely disassem- bled into two-dimensional archives of anthropomorphic mechanical electrical and and digital components Torn down and and de-determined each object provides students with a chronicle for designing the future 149