FIELDS OF ENTANGLEMENT: Rethinking our relationships through the re-adaption of an industrial precinct

This project uses an industrial precinct in Altona North as a proxy for a wider change in how we might place ourselves within a system of living things. Using unitary understandings, the project seeks to entangle culture, nature and technology.

Dualistic ideologies, that posit human culture as being separate from nature have dominated western thinking for hundreds of years. Our current cities and the way we inhabit the world are a direct and physical manifestation of these ideologies. Climate change and the destruction of the environment are the results of our dualistic cultural understanding.

This project aims to embed unitary understandings of nature, culture, and technology into our cities. Through the architecture, boundaries can be blurred, and distinctions vanish, leaving only a complex series of relationships and adjacencies. In this way, we can shift our understandings of our place in the world to one that encompasses a wider territory.