_thinkMake (Spatial Design Practices: Situated Ecologies) - Theorial T h i n g

The next action was started by following through a reading called “Vibrant Matter” a political ecology of things by Jane Bannet. 

We had to collect five things from the sites we had visited and propose a FORCE OF THINGS which we made by using different methods of combining them based on the theory of Jane Bennet, which she believes that matter is passive and inert, instead proposing that nonhuman materials can exhibit agency and force.

I started choosing my things to be in diverse material between natural and man-made which are a can, a rustling dry leaf, a stone, a pine cone and a piece of wood branch that I got from victoria park and there is a contrast of textures in between them as well.

And then I tried to find methods of combination between them with the verbs we were given such as interlocking the branch into the can and screwing that into the cone.

Then I started nailing the two sticks and and hang the dry leaves into a wire and strapped the stick into glued stone with a rope. 

You can see the difference levels of connections through heights and how they become one thing even what we consider inanimate has a form of vitality. and tied into it. 

You can see the difference levels of connenctions through heights and how they become one thing even what we consider inanimate has a form of vitality.