Uncharted
By looking at imagery metadata, interviews, meeting minutes of space treaties, and technological failures, Uncharted is an ongoing research inquiry into the rhetoric of the contemporary globe—and by what mechanisms it came to be.
As first output of this ongoing research project, Studio Folder designed an installation, exhibited at the After Belonging - Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. I joined the studio few weeks before the exposition and had the chance to work mainly on one of the two parts of the installation: the concept and design of the table informative structure and content.
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Table design
The table is the surface where the project is explained in its various parts and themes.
It is composed by three main areas:
Sensing - is the part in which a timeline explains the scheme of spheres disposed in front of the table.
Processing - offers a catalogue of the anomalies, fractures, and aberrations of the satellite imagery mosaic.
Rendering - by a series of three solids, we recreated the structure of the remote sensing apparatus, as satellites record different areas of the ground at different altitudes.
Credits
Research and design: Folder (Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, Alessandro Busi, Aaron Gillett, Pietro Leoni, Francesca Lucchitta, Giovanni Pignoni, Mariasilvia Poltronieri)
Design and production: Folder and Gisto (Alessandro Mason)
Special thanks to Giovanni De Francesco and Mattia Balsamini.
