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Subtraction, removal and disposal as growth.

Editorial


Like buildings, people's presence can be very toxic and therefore destroy their surroundings. By borrowing the idea of subtraction of buildings, the process of unbuilding and erasing, and if we compare it with people and their behaviour, an analogy can arguably be formed between the disposal and removal of buildings with the process people go through to make use of their own reason.

By refusing to accept the given as given, one submits oneself to a process of detachment from the conventional society and any given social behaviours. It is by doing so that one unbuilds one's perception of things, going through a process of erasure and negation only to experience a process of (re)construction, a process of subtraction in which itself becomes addition and thus growth.

This project combines a selection of writings written over a period of 6 months for Exhibition Studies and Critical Graphic Design Theories.

Subtraction, removal and disposal as growth.
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Subtraction, removal and disposal as growth.

Building Subtraction, notion borrowed from Keller Easterling, in relation to people

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