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AMAL.GAM I
ritual,space,species
The function of
rituals lies within the internal constitution of a society. It gives the
members confidence, it dispels their anxieties, it disciplines their social
organization. Amalgam is a research unit, which focuses on the transformation
of rituals, traditions and ceremonies into Design Tools and overlapping them
with Biotic Environments and Multispecies - Ethnographic studies. It extends
ideas into the realms of mass media, pseudonyms, technology, life science and
the deceptively far yet radically foreign “Primitive Society of the Future”.
Such an environment gives our studio the chance to design new constructed
entities, using space produced by rituals, favoring the relationship between
humans and species, inhabitants and territories - a proposal for an
architecture of a present not yet present but no longer future
The semester is
structured in two phases, Biotope / Ritual Studies and Biotic Prototyping and
Fabrication driven by the themes of narration via storyboard, large-scale
drawings, models and prototypes. The first studio phase will be related to the
construction of a fictional character/Alter-Ego and its environment, framing
the hypothetical context for the ritual