Hypothetical monday
Speculative writing and illustrations (2022)
riso illustration poscards fiction cityscape
What if we were in a future where we collectively decided that an economic system based on others’ exploitation is no longer an option? What if, instead of being erased, former symbolic places of consumerism would be turned into new commons, places for being, resting, playing?
This speculative project does not look at ruins as a symbol of destruction and chaos, but as an opener of possibilities. Ruins of the old world become a passage toward renewed forms of living together, and a trace of what has finally been left behind.
This project takes the shape of riso-printed postcards, displaying illustrations and fiction stories, fragments from a hypothetical everyday.
To Go Further
— Failed Architecture, “Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need,” Failed Architecture (blog), accessed December 1, 2020, https://failedarchitecture.com/maybe-modern-ruins-are-just-the-kind-of-failure-we-need/
— Marielle Macé, Nos cabanes, La petite jaune (Lagrasse: Verdier, 2019); Lefebvre, Le droit à la ville (Paris: Economica : Anthropos, 2009)
— Tom McDonough, ed., The Situationists and the City (London; New York: Verso, 2009);
— Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett, Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City, ed. Leo Hollis (London; New York: Verso, 2020).