Plasticity
Clara Chow Khoi Rong | Mentor: Eva Castro & Federico Ruberto
Many of the world’s coasts are becoming increasingly urban, with two-fifths of cities with populations of millions located near coastlines. Coastal settlements have always been attractive due to its provision of critical inputs to industries , despite the many threats — floods, typhoons tsunamis etc. it brings. With the South-east Asian market expected to become the 5th largest economy by 2020, migration from rural to urban areas is set to increase, putting a strain on existing infrastructures within the cities. One of which is the solid waste disposal and recycling infrastructures within these SEA’s developing nations.Currently in the age of the Anthropocene, it is clear that man has greatly shaped the Earth, bending Nature into the course of our wishes. We terraform the land with our landfills, mines and patchwork agri-culture fields, choke the atmosphere with our toxic emissions and clog the seas with our plastic wastes. Inadequate waste disposal management has resulted in poorly managed landfills with waste being washed into waters during the rainy seasons, jeopardizing the environment and local communities (typically the most vulnerable) that depend on it. This project hopes to explore the nature of plastics, by envisioning a “machinic landscape” to harvest misplaced plastic resources in river networks, whilst creating a speculative infrastructural network that varies with environmental conditions (global warming, sea level).
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