#situatedknowledge

Radical Constructivism - Radical constructivism puts the individual’s interactions, interpretations, and equilibrations with all externalities at the center of knowledge construction. This theory of learning has implications for the nature of reality; an objective reality cannot come to be known, so positivist and post positivist positions are untenable.

Apologizing for the impetuous irruption in the landscape. mask, performance, video Groppo di Riomaggiore, 30 November 2020 The action started around one hour before the sunset, and ended with the rst coming darkness. For the action I created two Camouflaged View-Finder, procedural artefacts made out of the most present plants in the wild elds: Erica and Thorn Blackberry.

By making these prototypes I studied the materiality of the plants that grow more around Cinque Terre when nobody shows up and the soil decides for itself. I challenged the exibility of the little final branches of Erica, covered with little green needle-shaped leaves which easily fall when the branch is not attached anymore to the trunk. Therefore, the robustness of my skin was tested by the spines of the Blackberry while I tried to arrange the spiky branches in a rounded shape. The intention behind these artefacts was to enact a mimesis with the environment and so try to enter smoothly in a metamorphosis from a human body into part of the landscape.

My house consists of two females, two males, and one dog. This is the communal toilets that everyone in my family use, including my dog, whose water is found here.

So this is my toilet

It’s one of three

That everybody can use

In the morning from 7:30 to 8:30 the sun streams in and heats the toilet seat up, like a natural heater. 

My toilet is designed and manufactured by a company called Caroma. The company was established in 1941 and introduced the first dual flush system. The tiny orange label is situated at the center of the toilet bowl. The person who made the toilet is unknown to me, however the company manufactures are outside of Australia. This highlights that I have become dematerialized form the process of who is making toilets, and what materials were used. I have become dematerialized from the process even though this product is central to my livelihood.

Multihabitar research project

Some time ago we became interested in Mediterranean reed (cane) as a construction material and we learned some of the techniques in different workshops. Since then we have sought other ways to build using this material, which is so common in the (spanish) Levant by their abundance and accessibility. While we research other construction techniques with grasses such as bamboo, one of our main investigations was focused on developing a Mediterranean cane module covered with mud. To do this we built this weaving loom that streamlines the reeds weave and helps us to imagine new modules. We did it thanks to the knowledge of Pepe Cabrera, a reed artisan. We have created the following reed pergola to generate a shadow in a courtyard of a house.