4rd YEAR STUDIO PROJECT
The Colossai are a collection of beings which
interact with each other, in spite of the humans
which mill about beneath them. They are driven
to movement by complex relationships between
individual Colossai similar to sentient emotional
relationships, both positive and negative. The
Colossai move at a time-scale much greater than
that of humans. Over the course of months
individuals will move toward their friend/lover
and away from their foes creating a public space
that dynamically changes week by week.
They will be bothersome at times. At times they
will align to allow for opportunistic activities:
movie nights in the square, urban playgrounds,
concerts and festivals. This denial/reward scheme
will contribute to serendipitous joyful moments
and will cause urbanites to reconsider their
hierarchal relationship with the city.
34 |
Colossai seeks to challen ge the hierarchial
relationship between urbanites and their domain.
It proposes that the sense of wonderment children
experience stems from a subservient relationship
to the world. As adults in an urban environment,
we assert that we are masters of our domain,
served by invisible systems and infrastructures
that often are only apparent when they fail and we
are slightly inconvenienced by traffic congestion
or a brief blackout. Colossai proposes a class
of being above us, bringing us in to tension
with our conditioned surroundings and causing
us to redefine our relationships with the built
environment.
COLOSSAI
COLOSSAI