This series explores how proclivities for technological, human and societal improvement can result in speculative objects that explore solution desire: the act of problem-solving with the objective being an ultimate, perfect outcome. However, humans perpetual need for advancement often introduces its own inimitable issues. Therefore, this approach merely seeks to explore how liminal proposals can function as subjective responses. 3D software is utilised to create prophetic prototypes inferring that tangible counterparts are yet to exist. Animation, orthographic renders, close up stills and audio seek to explore the object, its construction, its ambiguously plausible function, suggested corporeal interaction, and how this may allude its attributed context and value systems. 

 

Enduring industrial objects; tanks, pumps, bolts, nuts, pipes and chairs; are combined with created and pre-existing digital elements, transposing them into unfamiliar configurations referencing concepts of the readymade and assemblage. This innovation and metamorphosis assesses and re-interprets seemingly disparate information and what is necessary from the past while embracing new technologies to create progressive futures. 

 

This work collates information from known notions of reality; topical issues, scientific journals, automotive textbooks and science fiction, with notions of plausibility and speculation. The resulting mixed reality begins to question the spectrum between the binaries of fact, fiction; scientific, spectacle; object, architecture, past, future; and how selective aspects of constructivism and critical design call to question how objects of ‘modern’ life can prognosticate and evaluate future trajectories. 

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The installation comprised of 3 moving image works and audio. The installation took place at Whitecliffe college mid-year exhibition in 2020.