PROTOTYPES TOWARDS A SYMBIOTIC PLACEMAKING THERAPY

A look at some of the tools developed in the Crafting Places Of Wellbeing Project

PROTOTYPE 1: The Embodied Lens and Material Mindfulness at The Severed Hand

During a week long workshop with the architecture collective Assemble I ran an engagement in tandem with my fellow participants.

The Severed Hand workshop was an experiment in material-social communication. Through-out it we were attempting to understand how the limitations and potentialities of a given material lays the foundations for the language used to describe and work with it.

My engagement was designed to help participants reflect on the embodied agency we were developing as our understanding of material processes and relations grew. By reorienting vision to the tip of the subjects finger, the point of material contact becomes our sensory resting zone, an ideal location from which to interogate the material lineage of an object.

PROTOTYPE 2: Social Joinery and Source Energy

The Creation of open ended mechanisms powered by natural means and situated in a place with frequent footfall. It was built with the help of my research assistant JS a member of the Moray Wellbeing Hub.

This laser cut ply and dowel water wheel is lightweight and easy to assemble. Meaning it can translate the force of streams and rivers into a rotary machinic moment at the drop of a hat. The output plate is circular 12mm ply with 6 12mm holes. Workshops can be facilitated in which participants create their own water powered mechanisms.

PROTOTYPE 3: Panopticanopy: The Interspecies Drama

Unorthadox soap opera series staring living systems at vastly different scales.
In Episode One Desiree the Leopard Slug quits their job to become a sentient node in a planeray scale computational intellegence structure. Much to the dismay of a journeyman who has been travelling for months in a bid to exploit Desiree’s power.

Jack Elliot Cardno