Keeping up with the Joneses gets tough when they’ve got a homes that grant them eternal life. According to the architecture-poetry due Arakawa & Gins, mortality happens because people live in spaces that are too comfortable. Their solution? Abodes that leave people disoriented, alert, challenged and active, enabling them to ‘counteract the usual human destiny of having to die.’
Identifying their work with the transhumanist movement, the couple’s Architectural Body Research Foundation sees them collaborate with practitioners in disciplines as wide-ranging as quantum physics, experimental biology, neuroscience, phenomenology and medicine. Their architectural projects have included residences (several Reversible Destiny Houses), parks (including the Site of Reversible Destiny) and plans for neighbourhoods (Isles of Reversible Destiny).
From March 12-26, Queensland’s Griffith University is hosting the third international Arakawa & Gins conference, Architecture and Philosophy, taking place entirely online with video presentations and live streams. Registration is free and topics include Art & Architecture; Translation; Life, Science and Medicine; and Philosophy & Linguistics.
Did you hear they lost all their money to Madoff? So sad…
Comment by Emily Anderson — April 17, 2010 @ 1:38 am