The artist book "Prototyping tenderness: A personal log of a dying world" is an autobiographical sublimation of a transdisciplinary insight into tenderness as a quality of a boundary between beings, systems, environments etc.
It is a speculative diary, set in a post-apocalyptic world, which documents the thoughts of a designer who attempts to grapple with their discipline which, while it has shaped the world, it has also participated in bringing on its end through the massive and unjust extraction, distribution and depletion of resources.
The book follows the designer as they begin to develop intimacy with soil and the two beings learn to love and care for each other.
Intercepted with thoughts and musings from theory, literature, art and past relationships, the book ends with a poetic description of relationships as our primary world-building tools.
It is a speculative diary, set in a post-apocalyptic world, which documents the thoughts of a designer who attempts to grapple with their discipline which, while it has shaped the world, it has also participated in bringing on its end through the massive and unjust extraction, distribution and depletion of resources.
The book follows the designer as they begin to develop intimacy with soil and the two beings learn to love and care for each other.
Intercepted with thoughts and musings from theory, literature, art and past relationships, the book ends with a poetic description of relationships as our primary world-building tools.
The reseach process aimed to offer a perspective on developing a design practice toward kinship, interdependence, and resurgence.
The installation “prototyping tenderness” consists of several elements, which were used as instruments in the research process.
1. Original handwritten notes and sketches;
2. A pile of earth;
3. A hemp rope;
4. The animation “Tvojta Taga” (Your Sorrow), shown on a screen;
5. The book “Prototyping Tenderness: A Personal Log of a Dying World”.
Order the book here
The installation “prototyping tenderness” consists of several elements, which were used as instruments in the research process.
1. Original handwritten notes and sketches;
2. A pile of earth;
3. A hemp rope;
4. The animation “Tvojta Taga” (Your Sorrow), shown on a screen;
5. The book “Prototyping Tenderness: A Personal Log of a Dying World”.
Order the book here