How to connect entire continents, when there is no political plan in place, no social foresight, no local economy on the rise? Architecture here—engineering, imagination, design—is forced to fill the breach, stepping in where other attempts at dialogue (and deliberate isolation) have failed.
Postcard #1. [top image] The idea that a future crossing between continents might consist of nothing but the discarded hulls of old supertankers is perhaps unnecessarily cynical, unless we consider that we could all be tourists—or is it spelunkers?—of the boundary line, walking the ruins of dead ships, misaligned with the horizon, its own nation-state of the abandoned, housing those who have been abandoned by nation-states. Perhaps the wreckage of this world will be the very thing that connects us in the next.
Architecture here—engineering, imagination, design—is forced to fill the breach, stepping in where other attempts at dialogue (and deliberate isolation) have failed.
