Plastic Spatial Machine (PSM) is an attempt to bring architectural design closer to a material condition which has become fundamental for understanding the conformation of our physical medium.
Plastic Spatial Machine
Design, fabrication, and spatial reconfiguration become a strategy to interrogate the relationships between the different material and social processes that gravitate around plastic.
View Article details
- 15 February 2016
- Mexico City
Since 1976, plastic, in its various shapes and forms, has become the most used material in the world. During 1979 the global economy entered what was officially known as the “plastic age” when its production exceeded the one of steel. Since then, our material reality has gone through an ongoing “plastification”.
More than a project, PSM is a material, spatial and social experiment. Design, fabrication, and spatial reconfiguration is combined as the strategy to interrogate the relationships between the different material and social processes that gravitate around plastic, its opportunities and consequences. It’s a combined effort to link alternative design methodologies with the activation of public spaces through a material reality that, to a great extent, frames our relation with our physical environment, our idea of materiality, ecological future and forms of social interaction. Design Decode festival worked as a frame for the intervention, with the intense participation of the public, it propelled PSM to become an agent to explore the capacity to configure and articulate our material reality nested in the collective.
Plastic Spatial Machine, Mexico City
Program: installation
Architects: Arturo Revilla and Ricardo Sosa
Coordination Decode: Alexiz del Toro and Jorge Diego Etienne
Conarte Monterrey: Laura Pacheco - Direccón CONARTE Nave Generadores, Carlos “Rito” Barrera, Vicente Flores, Humberto Cantú
Collaborators: Aaron Contreras, Alan Olivo, Alejandra Palacios, Andrea Garcia, Andrea Mendoza, Catalina de Leon, CynthiaPavolva, Cynthia Reyes, Daniela Armengual, Elisa Dominguez, Grace Cantú, Ignacio Woolfik, Jimena Rodriguez, Karen Aydee Martinez, Karen Yessenia Rdz, Karla Rebolledo, Laura Garza, Lorena Vargas, Magda M Theirot, Maria Santos, Martin Garcia, Matute Gomez, Melissa Vazquez, Pablo Lopez, Paco Chapa, Priscila Alanis, Rebeca Franco, Ricardo Aguilar, Tamara Chamut, Veronica Saldaña, Yael Escarzaga