Ann Xinyue Wu
[De]colonisation of the environment
Ever since colonisation, Anglophone capitalism has pillaged natural environments and commoditised its resources in the interest of profit. The exploitation based on over-extraction of material has resulted in devastating consequences that have escalated over the decades.
Even till today, the colonial attitude still exists in how we mistreat the landscape as if we are not dependent on it. We grant ourselves permission in shaping the environment. Only have our appetite for resource extraction become more insatiable.
Current economic models rely heavily on mining and other resource-intensive fields. The aftermath of this economic modus operandi is rapidly escalating out of control. The ethics and environmental and social ramifications in relation to the on-going destruction will be interrogated by the thesis.
The thesis investigates the possibility of architecture acting as an agent that prophecies a cautionary future tale through the implication of immersive space. The design of such space will be informed by elements that materialised the issues of the Anthropocene age through form, aesthetic, and material.
