The Mine of Humanism

Designing a Decentralized, Human-Centric, Self-Sustaining Community

in Response to the Technological Singularity

Context Overview

A speculative project was developed in response to the ongoing discussions raised by numerous futurists and technologists on the theoretical point called the technological singularity. The narratives are established from the perspective of a character escaping the city, tending towards the singularity.

The vision is to resettle a new community that speaks against technological centralization. The design brings the idea of decentralization to an extreme by decentralizing the very notion of time. The result is not a complete disassociation from all kinds of technology- as long as it is within the boundary of human control. Since mining was one of the early operations that sparked the industrial revolution, the new community was built on an abandoned mine settlement to invert the conventional notion of a technological revolution.

Community tower exploded axo, 594 x 841 mm

Central Processing Tower, 594 x 841 mm

Components, 594 x 841 mm

film stills