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Name
Camilla Marrese + Gabriel Chiapparini
Title ︎︎︎ Thinking Like an Island
The Island is distant in the Mediterranean sea. It’s inhabited by an uncertain number of 30 to 90 people, with no hospital, no cars, no priests. Some islanders have never consider leaving, while some tried to leave, only to return to their lives in their remote, isolated community. There are untold stories, complex family trees, and surreal lore surrounding the community existing on loaves of LSD-laced bread.
Thinking like an Island is a reflection on a geographical, social and temporal space, on a system and its moveable logic. Avoiding the typical representation of an island as utopia or dystopia, this work looks at the continuous process of identity construction; clash and coexistence, choice and confinement, innovation and resistance.
As our economic and social systems prove less sustainable, we ask if the island, oblivious to the outer world, where everything is reduced to minimum necessity, could be an idealistic model for surviving the crises that engulfs us.
Including diary extracts from the authors, quotes from residents of the island and photographs of the mysterious landscapes, the book takes a poetic yet philosophical approach to comprehending the crises of the world through the perspective of a hermetic microcosm.
Thinking like an Island is a reflection on a geographical, social and temporal space, on a system and its moveable logic. Avoiding the typical representation of an island as utopia or dystopia, this work looks at the continuous process of identity construction; clash and coexistence, choice and confinement, innovation and resistance.
As our economic and social systems prove less sustainable, we ask if the island, oblivious to the outer world, where everything is reduced to minimum necessity, could be an idealistic model for surviving the crises that engulfs us.
Including diary extracts from the authors, quotes from residents of the island and photographs of the mysterious landscapes, the book takes a poetic yet philosophical approach to comprehending the crises of the world through the perspective of a hermetic microcosm.
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