ABSTRACT
The centerpiece of our proposal was an installation on degrowth that comprised two floating rectangular planes inclined toward each other. The planes met at a shared short edge, as if forming a crease. The entire surface, which had a short lip along the periphery, formed a large tray of sorts that we proposed to cover with sand brought from the desert in UAE. The motion sensors on the ceiling detected the movement and an algorithm calculated a series of changes in the environment as a result. In 2018, my colleague and co-editor of this volume, Markus Berger, and I submitted a proposal for the United Arab Emirates pavilion at the Venice Architecture Bien-nale. The centerpiece of our proposal was an installation on degrowth that comprised two floating rectangular planes inclined toward each other. The planes met at a shared short edge, as if forming a crease.
