THESIS
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers
The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics holds that there are many worlds which exist in parallel at the same space and time as our own. My ‘working thesis’ connects the methods through which indexing, collecting and archiving can shape the future – create many futures – and to me are a form of time travel and universe splitting, in the quantum sense.
My approach binds the orbis primus and orbis secondo together via the orbis tertius, the third world of animus and materia – read Karl Popper and Borges, or indulge in Alice in Wonderland.
For an “imagination accelerant”, I promote the work Giovanni Battista Piranesi (4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) an Italian classical archaeologist, architect and artist renowned for a revolutionary understanding of ancient history and highly imaginative studies of an alternative Urbes Roma, which include a series of prisons, the Carceri d’Invenzione. His drawings are fertile time capsules for architects and students of history.
The work in this volume “inhabits” his drawings. In opposition to the orthodox methodologies of architectural design in which a physical site is appropriated in the exclusively visceral world that we are always promoting as builders, my inverse approach, understood as part of the multiple world continuum, creates a freedom expression I loosely define as the “techno-imaginative”.
The collections fall into urban categories such as:
Domus, Polis, Bibliotheca, Hortus, Civica, Columbaria, Prata, etc.
As far as my reality as a “designer”, I've always felt like I was in bit of a dream state even when awake, and herein you see where my dreams take me when I'm sleeping. I live across multiple dimensions in some sort of quantum poem.
Where every thought produces a thing,
but not every thing has been thought.
Etymology
Niels Bohr
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges
“[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”
― Werner Heisenberg
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
― Basava, The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna