STUDENT
Ranya Liu
PROFESSOR
Dawn Gilpin
After centuries of human colonization, the Earth, with its retaliatory natural disasters and climate, forces humanity to challenge its domesticity. Through three exchange spaces – for food, mail, and balloting – the Belle Isle Sorting Exchange feralizes our daily domestic practices and deconstructs the architectural elements that stage them. Food is foraged, mail becomes a trade of cultural artifacts, and balloting is ritualized, the impersonal ballot replaced with a surrendering of personal items to a collective archive. In an increasingly capitalist and mechanized present, the project envisions a future where materials and manual craftsmanship are valued, and a reciprocal relationship with the land is nurtured.