Imagine
that you are on a rock that is rotating at 652mph and travelling through space
at 67,000mph. Imagine that this rock is 4.54 million years old, has a mass of
5.9 x 1018 tonnes and is home to 8.7 billion different species.
Imagine that you are located somewhere
on that rock within an area of 610 sq miles that is home to 13 million of the
rocks most advanced species.
Imagine
that your specific location enables you to move freely for over 21 miles at a
maximum speed of 50mph and potentially brings you into contact with 192,000 of
these advanced life forms every day.
Imagine
that you are asked to analyse and record that location with respect to movement,
space, and time.
Imagine
that you can slow time down or speed it up, or even stop it completely: that you
can travel forwards or backwards in time, or create endless loops of
time.
Imagine
that you select a specific part of that location and propose an intervention
that constitutes a ‘Time Machine’.
Imagine
that within your ‘Time Machine’ you have the capacity to construct spatial
narratives that inherently communicate your values as a designer.
