A matter of autonomy?

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A matter of autonomy?

Published on Oct 19, 2018

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This fiction explores the logic behind autarkies. Rural and remote autarkies have always been linked to counterculture and resistance, but this speculative fiction focuses instead on an autarkic community in the middle of the city. In this context, a paradoxical tension arises between an environment of advanced technology, the desire for hands-on self-sufficiency, and the complex global system that shapes the development of local networks. As technologies of communication redefine the way we interact as individuals, they also allow us to rethink the construction of our communities, while technologies of automation enable new scales of growth. Is autonomy a status to be acquired or an attitude to be maintained? Recognising that dependency is an inevitable quality of our interconnected society, this thesis instead looks at design as a tool to democratise knowledge and reveal the embedded logic of infrastructure—a tool to revive the investigative and experimental spirit within each individual.

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