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Gross Domestic Practices
Exhibition
September 6 - 22, 2023
BEB Gallery, RISD Architecture
Providence RI
Public talk & closing reception September 21, 2023
Supported by RISD Architecture Design Research Seed Fund
2022-23
Gross Domestic Practices
Exhibition
September 6 - 22, 2023
BEB Gallery, RISD Architecture
Providence RI
Public talk & closing reception September 21, 2023
Supported by RISD Architecture Design Research Seed Fund
2022-23
The built environment is a site of material exchange; a potential urban mine. Brick, stone, wood, metal, and even excavated soil on construction and demolition (C&D) sites are literally matter out of place — situated somewhere between building and debris, awaiting future harvest.
C&D waste is in fact routinely salvaged, transported, sorted, cleaned, labeled, stored, and recombined for future recirculation. Such laborious local practices exceed the scopes and budgets of construction, yet are crucial in taking stock of an industry overwhelmed by extraction.
Construction has long been known as a growth industry, where material expenditure is geared towards ever greater Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We offer another definition: gross domestic practices (gdp), a total-practice approach that recognizes building maintenance, waste work, eco-services, social relations, and the material limits of growth. gdp stands for a post-extraction world where product is not the key economic driver, but rather, local processes that support the continual unmaking and remaking of the built environment.
A collaboration between Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara and Christine Giorgio. Past related projects include Planetary Home Improvement. Exhibition photos by Tam Stockton.
C&D waste is in fact routinely salvaged, transported, sorted, cleaned, labeled, stored, and recombined for future recirculation. Such laborious local practices exceed the scopes and budgets of construction, yet are crucial in taking stock of an industry overwhelmed by extraction.
Construction has long been known as a growth industry, where material expenditure is geared towards ever greater Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We offer another definition: gross domestic practices (gdp), a total-practice approach that recognizes building maintenance, waste work, eco-services, social relations, and the material limits of growth. gdp stands for a post-extraction world where product is not the key economic driver, but rather, local processes that support the continual unmaking and remaking of the built environment.
A collaboration between Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara and Christine Giorgio. Past related projects include Planetary Home Improvement. Exhibition photos by Tam Stockton.
