Automated Landscapes
Triennale di Milano/
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Contributor*
February—July, 2019
Triennale di Milano/
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Contributor*
February—July, 2019
Automation, and the 24-hour, 365-day production cycle it enables, disrupts labour markets and the configuration, design and occupation of entire territories. This collaborative research looks at the greenhouses that occupy vast parts of the country, and where the productivity of the ground is controlled and maximised by automated technologies. In their interiors flowers and fruits grow assisted by climate control, artificial lighting, and water and nutrient distribution systems. This data-filled garden reveals itself to the outside world in the screens of the control rooms and smartphones through which operations are monitored, as well as through the colossal photo-pollution generated by greenhouse emissions.
*with Marten Kuijpers. Contribution to exhibition I See That I See What You Don't See curated by Angela Rui, Marina Otero Verzier, and Francien van Westrenen. Photos by Johannes Schwartz.
