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Viviane El Kmati, Yara Feghali

FollyFeastLab

https://follyfeastlab.com/

1221 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Viviane is a creative technologist working at the intersection of design, technology and speculative fiction. With her background in architecture and worldbuilding, she prototypes the future of urban spaces using artificial intelligence and storytelling techniques.Yara is a French architect licensed in Beirut, and a lecturer at UCLA AUD in design and research. Her work interrogates the territories of architectural education,and speculates on the role of emerging technologies in designing cities.

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Mediterranean Sea Diaries


On the afterlife of overproduction

Mediterranean Sea Diaries


On the afterlife of overproduction
Mediterranean Sea Diaries is an interactive documentary about Anthropocene’s costal repercussions.
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  • New alliances

Mediterranean Sea Diaries is an interactive documentary about the Anthropocene’s repercussions on the coast. Our research and design project imagines the future of post-human spaces like landfills and e-waste lands as a result of overproduction. Using the same artificial intelligence code that organizes logistics infrastructure, these spaces are generated as a cautionary tale of the Mediterranean coast near future. These spaces are based on recent events around the politics of waste management leading Lebanon to dump its waste in the Mediterranean Sea. It is crucial to address the physical waste produced by this shift where factories overproduce and dump their rapidly outdated items in spaces around our cities. Through the eyes of surveillance drones, we watch Amal and her trained dogs roam around garbage searching for early versions of flip-phones that have become extremely valuable due to their impossibility of being tracked.



Mediterranean Sea Diaries


On the afterlife of overproduction

Mediterranean Sea Diaries


On the afterlife of overproduction
Mediterranean Sea Diaries is an interactive documentary about Anthropocene’s costal repercussions.
File under
Type of project
  • New alliances

Mediterranean Sea Diaries is an interactive documentary about the Anthropocene’s repercussions on the coast. Our research and design project imagines the future of post-human spaces like landfills and e-waste lands as a result of overproduction. Using the same artificial intelligence code that organizes logistics infrastructure, these spaces are generated as a cautionary tale of the Mediterranean coast near future. These spaces are based on recent events around the politics of waste management leading Lebanon to dump its waste in the Mediterranean Sea. It is crucial to address the physical waste produced by this shift where factories overproduce and dump their rapidly outdated items in spaces around our cities. Through the eyes of surveillance drones, we watch Amal and her trained dogs roam around garbage searching for early versions of flip-phones that have become extremely valuable due to their impossibility of being tracked.




Idea by

Viviane El Kmati, Yara Feghali
FollyFeastLab
1221 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA
United States of America
Viviane is a creative technologist working at the intersection of design, technology and speculative fiction. With her background in architecture and worldbuilding, she prototypes the future of urban spaces using artificial intelligence and storytelling techniques.Yara is a French architect licensed in Beirut, and a lecturer at UCLA AUD in design and research. Her work interrogates the territories of architectural education,and speculates on the role of emerging technologies in designing cities.