Digital Ecologies: Contamination

^{Third year undergradute design studio / 2013, The University of Edinburgh
Lead Instructor: Pierre Forissier 
Images 1-6: James Ness, Peter White, Jamie Wilson; Images 7-10: Levent Ozruh}


This studio explored the dynamic between digital registration of environmental (Big) data remotely and physical registration of environmental (small) data on site. Students designed remediative landscapes in Dalgety Bay, Scotland, a site contaminated by radioactive material washed ashore from WWII aircraft instrument panels buried at sea. A series of analog, digital and hybrid models merged big data/small data sensibilities, treating the site as a vast, calibrated remediative machine.