SuperReuse

‘Our Glance lingers over the debris of triumphal arch, a portico, a pyramid, a temple, a palace, and we retreat into ourselves; we contemplate the ravages of our time and in our imagination we scatter the rubble of the very buildings in which we live over the ground: In that moment solitude and silence prevail around us, we are the sole survivors of an entire nation that is no more. Such is the first tenet of the poetics of ruins…’ Denis Diderot. The Salon 1767.

Reuse is concerned with the exploration and adaptationof matter that can be considered, outdated, redundant orobsolete: material that has lost its value, resources thatare considered waste, stuff that is considered expendableand has been discarded and is surplus. These processesof depredation may have been enacted througheconomic, value-based processes, or by extraordinaryone-off means.

All situations have in common the proposition that an obsolete environment, object or element, is not only a site of depredation, it is a condition for mediation, and the site of the enactment of research and design processes that will ensure that meaningful