The theory behind this project comes from the word Entropy. Entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder. It is how chaos leads to decay. The city is entropic; it strays from nature to such a degree that it is shrouded in ordered disorder, machine-like it pumps out a branded, grey world of churning disarray. From this comes deterioration – gentrification, ruination, crime, destruction. As we stray from nature we stray from life.
Using three locations of London to illustrate 3 stages of entropy – life, chaos and decay – this multimodal project illustrates the city as a perfect example of this metaphor.
Life – London’s Exurbia | Chaos – London Bridge | Decay – New Cross
This project is a conceptual way of getting people to look at what they do not see, what they pass each day but do not recognise as entropy and the decay of our world; the unnaturalness of skyscrapers, the mechanical rhythm of the metropolis. Blending the objective and subjective to highlight powers that belittle us and turn us into the very machines I mention.
”The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.”
– Georg Simmel