Bloom

Bloom

architecture, cli-fi, filmmaking, worldbuilding

SCI-Arc - Vertical Studio 3GAX - Fall 2023

Our story engages with the infrastructural sublime at the planetary scale and explores themes of anthropogenic mass-migration, adaptation, resilience, cultural celebration, and optimism. In speculating on a future of humankind, the ocean will be leveraged for its carbon-sinking potential. It will take 40 billion square feet of phytoplankton farming in six-hundred and forty city-sized floating nodes to reverse generations of destruction of our planet. Our story brings us to just one node and the memory of just one child, building a new home..

SITE: The World’s Oceans

PROGRAM: Geoengineering Platform V-22

INSTRUCTOR: Jennifer Chen

PARTNERS: Kaustubh Kulkarni & Fang Shu