Colorblind

JJ Gibson, an American psychologist, author of the theory of affordance in the mid 20th century, dubs the noun affordance as what pertains to the environment providing the opportunity for action. Through urbanization, the natural environment is changing into more cities like Newburgh. What does the city afford animals and plants? This project designs its way through greywater, food waste and material waste, and reintegrates them into the dominant landscape.
The drawing is titled “Colorblind.” The drawing takes the libertarian ideology of the project into the world of architecture and aesthetics. Humans, animals, and plants inhabiting the installation are drawn with the same colors and techniques to reverse the human-centric perspective on architectural production. Humans cease to exploit the environment- an apple is not only sweet, a tulip is not only beautiful, a dog is not only pet, a pig is not only livestock, a bee is not only honey.