Dark Matter: Dome City (closed) 95/25 bitumen, plastic locket

In 1960 Buckminster Fuller & Shoji Sadao wrote “There are persuasive arguments in favour of cities under single umbrella shells. Whether the economic advantages can overcome the antievolutionary inertias of large social bodies is, however, questionable… The established cities will probably not adopt the doming until environmental and other emergencies make it imperative. “

Dark Matter: Dome City (open) 95/25 bitumen, plastic locket

In 2014 Dubai announced it is building the first climate controlled city…

Dark Matter: Dome City (detail closed) 95/25 bitumen, plastic locket

To promote environmental awareness in 1970 cartoonist Walt Kelly’s character Pogo Possum faced clearing up the rubbish strewn Okefenokee Swamp where he lived.  While looking at the huge human made mess, he said, “We have met the enemy and he is us”.

Dark Matter: Dome City
(detail open) 95/25 bitumen, plastic locket

Dark Matter: Dome City is part of the ‘Assembly in a Box’ group exhibition, Whitstable Biennale Satellite 3-12 June, Whitstable, UK. http://www.whitstablebiennale.com/programme/open-call-2016/