Clinic Terra
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Clinic Terra operates as a speculative institution that reframes cities as post-operative landscapes, where ecology, culture, and infrastructure are irreversibly entangled through human intervention. Through architectural worldbuilding and investigative design, it examines questions of care, responsibility, and coexistence within contemporary urban environments.
Clinic Terra, adopts a clinical, analytical lens, examining nature through a distant, utilitarian perspective. Set in a future where natural systems have collapsed, the objects in the clinic are conceived as future fossils: a material archive that stores the imprints of human intervention. Excavation, extraction, building, unbuilding, and infrastructural expansion leave lasting marks on geological bodies, altering the conditions of life for human and non-human entities alike.
In the clinic the nature is looked at through an utilitarian, distant and analytical lens. Produced within Clinic Terra, the animated essay asks whether urban ecological systems can still be reconfigured as spaces of care and coexistence or whether they are already recording the material evidence of inevitable urban collapse.