The 2-week long summer studio aimed at widening our horizons of imagination. The brief was inspired by "Futuredays : A nineteenth century vision of the year 2000" by the French artist Jean Marc Cote, to imagine what transportation could be like in the future.
To imagine travel in the future, I looked at my journey from Delhi to London for this summer school. This was the first time I was travelling abroad, and alone. I started with making a mind map of my journey, from the moment I stepped out of my house till I stepped into my hostel in London, it was a myriad of emotions and stories. It was moments of chaos, moments of waiting in quiet reflection. But within each moment was a story being told.
In the current context of hyper rapid-urbanization and fast-paced production, along with technological advancements and the obsession for maximum comfort, it wasn't hard for me to imagine the future of travel a century from now, where this would lead to an automated system of pods that are connected worldwide through these monolithic structures covering cities.
The idea was to showcase an ironic and critical view of where we as a society are headed where something as personal as travel becomes another human experience that we turn into an almost mechanical, automated practice, and the notion of journey and the experience of travel is completely diminished, echoing the bigger loss of human narrative being taken over by the mechanical and digital.
