Carlos Matallana
Tridimensionals • Housing beliefs (work on progress since 2017)
Housing beliefs
Kleptocracy, Caste society and Early Tribal society
Motto
Democracy is a proven sturdy formula that needs a continuous expansion to prove itself worthy. The expansion implies a constant negotiation with local existing government systems that somehow generate hybrid political systems with a democratic glow that distracts us from preexisting fissures. The doctrine adapts while expanding to local culture, absorbs it and regurgitates it with a local set of codes that feels native and natural to the new social environment.
Today the term Democracy as we know it is being challenged by big government hybrids that aim to replace slowly the legislature, executive, and judiciary institutions that prevent concentration of power.
What does AI, Kleptocracy, and Corporatocracy have in common? What is their future in our current political shifting? Where can we see their influence in our everyday life? Would they become the next checks and balances for Governments?
These rather complex topics and theorization fueled a series of folding paper exercises –inspired in the Kirigami– aiming to accommodate these evolving concepts that are hard to visualize.
The first drafts explored Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy and AI, as products of a Democracy based on the three branches of checks and balances.
In 2018 I was invited to elaborate a couple of pieces for the collective exhibition Living Architecture. In these particular pieces I explored Socialism and Communism, along Capitalism and Monarchy in order to revisit the well defined origins of the current political polarity in the western world.
These designs rely on architecture scale models to portray the most common features of these social movements.
Living Architecture
Communism and Socialism. Photos by Paul Crisanti and Jesse Meredith.
Capitalism and Monarchy. Photos by Paul Crisanti and Jesse Meredith.