Museo-Capsule
Spring 2020 | Honors Research Studio | The Ohio State University
Instructors: Sandhya Kochar and Dow Kimbrell
In Collaboration With Wyatt Meade, Alex Warner, and Maryan Warsame
The time capsule has been used for centuries as a way to preserve and revisit a memory, artifact, or aspect of daily life. But what if the role of the time capsule can change? What if it no longer acts as a container of artifacts but becomes the artifact itself? Museo-capsules take on this new role.
Not characterized by a single industrial quality, Museo-capsules sample, archive, and exhibit multiple aesthetics from the industrial landscape. While the technological developments of the first machine age are slowly being replaced in favor of clean energy sources and technologies, their industrial aesthetic qualities are worth preserving. Museo-capsules redeploy the often overlooked industrial material aesthetics to create new forms and compositions, stripping them of their contextual program. The Museo-capsule uses these aesthetics while giving autonomy to the new compositions. The result is a crafted catalog of design and experiences that can be accessed in the future.
