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The Book of Latent Promises is a collective project that explores forms of documentary and social dissent. The project is centered on sustainable printing where the content is created by transferring the surfaces from the rubble of the Haitian earthquake of 2010 onto handmade paper made from recycled paper found in the city. “The Book of Latent Promises” starts by exploring forms of doing artisanal...

The Investigative Institute of Informality (iii) is a transnational initiative researching the various manifestations, structures, and perceptions of informality.  Informality, as defined by iii,  is comprised of the socio-economic activities and relationships that operate outside of the regulation and protection of legally recognized institutions. This social para-space contains both countless grass-roots innovations and a systemic, infrastructural void which drives informal operators to generate new means...

During the process of the WHY project, we investigated the nature of urban habitation by mapping the city’s informal infrastructure. Among the more intriguing elements we documented were newspaper boxes spread throughout the city, with media contents catering to different community demographics. These boxes remain peripheral fixtures until someone’s desire transforms them into necessary destinations. The USE project attempts to expand the utility of newspaper...

The Modular Engagement Transporter (M.E.T.) is modeled on the NASA Modular Equipment Transporter used on the Apollo Moon missions to document the surface of the Moon. The M.E.T., referred to as the “rickshaw” by the astronauts, was a cart outfitted with pneumatic tires that carried geological tools, cameras, and sample cases on the lunar surface. Floating Lab Collective recreated the M.E.T. to contain a variety...

Re-animation House was a project consisting of a series of workshops culminating in an exhibition centered around the theme of ‘home’. Taking place in the Bronx, New York and supported by Casita Maria, these workshops centered around recreating early cinematic devices with off-the-shelf materials. These devices were used as an entry-point for a dialogue about home and place with several children involved in the Casita Maria program. Based...

The Collective White House A New Contract for the Americas external link: www.collectivewhitehouse.org A New Contract for the Americas Medellin, Colombia – 9.1.2011 (n.) A collectively made structure depicting the White House fabricated from used bed sheets donated from local hotels. Bed sheets represent the transitory, highly mobile nature of modern life and contain traces of human existence, as did the Shroud of Turin. Throughout...

Scream at the Economys a participatory project which invites people to call a phone number and scream at the economy. We want to utilize the scream as a primary accessible interface but also as an instinctive survival expression, as a warning of danger, and through considering the historical context and implications of the “Scream” in art history (such as in Munch’s painting) that have become...

Collective Objects are a series of diagrams exploring the possibilities of collectivism in the act of consumption of objects that are already in existence in our material landscape. The sketches are meant to be sent to the respective companies, where FLC hopes to enter into a dialogue with the fabricators to expand the notion of what and how we consume....