The second phase of the Imagining Recovery Project — designed in collaboration with Speedism, the architect duo of Pieterjan Ginckels & Julian Friedauer — tests the speed of recovery, a period wherein ideas cycle through excitement and expiration at an accelerated rate. The experiment takes the form of a MOBILE LABORATORY, traveling the globe, collecting, digesting, excreting, and storing new ideas and images at each turn. Beginning with the jury selection from Experiment I, this archive is kept alive, appended to and culled in conversation with participants from cities around the world, putting them in conversation with one another in dialogue with recovery.
Oswald Matthias, O.M. for short, is an architectural being, a beast designed to live in the accelerated landscape of recovery, produced for Imagining Recovery by the professors of speedism.
Meet O.M.
The first installment of the Mobile Laboratory opens on Day 148, June 16 at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.