During the experiments two recordings of daily routines were made, one with the pre-existing tools and one with the perspective of the arch-scope. On the first one, things appear to be completely normal, and nothing changes, it is our reality. Whereas in the second recording with the arch-scope, we can get a different perspective, the image gets distorted, and sometimes it is hard to recognize our routine in it. What was mundane becomes extraordinary and unfamiliar. It is only when we see certain key elements that we recognize the action that we were performing. In this new recording, the focus is no longer on our figure, our routine, or our thoughts, but on our surroundings. The anthropocentrism that we live on diffuses and gives space to a new habit of looking and ethics. We can focus on the changes when we enter the room, the connections between a body and a space. Using the arch-scope makes us aware of what we cannot see when we are focusing on ourselves. It magnifies all the neglected movements that start to happen when a body comes into play in a space and shows them to the viewer when it is open to look from this new perspective.
Many recordings were made in order to have a range of experience on the different scales and with the outsider-insider perspectives. The images were mainly taken from my current home, which proves the point of the many universes inside a home and the different ways we can inhabit them. The arch-scope came into play also in the city of Gent - Belgium, in order to catch other experiences and observe what happens when many bodies are playing a role. The transformation, in this case, are less controllable than in a home, yet richer. More bodies, more changes, more things to discover and decode.
Once these recordings and the correspondent automatic drawings were made, some patterns were revealed. The process shows us some distortions in order to look at things differently. A clay model with mirrors, a dome-scope, was made from this analysis of images of the arch-scope. This way, we come up with another level of complexity and distortions in order to better understand our surroundings and what hides behind the first mundane look and the second look with an arch-scope.
The new dome-scope is placed in the previous spaces where the arch-scope was used, it shows us another layer of reality. This instrument gives us an image that is completely detached from the first observations of the routines. We can now look at the spaces and the transformations directly. Now the human appears again in the image but as another piece in the system and not the center. Looking at the changes when one comes into play and not just at ourselves. Placing a traditional mirror shows the current anthropocentrism, whereas placing the dome-scope shows how we are only part of the whole.
With all these experiences a last mapping was made. A collage-drawing that aims to bring together many of the scales and aspects presented in this thesis. The idea of the arch-scope shows us a condensation of all scales in one place. This drawing presents a personal view and example of what the arch-scope motivates since every person has different design sensibilities, so the mapping of these spaces varies depending on the viewer.
Finally, the last move consists of bringing all the experiments and experiences into one living space used for the recordings, the room-scope. How can we experience the scopes in our designs? Can we unveil transformations in a bigger space? This new scope uses a living room as a site of installation and acts similar to the dome-scope but on a larger scale. Now the structure is no longer clay but the architecture, the home, and the events happening in the whole room are magnified and seen at the same time. With the arch-scope or the dome-scope, there is a need for a user to place them and register. Whereas with the room-scope, there is a human action to place the reflected surfaces but is up to the viewer to choose what to look at. Nothing is hidden. We cannot deny it by not framing. In this case, even the things we do not frame are visible. Many reveals happening at the same time. Many viewers could see different transformations in the same site by just looking at another spot. This step is an installation to become aware of the events but probably not a place people would like to live in. An installation that opens our eyes and leaves. As ephemeral as the transformations are.
