DALEKO / ДАЛЁКО
https://daleko.space/
Tigran Kostandyan (AM) | Tim Nosov (RU) | Eleanor Peres (AU) | Anastasia Sinitsyna (RU)

An other, external space where waste goes to is a psychotic delusion of the human imagination. This concept of waste as an externality is a problematic narrative that has been perpetuated throughout history and must now be reimagined.

Daleko — a spatial and temporal reference to distant imaginaries, both far away and in the future — is a research and design speculation on the role of waste in The Terraforming project of a planetary plan for a viable future. Its focus is not on waste itself as discarded products or objects but on the concept of waste as matter that is valuable to the planet’s metabolism in deep-time.

Daleko is a common future world that reimagines the concept of waste over deeper time scales and expanded frames of value by carefully dissolving the concept of externality. The world is composed of nine science-fiction narratives that are centred around sites of obsolescence in the Russian Territory, told from the future. The sites and stories reveal various, detailed perspectives of an interconnected future.

Credits:

The project was developed during The Terraforming 2020 at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia
https://theterraforming.strelka.com/

Researchers: Eleanor Peres, Anastasia Sinitsyna, Tigran Kostandyan and Tim Nosov

Program Director: Benjamin H. Bratton
Program Tutors: Nicolay Boyadjiev, Lisa Dorrer

Impossible without: Elena Mozgovaya, Vlad Ilkevich, Olga Tenisheva, Timur Zolotoev, George Papamattheakis
Research Collaborators: Jussi Parikka, Angelina Davydova, Alan Synnott
Special Thank You: Nastia Stebleva, Sergey Steblev
Voice: Nastia Stebleva
Editor: Theo Merz
Footage: creative commons license unless otherwise credited
Music and graphics: Mystery of the Third Planet (Roman Kachanov, Kir Bulychev, Natalya Orlova, Aleksandr Zatsepin and others)

TTF 2020 – Daleko