Joshua White
While we can locate many sites of conditioning air – the mechanical assemblies producing interior climates, policy and regulation, pollution sources, and sensing – others remain more elusive, historically and culturally contingent. We also condition air by telling stories about it. Architecture and allied disciplines propel technological narratives about comfort, passive and active ventilation, air-exchange rates and systems integration. These are narratives about performance, understood both quantitatively and qualitatively; as energy use and space-making. However building performance is increasingly linked to the conditions of our planet; climate is regionally specific yet globally situated. A pluralistic conditioning entails tempering air while considering the network of relations it forms, the stories that link bodies, ducts and environments across scales.
above and left: installation of Dune Ducts in the Perloff Gallery at UCLA in Los Angeles, October - December, 2019
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