Category: Popular Culture
Japanese Miniatures: The 1/8th Project
July 5, 2022Our series on Japanese Miniatures investigates the specific Japanese small scale sensitivity as expressed through a love for things like bonsai, sushi, netsuke, and capsule hotels. Perhaps Japan ‘knows’ things about smallness that may help us embrace the desire for less. The 1/8th Project is an episode…
Japanese Miniatures: Bonkei
January 4, 2022Our series on Japanese Miniatures investigates the specific Japanese small scale sensitivity as expressed through a love for things like bonsai, sushi, netsuke, and capsule hotels. Perhaps Japan ‘knows’ things about smallness that may help us embrace the desire for less. A bonkei is a miniature landscape…
Miss Heightism
October 31, 2021Mandragora
February 6, 2015The Incredible shrinking Man desires a more ecological human existence. We’ve outgrown our naturally given space on Earth and are starting to experience the consequences, or even consider exit strategies. But rather than fantasising about a departure from the planet that designed us, we investigate…
Tall Tales: Langen Kerls
October 10, 2013Tall Tales is a new series of stories that investigate our obsession with height. Throughout history there have been iconic moments, stories and situations that shaped the fundamental yet unfounded belief that taller is better. First up; the Potsdam Giants. The Potsdam Giants was a Prussian infantry regiment composed…
Abundance Fantasies: Cockaigne
May 23, 2013Subliminal Tinker Bell
November 9, 2012Mainstream Microphilia (Lady Gaga)
September 25, 2012What-If Modelling
March 27, 2012(Mad) Scientist Fiction
October 24, 2011Mankind seems so indoctrinated to think bigger that sometimes the mere suggestion that we should become smaller is thoughtlessly rejected as mad science. Ever since the 20th century our relationship with science, vacillating between science as the salvation of society or its doom, has been personified by…