A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Over the years he fills a given surface with images of provinces and kings, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fish, rooms, instruments, heavenly bodies, horses, and people. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
The thesis reflects on how we appropriate and inhabit the world through the mediation of objects, which we use as tools and extensions of ourselves. It is an exploration of the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler.
The essay explores the concept of beauty in Kants system of Categories and if it can still be relevant to contemporary design practice.
The essay establishes a dialogue between Tschumi’s theoretical work The Architectural Paradox and his built project Parc de la Villette.
The essay explores the role of the human body in phenomenological discourse through the works of Edmund Husserl, Franz Brentano and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.