DS 25

This year DS25 confronted looming global environmental and social problems, starting by designing spectres we called Future Ghosts. These pan-temporal protagonists haunted the past, present and future, helping to provide situated points of view and provoking ideas about speculative narratives and architectural concepts. We visited Sicily, looking through the eyes of our Future Ghosts for clues about future possibilities in the traces and visions of the past. Through drawings, storyboards, and materially-based models, we imagined how our Future Ghosts would haunt Palermo, and designed Shells-of-the-Ghosts, architectural fragments on chosen sites, as first forays into mediating the scale of the body and city. In the second semester, we expanded our initial ideas and the architectural seeds of the Shells-of-the-Ghosts. The results were adventurous architectural proposals situated in narratives of Palermo’s possible futures.