Mapped Fiction- Related Work

In catching up on BLDGBLOG posts I came across an entry describing a project which operated between fact and fiction, the historical and the memory. The work progresses from a notebook, to a map, to the construction of fabricated documents, then collected into a final architectural proposal. What I most appreciate is the front-end detail in the research and setting up the narrative. The research allows for multiple projections into the discourse rather than one reaction. The project as introduced by BLDGBLOG:

A group project by three students at Columbia's GSAPP—Yuval Borochov, Lisa Ekle, and Danil Nagy, under the guidance of professor Ed Keller—Protocol Architecture was pitched as a team that "investigates potentials for future design through the creation and analysis of hyper-fictional documents. These document sets create evidence for future scenarios that string together a specific history of political, social, and technological developments." As such, Protocol's work becomes less architectural than it is archival:

By focusing on the space of the document, we can avoid simplistic predictions of the future while creating a database of potential evidence which can be analyzed and interpreted by a wider audience of designers.

The resulting fictional archives—or "fabricated histories," as the architects describe them—allowed the group to question "the role that fact and evidence plays in how we perceive our own history and our place as designers within it." 

Read the whole entry here. or visit PROTOCOL's site.