Yuhong Zhu

“Earth signals the capacity of life for self-organization, life’s ceaselessly unfolding flux of changing forms, forces, behaviors, and relations, and the fact that entities, processes, and forms are always in the process of dependent co-arising. I take this notion of Earth as the horizon for a renewed living praxis, and as the basis for the essential act of human dwelling.”

Survivance observes the city from the non-anthropocentric perspective — a multiplicity of others, focusing on the idea that we are always in a dynamic equilibrium and interdependence of everything that exists. Through a series of observation and research based on everyday urban scenarios, this project re-examines the relationship between the natural forms and the man-made.

From the walk along the newly built street to the verges of the railways, to capture the relationship between nature and its surroundings, a series of 3D scan has been conducted. Furthermore, the subtle and often neglected interactions between the plants, the train and wind are recorded by anemometer then transformed into datas and videos.

• Arturo Escobar, “Habitability and Design: Radical Interdependence and the Remaking of Cities.” Geoforum, no. 101 (2019): 132-140, 2019, p. 132.