Diego Morales-Portillo
Proposal for Habitat for Humankind is a series of blueprints (cyanotypes) that works as an exploration of impossible architecture (build with impossible shapes) as a metaphor for the impossibility of the utopian postmodern idea of communal spaces where humankind could coexist in harmony. These proposals are meant to remain in a conceptual realm, as an ironic act that proposed something meant to fail in practice: utopic ideas of spaces and structures that allow communal spaces.
The use of cyanotype is a fundamental element in the conceptual discourse: the camera-less process, the matter, and the photosensitive materials are linked to the semiotic and conceptual meaning of the reproducibility of an idea through the image and optics. It refers to the historical context in which cyanotypes were used to make blueprints.