MARTÍN ÁVILA

Prepositions usually indicate spatial, temporal or logical relations in a sentence. Since we cannot but think relationships through so called natural languages such as English, I designed prepositiontools to explore the potential of grammatical prepositions to analyse, ideate and materialise design proposals “in relation to”. Human beings use prepositions to define: what is outside, inside, above, below, before... acts which influence the logical, spatial, and temporal perception of relations among things. Through the use of prepositiontools, one might playfully challenge assumptions by thinking not only what is, but also what can be. This could be performed by asking “what if?”. What if this (x) was… without, beside, etc.

This project was developed in the context of my PhD studies, while experimenting with design versions to articulate the process and notion of languaging, as a displacement of sense that brings forth a world, and as a way to through language conceive ideas less anthropocentrically.