Strange Temporality
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Not a one-off event, the Fukushima nuclear accident is one of the many other manmade disruptions to the Earth that add up to the weight of the epoch of Anthropocene. Whereas some epochs in Earth history stretch more than 40 million years, Antrhopocene started around 400 ago. The unbalanced time scale of Anthropocene comparing to the other geological epochs signifies how tremendous have the disruptions by human beings on Earth been .
By studying the growth and decay of what were and are still present at the Fukushima nuclear site, it is noted in this project that the radioactive Fukushima is not just a catastrophe in space, it is also a catastrophe in time. This project models the weird temporality of the Fukushima site.
The project visualizes a landscape of strange temporality where the stillness and the decay of manmade objects intersects with the change of seasons, the wide range of time scale of nature, the growth of plants and motions of living organisms.
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