Lopez Lobato, Deborah;
Charbel, Haden;
(2023)
Folifobia.
Materia Arquitectura
, 25
pp. 49-62.
10.56255/ma.v1i25.561.
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Abstract
Human hair is as historically rich as it is culturally significant. However, although it has traditionally had numerous uses and is a readily available and constantly growing material, most hair, once cut, is immediately discarded. In the contemporary context of resource extraction, excess and waste, the question arises: what value do these insignificant cuts have and how can they reshape our understanding of the self, the collective and the environment? This research highlights the potential of human hair as an abundant and overlooked resource for environmental monitoring. It features two human hair installations that attempt to address the question posed above; the first, “Foll(i)cle”, corresponds to an interactive public pavilion that measures urban toxicity; the second, “Hairarium”, reinterprets material and aesthetic ideologies between humans and non-humans.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Folifobia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.56255/ma.v1i25.561 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v1i25.561 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author 2024. Original content in this paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | hair, toxicity, collective experiments, esthetic, protocols |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193756 |
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