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Gabriel\u0117 Du\u017einskyt\u0117<\/strong> together with mentor Paula Veidenbauma<\/strong> in the project Economies of Wasteland <\/em>delves into ghosts of efficiency, or what happens after the landscape. Her gaze is directed towards the Baltic Sea and its islands \u2013 especially man-made ones \u2013 and the extractive, sometimes absurd processes that lie behind their emergence. During her residency at the Experiments’ Platform in Helsinki, Gabriel\u0117 explored the Kruunuvuorenranta<\/em> project (literally translated as the royal hillside) being developed on the island of Laajasalo \u2013 a newly built massive residential area, for the construction of which the island\u2019s territory is being artificially expanded. This project is being developed on the former industrial territory of the oil terminal but it also expands into the natural territory of the island \u2013 part of the forest which has long been a recreational oasis for local residents is being cut down. This process has been intensely opposed by local activists for a long time, but without any clear results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the Helsinki residency, using a role-play format game, Gabriel\u0117 invited the Experiments Platform team to step directly into the construction site of the Kruunuvuorenranta<\/em> project being developed in Laajasalo and discuss the ghosts of the place. What are the values \u200b\u200bof this territory? What actors are involved in this process? Who creates the reason for the miscommunication? Each participant embodied a different character \u2013 a bird, a local resident, an activist, an oil company employee, a developer, a fisherman. Pairs of these characters set off to wander the boundless construction site, among soil, sand, gravel hills, piles of blasted rocks and working machines. Having detected the spirit of conflict at play, the characters marked the chosen territory and left a building permit document there. This experiment involved reflections on the inertia of large scale construction projects, the course of miscommunications that arise in the process, responsibility and agency of the architect, the indifference of residents, and raised the question – how to find a point of dialogue between residents, developers, activists, builders, and non-human beings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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