Displaced Diasporas – Re-location of Materials and Landscapes
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Displaced Diasporas emerges from a critical refusal to reduce landscapes to commodities. Instead, it approaches land as a relational entity, inseparable from the material it generates and from the human and non-human actors it shapes and is shaped by. The project proposes the concept of material diaspora—a framework for understanding how geological deposits and natural resources are extracted, dispersed, relocated, and recontextualised, forming material diasporas that carry relations across landscapes.
Situated within the wider landscape of Kinnekulle and at Råbäcks Mekaniska Stenhuggeri, established in 1888, the project begins with limestone from Kinnekulle as a means of tracing material movement across time and space. In doing so, it seeks to visibilise the invisible entanglements embedded within material movement, from sites of extraction to sites of accumulation and re-mineralisation.
Displaced Diasporas investigates how an awareness of material origins and material diasporas can inform relational design practices and critically situated forms of engagement, creating space for dialogue and collective reflection, and enabling new ways of seeing, making, experiencing, inhabiting, and valuing landscapes in solidarity with land and more-than-human worlds.