Minotaur Project
 

The Minotaur Project started as research into the disconnected and binary roots of western design philosophy, and attempts to introduce a more interconnected design approach.​​ The research draws on a confluence of linguistics, history, anthropology, and philosophy. The project is divided into three distinct yet connected parts: a framework, a functional figurehead for said framework, and an single channel video that introduces the scope and subjects of the research.

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   - The Minotaur Framework is a practical design philosophy that bridges the social and environmental binary in western culture, and serves as an introduction to designing within a socio-ecosystemic framework. (A written publication is currently in progress, but my digital presentation slideshow is below)

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   - The Minotaur Shelf  (located in the middle of this webpage) embodies the multi-layered and reciprocal principles laid out in the framework, ranging from ideas of formal, functional, and material authenticity, connective interactions, and integrated death cycles, to source sharing, and localism. This design's narrative and symbology stem from personal and family history, as well as the Midwestern and Great Lakes cultures that shaped my design perspective.

   - The Bullseye vs. Bull's Eye video (located at the bottom of this webpage) illustrates the world built by the western binary perspective, and explores what lies behind its limits. The video draws from American horror cinema's tradition of social criticism, and the theory that what is repressed will spill over, and what is oppressed will always come home.

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