Above Ground

Above Ground' explores how global governing bodies utilise law as a design tool for spatial production. Although airspace may present itself as immaterial, it initiates and perpetuates material consequences, formulated within and through a suspended architecture. This architecture is altered according to the politics of the ground, by the interplay between nations and the infractions, slippages and obstructions that occur when laws cease to be followed or disputes fail to be resolved. These become visible when extraterritorial spaces are formed, interfering with established patterns of movement. These spaces require circumnavigation: an avoidance or evasion of deregulated zones that exist in direct contrast to the legislated architecture of airspace.