A Song of Ice and Fire

It takes on a controversial discussion about nature and how architects, visual artists and landscape designers might engage with its contemporary representation. Borrowing Zizek’s words, nowadays “nature is over”; classical landscapes have been progressively replaced by a new notion of synthetic environments, in which natural and mutated visions co-exist. It is precisely in this new hybrid territory that the course begins. In particular, during the workshop we will create a new planet, made of hyper realistic lush green fields, colorful flowers, buzzing insects, fantastical animals, calm rivers and mountain lakes. Each scene is digitally designed with extreme care, down to the minutiae of the smallest creature, to convince and immerse the audience into the reality of the digital dream. The planet is design to a ice planet which is going to be melted by the exploding of the volcano. The lava burnt out the forest and plants, animals.The breaking out volcano make the ice melt which leads to the animals lose their living space. I named the planet as the song of ice and fire. The forest fire in Australia from 2019 to 2020 gave me inspiration for this planet. I want to remind people to protect enviroment with this exhibition of the ice planet.