{"id":38257,"date":"2026-03-18T02:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/?p=38257"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:48:33","slug":"micheal-mccready-from-the-ground-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/micheal-mccready-from-the-ground-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Micheal Mccready \u2014 From The Ground Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:28px;letter-spacing:-0.8px\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>From The Ground Up<\/strong> reflects on a future in which the built world continues to expand, gradually overtaking what we once understood as natural. Drawing from the language of construction and infrastructure, its form references foundations, pipelines, and engineered joints that increasingly shape our landscapes. Softened and slowed, these industrial elements begin to mimic processes of growth, erosion, and flow. In doing so, the work suggests a world where technology and structure may come to replace organic nature. It invites reflection on how ideas of \u201cnature\u201d might shift as human-made systems become our dominant environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<br><strong>We Will Design 2026: HELLO, DARKNESS<\/strong> embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.<br>It is an invitation to recognize the abyss \u2014 political, ecological, aesthetic \u2014 we&#8217;re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Ground Up reflects on a future in which the built world continues to expand, gradually overtaking what we once understood as natural. Drawing from the language of construction and infrastructure, its form references foundations, pipelines, and engineered joints that increasingly shape our landscapes. Softened and slowed, these industrial elements begin to mimic processes of growth, erosion, and flow. 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