Synthesised Suppression
Pendulum
2086 Narrative
Set in 2086, this project imagines Nottingham’s Lace Market after ecological collapse and the rise of a patriarchal synthetic civilisation. Nature has been declared extinct, enabling a society built on synthetic food, materials, and controlled lifestyles. While men appear to flourish, the hidden consequence is widespread infertility. In resistance, women formed the Shadowed Sisterhood, fleeing the city to cultivate hidden gardens and live from natural resources guided by a moon-powered pendulum. Their self-sufficient lifestyle protects them from synthetic health defects, making their fertility a weaponised asset. Tracked through the regeneration of soil and biomass they leave behind, the Sisterhood are forced to seek permanent refuge within the abandoned Fletcher Gate Car Park.
Spatial Concept
Within the car park, the Shadowed Sisterhood adaptively re-use and reduce the existing structure to accommodate two primary functions: the Ayurvedic garden, which operates as a collective landscape of cultivation, healing, and resistance; and the central ritual membrane, housing the birthing pool associated with the individual act of natural birth. Birth becomes both spatial and ceremonial, generating the energy required to charge the pendulum and activate the Silent Ordnance; a coded system of movements interpreted through moonlight reflected upon ritual water. Through scrying, the Sisterhood receive premonitions, harvest instructions, and guidance for survival within a collapsing synthetic society.
