What Goes Around Comes Around

Description

In an alternate reality shaped by two suns, Sophie Stanitzek’s project explores a world defined by climate weirding and human-made environmental collapse. Under relentless heat and chaotic weather, traditional survival strategies become obsolete. Through speculative, low-tech objects, like flood-floating loungers or parabolic tanning devices, she stages the absurdity of apocalyptic joy and exposes the inequalities of future leisure. These designs critically reflect on our relationship to natural forces and open resources, to surface contradictions. Rather than proposing fixes, the work amplifies symptoms of collapse that are already unfolding. It moves beyond the idea that techno-solutionism is the only path forward, and reveals how comfort, pleasure, and resilience are increasingly privileges of the wealthy. In doing so, it opens up space for a more conscious and honest engagement with the forces shaping life on Earth.