Archive — ISRU workshop
Dome-mestic
A geodesic dome built from advertising, in quarantine
2020 August · Cambridge, MA
Instructor — Tom Sachs
Dome-mestic was made for Tom Sachs's ISRU program at MIT in the summer of 2020 — a special edition run during the COVID-19 quarantine. The brief was simple and strange: using only what you had on hand, build a geodesic dome at scale, following the recipe from Tom Sachs's NikeCraft.
I was living in a Harvard dormitory at 29 Garden Street, Cambridge, with almost nothing to build from. So I used what had piled up around me — advertising magazines and posters — cutting and folding them into the dome's triangulated panels.
The result glowed. At night the dome lit up like a light in a nightclub — which, at the time, was exactly where I wanted to be.
Building it, I realized how much of my life had been shaped and constructed by capitalism and consumerism — the same forces printed across every page of those magazines. The dome was made, quite literally, from the images that had been selling me a life.
