Traces

Everything we do leaves traces behind, some are great and some are devistating. At the airport traces are immidiatly washed away, no one leaves anything behind; if you do so it is most likely to be taken care of by a cleaner, policeman or customs. Individuals don't seem to have great importance, it's more about the mass, the systeme. Does that mean you have no responsability? No power to effect? Don't see the consequences of your actions? Of course you're too tired, to stressed at work, feeling to sorry for yourself after a long depressing winter and in need of a little fun to be able to see any of this. But everyone does actually have a responsability, everyone is part of forming the world and situation we are in today, and everyone has to make active decisions.

Our project has the intention to make people aware of the traces their lifestyle and actions leave behind working with the concept and understanding of traces.

The project will embedd itself within the existing media and structure of the airport. The concept of traces will be discussed from following angles:

the romantic idea of the innocent (as in no-impact) tourist, leaving behind nothing but footprints on the beach that get washed away by the crystal blue tide. no traces are left behind, you're presence seems to have no physical impact, Mother Nature takes care of everything

the traces of you at Arlands; toilets, food, garbage...

the traces of the airplane in the sky, the CO2 emission

the traces of swedish tourism and migration abroud, so called Sweden-villages in Spain, Thailand, Greece, Turkey...Succesful Integration?

traces of Swedish Migration and Tourism manifested in signs and restaurant menues in Swedish

traces of time at arlanda....wanting to wash away all signs of history and age at Arlanda it's transforming into a spotless and carefree mall. The old sections still remaining tell a story about Arlanda and the Swedish sociaty

finally we would like to people to physically become aware of their actual footprints on the floor, working with some kind of technical device to do so, so with a combination of other works our statement and ideas become clear