“In a world of Black Swans, the first step to understanding, is knowing just how much we will never understand.”
This book is a collated research document, displaying the artifacts and selective research that has contributed to and led the direction of my enquiry for the project entitled ‘Everything Ends in Chaos’ – my final graduation project, whilst studying in the Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art.
Excerpt | p64
Insurance is often associated
with drab, mundane office
spaces lined with polyester gray
carpets, stale water coolers and
stained coffee cups.
The series of images that
follow are images that describe
a different aesthetic, one
I imagine could be conjured as
a result of policy. What does
a Black Swan really look like?
How might it feel to be situated
within it or even standing by
the sidelines watching it and
how might the policy describe
the event?
Paradoxically insurance is as
much about fantasy as it is
about reality, how do we imagine
speculative risk? What might it
look like? Could it look like scene
from a Kubrick film, or might the
people involved converse like
characters in a Coen film?
Policies can be read as fiction,
because that is exactly what
they are until the speculation
becomes true.