Meet Graduate of Master in Design Ecologies Brohwyn Brennan
@bbbbbdesigns
Climate collapse is not a future event to be solved; it is an ongoing condition to be
inhabited.
Yet, as the water rises, the divide deepens in how we respond to it. My project, Tools for
Collapse, explores two divergent responses to an encroaching reality:
ESCAPE | serves as a critique of privatised safety and psychological disengagement, posing
a difficult question for a fractured world: if survival becomes a luxury commodity, who do we
ultimately deem worthy of it? When safety can be purchased, is it measured by our capacity
to remain untouched, or perhaps by how much of the world we can afford to ignore? This
exploration asks whether “peace of mind” is simply a tool for buying a version of reality
where the collapse is someone else’s problem
STAY | An exploration of collective resilience, marginalisation and radical engagement.
If safety is not a product to be purchased, can it instead be found in the strength of our
mutual dependencies? This landscape asks what it means to stop outrunning the water and
instead learn to live within it, asking; what happens if we treat collapse not as an end, but as
a shifting condition?
By juxtaposing these two worlds and the objects within them, this work asks to look at our
responses to ecological collapse, and the values already present in them.
When the world changes, do we buy the tools to escape, or create the tools to stay
together?
