Project by Jiayan Li
How a body is reshaped by external systems. The idea of othering is investigated with plant-monitoring technologies: how sensing devices create parallel versions of the same organism. Building on this, I shifted from an isolated garden environment to the collective and highly choreographed world of American football: The project rebrands football through Mayo Clinic, treating the sport as a medicalized dataset in which penalties function like diagnostic cues and the athlete’s body is continuously interpreted through biomedical reasoning embedded in the game. These layers are translated into a circular interpretive apparatus, an architectural system in which each chamber processes a specific mode of understanding. Zones dedicated to physical action, diagnostic sensing, pattern recognition, narrative construction, and betting exist simultaneously, reflecting how technological and social forces operate together around harmful events. Three key actors emerge: those who bet on harm, those who monitor data flows, and those who diagnose the injury.
