Tega Brain
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Work from Coin-Operated Wetland.
“Can a system of water infrastructure be a love story? What does design for mutualism rather than extraction look like?
Coin-Operated Wetland invites the wetland into a domestic relationship with a laundry. And in doing so, it blurs distinctions between upstream and downstream, human and environment. By directly connecting human action with environmental health, the work poses questions around ecology, co-existence and the expectations of engineering. Can our infrastructures be redesigned to support ecosystems as well as human communities?
Yes, it could be beautiful — but will it be?” – Tega Brain