The Snail is about resistance. Resistance to optimisation, to scale, to authorship.

It’s moving slow, not because it can’t run; but because it sees time as an opportunity rather than a deadline.

The Snail is formed through a participatory process and operates through placement, adjustment and response to existing conditions. It treats making not as a fixed outcome, but as part of a continuous cycle of attention, testing and care.

The work extends beyond fabrication. It brings together multiple contributors, forming a distributed process of making and placement. This is approached as a design ecology, where authorship is shared and decisions emerge through interaction with materials, people and process.

Placed within a specific location, The Snail continues through slow occupation.
It observes, adjusts and responds to changing conditions, testing what can shift and what remains.

There is no fixed end point.
The work is carried forward through use, attention and custodianship.

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