Logistics & Labour Central in Dandenong South seeks to champion labour power via forming logistics worker solidarity. The logistics worker is the vector for the project. Stage 1: a heavily subsidized auto parts distribution and repair service alongside rudimentary organising space, a response to casualized gig-works offloading of vehicle maintenance to the worker. Stage 2: a worker-run drone delivery service in parallel with a labour school, an outgrowth from the labour organising of Stage 1. Tackles challenges questions for the future of logistics work, superseding of the automobile in last-mile delivery and the need for labour power in the face of automation and an atomised labour.
Stage 2 Axonometric
Red I-Beams remain from Stage 1: Auto Part Distribution & Repair + Rudimentary Organising / Office Space. Blue I-Beams frame Stage 2: Drone Distribution + Labour School (library, classrooms, on-rails lecture caddies, gazebos, removal of external walls).
Plan 0
Base Layer of Stage 1 with 'frames' that project Stage 2 expansions and iterations.
Plan 1
Base Layer of Stage 1 with 'frames' that project Stage 2 expansions and iterations.
Stage 2 Vignette
Vignette of drone port from lecture caddy.
Abisna Kanagasabesan, Stage 2 Axonometric
Abisna Kanagasabesan, Plan 0
Abisna Kanagasabesan, Plan 1
Abisna Kanagasabesan, Stage 2 Vignette
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