This is not a sentimental babyrage about the prejudice Melbournians had on South Sudanese.

Instead of fighting against it, this embassy design tries to propagate the formation and learning of the prejudice. And the fact that prejudice will ever exist. However, we must keep a lucid and critical approach to it, to the information we first received. Melbourne has always been a prejudiced city to the outsiders. As a recent victim, South Sudanese has been condemned for youth crime. As the representative of the country, its south Sudanese embassy’s responsibility to take on the action against the prejudice.

crime timeline

prejudice timeline

The embassy is consisted of a cluster of babies around the Melbourne and its greater area and a father: South Sudanese Embassy, sitting right in the middle of CBD. While the scattering is consolidated towards CBD, the designed shape of submarine tube is to attract people to see the inside.

Inside each baby, an image is cropped in 2 ways. Questioning the credibility of the image people are looking at, after seeing both. It triggers the information we receive first the real and the only truth?’

4 apparatus are set up inside embassy for people to reflect.

Pool – distorted mirror – panopticon – maze