Windcatcher for Exhausted Winds is an artistic research project that began during the 5th season of Experiments Platform run by Architectūros Fondas (LT). Under the mentorship of the architect and researcher Indrė Umbrasaitė I explored the relationship between terrestrial wind and the mechanical airflows generated by urban infrastructure.

Through wind walks, field research, workshops and audiovisual experiments, the project investigates what happens when natural atmospheric currents encounter ventilation systems, cooling units, vehicles and other technologies that continuously produce anthropogenic airflows. These encounters form what I call exhausted winds: unstable atmospheric zones where the distinction between natural and human-made movement begins to dissolve and results in a new type of air blend.

The project has developed through participatory Exhaustion Vents Exhausting Winds workshops in Helsinki, Copenhagen and Juodkrantė (2025) inviting participants to collectively follow, sense and map invisible air currents through walking, listening and choreography as sensory tools.

Instead of attempting to measure wind scientifically, ‘exhausted’ wind develops alternative methods for encountering it - by using bodily perception and collective listening as tools for understanding the atmospheres and urban developments we inhabit.

Research outcomes were presented as part of Experiments Platform: "Reflecting Abundance: Acts of Unfolding the Space" exhibition at SODAS 2123 Project Space.

Photography by Ikko Alaska and Maeve Collins, 2025