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Throwing Shade: Heatwaves, Emergency Preparedness, and Produced Risk
(2021-05-21)
Throwing Shade introduces a series of public cooling landscapes designed to offer relief both daily and in emergencies. Through considering networks of infrastructure and public acupuncture, the design proposes heat escapes ...
Unpaving Paradise : Envisioning a Healthy Hialeah
(2021-05-18)
Hialeah is a city of “unhealthy” urban character in terms of green coverage, economic opportunity, and medical care; however, its strong sense of community and interpersonal “weak ties” could help overcome these characteristics ...
Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum as Evolution Lab
(2021-05-19)
This thesis explores the role of evolutionary biology in landscape architecture, examining designed landscapes as potential drivers for species evolution. It argues that any landscape design makes direct and immediate ...
De Materia Perspectiva
(2021-05-24)
“I inscribe a quadrangle ... which is considered to be an open window through which I see,” the artist and architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote in his 1425 treatise on perspective. This description surely reminds us of ...
TEOTWAWKI: A Designer's Guide to Prepping
(2021-05-18)
Preparing, colloquially known as “prepping,” is a political act that can be read through the medium of landscape, extending from the colonization of the United States to the present. While mainstream media portrays preppers ...
Aqua Firma/Incognita/Communi
(2021-05-19)
This thesis drifts into the ocean’s dark, turbulent depths to envision how urbanized seas erode landed geologics. Modernity has figured the ocean as an unknowable expanse opposed to land yet suffuse with extractable ...
Composing Soundscapes for Social Integration: Psychogeography of Bhutanese refugee elders in Worcester, Massachusetts
(2021-05-18)
Sound can transcend the boundaries of time and space. This thesis leverages the potential of sound to capture a sense of place and reinterpret space by transplanting it to new environments. Working with the Bhutanese ...