Toxic Landscapes and Technofossils: A Speculative Anthology of Flin Flon, Manitoba

This thesis explores the mirrored worlds created by the mining industry in Flin Flon, Manitoba. Named after an explorer from the novel, The Sunless City, Flin Flon is a terrain born from the curious intersection of geological possibility, mining, and science fiction. The town is negotiating its exploitation of mineral wealth while simultaneously coming to terms with its own environmental and economic exhaustion.This project explores and investigates the absurd and unintended consequences of extraction through a series of constructed narratives inspired by the novel's protagonist, Flintabbatey Flonatin. These narratives are used to catalogue a multitude of transformative events in the creation of new natures and new futures. Comparing fictions to core samples and technofossils, the relationship between Flin Flon and its spectral underworld are revealed as two conflicting worlds that continuously bleed and leach into one another.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Carleton University

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Kowalchuk, Anastasia

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 2019 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

10.22215/etd/2019-13566

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/40784