One degree removed : the last carnival of Venice

Development, including urban and architectural, has been driven by the idea of progress aimed at economic and technological growth, which, in turn has been leaving waste in its wake. Waste has thus become the subjects of culture in the 21st century. Our daily life is supported by products that could be understood as waste on life-support, with expiration dates and packaging material that ensure a lengthy and repulsive death, leaving behind durable synthetic corpses. Products of our consumption tend to pile out of sight, contributing to cities and architectures of their own. The binary condition of masking our waste is essentially our embedded cultural flaw, whether through landfills or capped as parks, masking consciousness and ownership as well - our current unsustainable paradigm of growth. Venice will be the first major city to drown because of climate change.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Rivera Deneke, Valeria.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ana Miljački.

• Architecture.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129884

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