under observation : a site of totality in uncertain futures

This thesis asks how we can integrate ourselves into the unforgiving yet susceptible cosmology of our universe, a feat we have repeatedly failed to do in recent history. Through technological advancement, we have abstracted, pixelated, consumed, and mined our world to irreversible measures, as well as distanced ourselves from what used to be a crucial symbiotic relationship between land and people. Therefore, it is necessary for us as humans to reestablish our relationship to our planet and beyond. It does so by tracking three recurrences of one event in one site over the course of one millennium, narrating changing conditions in landscape, climate, culture, and production while reclaiming the landscape for unaccounted voices in the western histories through representation and intervention.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Fauer, Marlena(Marlena B.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sheila Kennedy.

• 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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129910

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/129910