http://cargocollective.com UCLA Sun, 30 Sep 2012 08:28:58 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/MIDSIZE-AMERICA http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/MIDSIZE-AMERICA Sun, 30 Sep 2012 08:28:58 +0000 UCLA 4170472 We are happy to announce that the first publication of the Culture Now project has been released. The publication was launched at UCLA's Hammer Museum in June 2012. We would like to thank everyone involved, especially the students of the 2010/11 Suprastudio. A special thanks to Jai Kumaran and Clayton Taylor of WRKSHP for their outstanding editorial and design work on this publication. Foreword: Thom Mayne Further contributions: Karen Lohrmann, Clayton Taylor and Jai Kumaran, Albert Pope, Alan Berger, Stefano de Martino, Orhan Ayyuce, Frances Anderton, Victor Jones, Nicola Twilley, Stephen Phillips Book concept: Thom Mayne, Karen Lohrmann, Clayton Taylor, Jai Kumaran Editor: Karen Lohrmann MIDSIZE AMERICA was published by the University of California Los Angeles and generously supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. MIDSIZE AMERICA is available for $25 and can be ordered through Bookorders. UCLA A.UD news release UCLA online release <img src="http://payload93.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4170472/CNP_book_web.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="2048" height_o="1359" src_o="http://payload93.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4170472/CNP_book_web_o.jpg" data-mid="21932581" border="0" align="left"/> We are happy to announce that the first publication of the Culture Now project has been released. The publication was launched at UCLA's Hammer Museum in June 2012.... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/Transitional-Ground http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/Transitional-Ground Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:18:31 +0000 UCLA 4103090 Bob Frederick, Ian Christopher Thomas, Joshua Robinson, Sean Boyd <img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Intro_1.jpg" width="670" height="426" width_o="800" height_o="509" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Intro_1_o.jpg" data-mid="21525855" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Intro_2.jpg" width="670" height="426" width_o="800" height_o="509" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Intro_2_o.jpg" data-mid="21525857" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Intro_3.jpg" width="670" height="426" width_o="800" height_o="509" 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width_o="800" height_o="509" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/House_o.jpg" data-mid="21525853" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Market_Intro.jpg" width="670" height="426" width_o="800" height_o="509" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Market_Intro_o.jpg" data-mid="21525891" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Market.jpg" width="670" height="426" width_o="800" height_o="509" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/4103090/Market_o.jpg" data-mid="21525893" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/727221/AnimatedGIF72Houses.gif" > Bob Frederick, Ian Christopher Thomas, Joshua Robinson, Sean Boyd http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/American-Biproduct-Part-1 http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/American-Biproduct-Part-1 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:45:15 +0000 UCLA 3982764 <img 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data-mid="20830909" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_11.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2000" height_o="1600" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_11_o.jpg" data-mid="20830911" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_12.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2000" height_o="1600" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_12_o.jpg" data-mid="20830912" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_13.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_13_o.jpg" data-mid="20830914" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_14.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_14_o.jpg" data-mid="20830917" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_15.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_15_o.jpg" data-mid="20830919" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_16.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_16_o.jpg" data-mid="20830923" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_17.jpg" width="670" height="536" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982764/FINAL_Presentation_Page_17_o.jpg" data-mid="20830927" border="0" align="left"/> What has evolved as a problematic since an initial perception of human disconnection or alienation identifies closely with a culture of consumerism in the US. Not unknown to our society since the advent of industrial development and moving on into post ford-ist economies, consumer society exhibits our human desire to constantly find ways to improve life while at the same time dispose of obsolete methods of existence. In just one century, the bucolic ways of life in the United States have shifted to urban modes of mass production and technological creation. It is in this accelerated period of development that the connection between value and purpose has become so obscured as to render our society blind to the whimsy of constant replacement and technological progress. In a society that now operates in order to solve issues created through problematic beginnings, resiliency is misunderstood to be the only mode of operation that can save us. As a culture, we must waste to progress. We purge outdated science, fashions, and ideologies as well as products. However, since the second half of the twentieth century, consumption has become excessive. The marked imbalance shows the paradox of the dually constructive and destructive power humanity holds. As objects become increasingly readily available and easy to manufacture, it has become easy for our culture to change its view of attachment. A loss of inherent value has risen through underutilized embodied energies of everyday objects, which has also allowed mankind to detach itself from the life cycle of goods, making complacency easy. For example, the amount of disposable products today enables consumers to fixate on the latest version of a product, allowing for complete disregard of its predecessor. As Heather Rogers states in her book Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage: “About 80 percent of U.S. products are used once, then thrown away...95 percent of all plastic, two thirds of all glass containers, and 50 percent of all aluminum beverage can are never recycled; instead they just get burned or buried.“ 1 While we do not know the extent of the damage we are creating, we are beginning to understand the repercussions that this practice creates. This process is not exclusive to products, but also a current practice among business and industry. The sites which both business and industry operate on are often as disposable as the products we throw away. This results in land that becomes sponge-like for industrial waste and by-products, ultimately leading to over saturation of toxins rendering the land useless for any other habitation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states, “A Superfund site is an uncontrolled or abandoned place where hazardous waste is located, possibly affecting local ecosystems or people.” 2 As these sites influence the surrounding areas they pose threats of cross-contamination to the local wildlife and human population. Consequences of this are possibly linked to a variety of cancers and other infectious diseases. Trash is an unknown liability. With increased technology, fears have shifted from hygiene and cholera to toxins and polluted groundwater. Everyone is familiar with the problem of trash, but it remains in the realm of the unknown. Our perceptions are disenfranchised by market and capitalistic forces larger than ourselves which handle the undesirable, everyday discarding’s we neglect all-to-often to consider beforehand. We are unable to control the amount of waste we make simply by living and working in America. This guilt and anxiety is coupled with a feeling of helplessness. Not feeling in control leads to ambivalence. The federal government treats waste paradoxically. The Supreme Court has classified the movement of trash as commerce, but the actual stuff is categorized by the EPA as potentially harmful and an environmental pollutant. This ambiguity is inherently part of the problem, or paradox of trash. To consume, we must waste. While progress is positive, there is a negative side of consumption - excessiveness. There is not a single solution to the complex problem. We cannot go back to certain practices we now deem inhumane and unsanitary. However, we must question whether our current practices are an improvement, or just better at masking the ever present problem. This realization aims to bring American cultures attention to the problem at hand: obsolescence - obsolescent productions, obsolescent products, and obsolescent bi-products. Engaging this phenomenon of US culture through a highly quantifiable and pervasive category, waste (the “American bi-product”) will serve as our medium through which questions of value, permanence, and object attraction will be filtered in order to reduce our moment of intervention - where we, as designers, chose to engage this phenomenon so intimately related to our pursuits and desires. As designers concerned with the latent problems of our cities and economies - those constituent aspects of urban and suburban fabric - defining a moment of clarity and introspection will be how we engage the issue and introduce more creative and intelligent ways of dealing with it. What has evolved as a problematic since an initial perception of human disconnection or alienation identifies closely with a culture of consumerism in the... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/American-Biproduct-Part-2 http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/American-Biproduct-Part-2 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:45:13 +0000 UCLA 3982792 <img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/2A.jpg" width="670" height="1340" width_o="1024" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/2A_o.jpg" data-mid="20831030" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/3A.jpg" width="670" height="1340" width_o="1024" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/3A_o.jpg" data-mid="20831039" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/4A.jpg" width="670" height="1340" width_o="1024" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/4A_o.jpg" data-mid="20831045" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/5A.jpg" width="670" height="2010" width_o="1024" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/5A_o.jpg" data-mid="20831049" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/6A.jpg" width="670" height="2010" width_o="1024" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/6A_o.jpg" data-mid="20831065" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/7A.jpg" width="670" height="2010" width_o="1024" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload84.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/3982792/7A_o.jpg" data-mid="20831074" border="0" align="left"/> Our project engages the city of Los Angeles and its existing landfills, infrastructures, communities, and waterways with a multifaceted urban plan aiming to reorganize the daily flow of discarded materials destined for landfills, in-turn repurposing their end-value from the ground back into society’s urban fabric. The introduction of deliberately placed and programmed waste to energy (WTE) plants coupled with civic programs oriented at community development and enrichment locate themselves throughout all of LA, bound closely to one of the largest arterial passages in Los Angeles: the LA River. Each community centered facility organizes the WTE facility inside civic programming aimed to encourage community awareness and involvement while repurposing the embodied energy of discarded waste into energy for homes, water for households, and community/commercial spaces for human interaction. The deteriorated and polluted LA River provides the setting for our projects to create alternate and improved environments from the aftermath of industrially polluted waterways and brown field areas which straddle the majority of the river. Restoring the natural beauty of the LA River while instantiating a new program aimed at improving civic life, a performative and pro-active resource and attraction for each community becomes the purpose of our projects. Coupling multiple lost assets of the city of Los Angeles, the reordering of waste disposal takes on a transformative power for what environments could look like and grow to become. Starting in Long Beach, moving through Bell Gardens, and finally arriving downtown, each WTE facility embodies a unique program sensitive to the contextual quality of LA’s neighborhoods, further personifying technological interventions inside the needs for interesting spacial destinations - icons. These destinations promote community awareness and create important infrastructural changes through adaptations to our aforementioned issue of obsolescence. The hope is to create interesting applications and settings for advanced technologies to provide lasting services based on long-term, programmatic planning and forethought rather than immediate returns destined for obsolete endings. Charlie Heid, Jacob Semler, Emily Meza Our project engages the city of Los Angeles and its existing landfills, infrastructures, communities, and waterways with a multifaceted urban plan aiming... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/Abandonment http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/Abandonment Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:36:31 +0000 UCLA 2671445 Displaced Origins by Charlie Heid <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_1.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_1_o.jpg" data-mid="13536109" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_2.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_2_o.jpg" data-mid="13536110" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_3.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_3_o.jpg" data-mid="13536111" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_4.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_4_o.jpg" data-mid="13536112" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_5.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_5_o.jpg" data-mid="13536114" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_6.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_6_o.jpg" data-mid="13536115" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_7.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_7_o.jpg" data-mid="13536117" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_8.jpg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/CH_8_o.jpg" data-mid="13536118" border="0" align="left"/>This study has arisen from a fascination that human beings need a purpose or way of identifying themselves in the context of their living environments. Studying the way art, architecture, and culture have dealt with this as an expression of humanity will serve as my point of departure for defining what constitutes abandonment on a physical and psychological level – both being constituent pieces of human interaction. Abandonment in this study is defined as a loss of understanding one has with their physical context. My study aims to investigate, primarily, how an erosion of human interest results from the desensitization or alienation of purpose one has with regard to their physical context, and secondarily, how purpose and contextual quality can have varying elements of time and place. The sensation of being lost or without meaning expressed through popular art, media, and the performance qualities of current cities will form the basis for representing this study. Tactical Abandonment by Ian Christopher Thomas <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/000_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/000_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536348" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/001_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/001_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536350" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/002_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/002_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536351" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/003_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/003_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536353" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/004_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/004_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536354" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/005_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/005_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536355" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/006_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/006_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536356" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/007_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/007_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536357" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/008_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/008_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536359" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/009_abd_ict.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/009_abd_ict_o.jpg" data-mid="13536361" border="0" align="left"/> Caravanning Contemporary Culture by Katie Green <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_00.jpg" width="670" height="671" width_o="670" height_o="671" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_00_o.jpg" data-mid="13536583" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_01.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_01_o.jpg" data-mid="13536584" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_02.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_02_o.jpg" data-mid="13536585" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_03.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_03_o.jpg" data-mid="13536586" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_04.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_04_o.jpg" data-mid="13536587" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_05.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_05_o.jpg" data-mid="13536588" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_06.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_06_o.jpg" data-mid="13536589" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_07.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_07_o.jpg" data-mid="13536590" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_08_v1.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_08_v1_o.jpg" data-mid="13536591" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_08_v2.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="670" height_o="668" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_08_v2_o.jpg" data-mid="13536592" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_09.jpg" width="670" height="667" width_o="670" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/kg_09_o.jpg" data-mid="13536596" border="0" align="left"/> Landscapes of Abandonment by Sean Boyd Contemporary landscape photography has its roots in the American government-sponsored survey photography of the nineteenth century. As western territories grew into full-fledged states, the camera became an important tool in the documentation of America's newest forests, mountains, rivers, canyons, valleys, and lakes. The survey photograph is inherently problematic. Its purpose is to document objectively, but the reality of a situation in which a nearly infinite number of photographic opportunities wrestles with a very finite number of film plates means the photographs produced are entirely subjective (this is as opposed to, say, Google Street View, which is a kind of modern day photographic survey in which a more finite number of photographic opportunities (views from a car on a street) meet up with a nearly infinite supply of digital "film"). As such, the photographs are deliberate, considered, and compositionally beautiful. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/1280px-Flickr_-_E280A6trialsanderrors_-_Timothy_O-Sullivan-_South_side_of_Inscription_Rock-_New_Mexico-_1873.jpeg" width="670" height="495" width_o="670" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/1280px-Flickr_-_E280A6trialsanderrors_-_Timothy_O-Sullivan-_South_side_of_Inscription_Rock-_New_Mexico-_1873_o.jpeg" data-mid="13536678" border="0" align="left"/> Inscription Rock, New Mexico, 1873. Timothy O'Sullivan The images produced in these surveys are not images of abandonment. On the contrary, they are mostly images of pristineness. But as the archetype of landscape photography, this pristineness found its way into landscape photographs taken throughout the twentieth century-- photographs of pristineness, occupied landscapes, and abandoned landscapes. Kim Bell writes of Robert Adams and the other photographers in the seminal New Topographics show, "the King and Wheeler Surveys, photographically recorded by Timothy O'Sullivan, not only influenced the expectations that viewers would develop for the spare vistas and otherworldly features of the Southwestern frontier, but these less romantic, arguably more documentary images would also have a lasting impact on the practice of photography in the United States." To Bell, O'Sullivan's survey photographs set up an expectation of pristineness in landscape photography. Interestingly, when this expectation of pristineness is applied to contemporary vistas in which much of the virgin landscape is at least somewhat populated by a form of built environment, the resulting feeling of the image moves from pristine to abandoned. People are conspicuously rare inhabitants of the built environments of the New Topographers--so rare that it seems intentional. City streets, buildings, roads, parking lots, and houses all exist in these photographs without human inhabitants. This intentional depopulation of built environments leaves the places looking abandoned. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/IMG_1537.jpg" width="670" height="498" width_o="670" height_o="498" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/IMG_1537_o.jpg" data-mid="13536682" border="0" align="left"/> Horse Shoe Canyon, Green River, Utah, 1876. Timothy O'Sullivan As contemporary photography pushed forward into the end of the twentieth century, photographers like John Divola, Richard Misrach, and Edward Burtynsky begin taking on abandonment itself as a theme in photography. In a little over a hundred years, photographers captured the entire cycle of place. What remains throughout these stages is a compositional aestheticization. Survey photographers like O'Sullivan made compositionally beautiful photographs of beautiful subjects in pristine lands. We accept this value judgment because we accept an inherent beauty in nature. Interestingly, later photographers' images of abandoned places--places that represent a failure of economics, policy, capitalism, human compassion--are also imbued with a sense of beauty. One could argue that the power here is not in the deception involved (passing off something horrible as beautiful), but maybe in finding the beauty that is as inherent in the abandoned as in the pristine. Burtynsky's Quarry photographs demonstrate this idea most powerfully. Demand for stone has literally gouged out the landscapes and left massive and complex geometric scars in the earth. Whatever rapaciousness and unsustainability this represents, the resulting landscape is as beautiful as any landscape nature has created without the help of man. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/IMG_1538.jpg" width="670" height="493" width_o="670" height_o="493" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/IMG_1538_o.jpg" data-mid="13536683" border="0" align="left"/> Canyon of Lodore, Colorado, 1876. Timothy O'Sullivan Misrach states that "the strongest criticism leveled at my work is that I'm making 'poetry of the Holocaust.' But I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas. It engages people when they might otherwise look away." It's true that these photos can force us to look at things that we might otherwise not want to, in a sugary pill sort of way, but maybe Misrach misses the more fundamental value exposed in these photographs of abandonment. In the cycle that is landscape, maybe abandonment is just man's version of pristine, and maybe there's beauty in that as it slips back into the entropy of nature. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/tufa-domes-pyramid-lake-nevada-king-survey-1867.jpeg" width="670" height="499" width_o="670" height_o="499" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671445/tufa-domes-pyramid-lake-nevada-king-survey-1867_o.jpeg" data-mid="13536684" border="0" align="left"/> Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 1876. Timothy O'Sullivan Displaced Origins by Charlie Heid This study has arisen from a fascination that human beings need a purpose or way of identifying themselves in the context of their... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/Abandonment-1 http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/Abandonment-1 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:36:30 +0000 UCLA 2671615 Drop Out by Josh Robinson <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-01.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-01_o.jpg" data-mid="13537119" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-02.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-02_o.jpg" data-mid="13537120" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-03.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-03_o.jpg" data-mid="13537121" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-04.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-04_o.jpg" data-mid="13537122" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-05.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jr-05_o.jpg" data-mid="13537123" border="0" align="left"/> This is the exploration of a long and ongoing lineage of drop out culture. In this context abandonment is used in the least as a critique of contemporary society and at most as a means to the creation of an alternate society and way of life and living. Inklings of this type of abandonment can be found throughout history but a particular breed begins to gain coherence in the middle 1800’s and sustains itself through contemporary society. Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, and his escape to Walden Pond are early examples and they continue into the 20th century via the Decadent movement and it’s dismissal of conformity and rationale. These ideas are over and over again re-appropriated, renamed and/or reinvigorated in an attempt to liberate individuals from all types of repression, and society from its blind and rampant consumption. Dada, Surrealism, The Beats, Fluxus, Punk, now the Alt or Crusty are or were the psychogeographers or flaneurs of their era, experiencing the street and the world in real time. They shocked the public with their ambivalence toward societal norms. The Ferals, the communes, and the Earth Liberation Front all fight for these same values. Hard core punk rants about them and they are reinforced through anti-intellectualism, primitivism, DIY, anti-consumerism, and a general disdain and abandonment of the imposed ideals of contemporary society (and in some cases, abandonment altogether). Contemporary society, then or now, never seems to understand (nor desire to) another way of life. Worse yet, it leaves no room for it. Just as the advance of so-called progress crept across the American continent, the advancers perfectly incapable of understanding that the natives were not a regression of their own way of life but were instead contemporaries living an alternate lifestyle, so too the contemporary public holds disdain for anyone who resists the notion of a single family home and a 9-5 job. Consumerism does not only consume materials but also any lifestyle that threatens its autonomy. This is a history of people and ideas that have resisted being chewed up. Identity Change of the Abandoned by Jana Janouskova <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 1.jpg" width="670" height="456" width_o="670" height_o="456" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 1_o.jpg" data-mid="13575395" border="0" align="left"/> One of the biggest questions we face today is what to do with the overwhelming amount of waste. Our consumption-centric society is producing an increasing volume of refuse each and every year. Currently proposed solutions include recycling, refurbishing, and remodeling. While the fast-paced trends of consumerism celebrate the popularity of these ideas, both trash design and recycled fashion increase awareness as well. The trend referred to as upcycling is marketed widely on sustainability awareness websites and on resected fashion and accessory websites.  Upcycling has an advantage over recycling in that instead of writing objects off, squishing them into a pile, and re-using the re-newed material, their existence is rethought and reborn. A new identity is given to upcycled items. While every trend marketed to the public at large may suffer from an influence of superficiality, and face the possibility of an early extinction, I have dug deeper into the idea of upcycling looking for more permanent and valuable content.  What I have found most interesting is when an object which began not being particularly attractive is reborn with more potential, more beauty, more use. Often it is in re-birth that the real value is found. For example, a quarry which was rated as destructive to the environment, presenting a great risk to miners, is now a beautiful landscape being enjoyed for recreation known as the Montello Granite Park. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 2.jpg" width="670" height="456" width_o="670" height_o="456" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 2_o.jpg" data-mid="13575396" caption="(left) Archive of Raymond Granite Company, (right) Photo by Earl Walker" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 3.jpg" width="670" height="456" width_o="670" height_o="456" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 3_o.jpg" data-mid="13575397" caption="Henrique Oliveira" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 4.jpg" width="670" height="456" width_o="670" height_o="456" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/jj 4_o.jpg" data-mid="13575398" caption="Gordon Matta-Clark" border="0" align="left"/> Culture/Hibernate by Zeheng Li Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression. During this process, the object start losing the essence of its existence, as identity, character, spirit, content, and finally it will fall into the permanent sleep – abandoned. On the contrary, this hibernation not the fatal ends for some of them. The lost of quality becomes their re-birth. In this research, there is a different angle to define abandonment and the ideology distortion which caused by the hibernating condition. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig1.jpg" width="670" height="539" width_o="800" height_o="644" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig1_o.jpg" data-mid="13537302" border="0" align="left"/> Beauty of Sleeping Every time when I see sleeping beauty, there is always a question popping out: why the princess’s sleep making the whole palace abandoned? And doesn’t the abandoned palace cast another shadow on the face of our princess and makes her more enchanting? <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig2.jpg" width="670" height="292" width_o="734" height_o="320" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig2_o.jpg" data-mid="13537304" border="0" align="left"/> The ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in Reality The spell enchanted more than just the fairy tale. After hibernating for 37 years, people were talking about eventually abandoning Aruna Shanbaug’s body. And the discussion behind her euthanasia turned Aruna from a pity Indian girl to an ideology theme. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig3.jpg" width="670" height="676" width_o="991" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig3_o.jpg" data-mid="13537305" border="0" align="left"/> Sleeping Apollo When the moon got the first human foot print, it would thought about the discovery was only the first step of abandonment. We landed on the moon and gave the whole event the significant meaning for the whole human beings. But just one dip, we left and put the hibernating spell on it. After Apollo program, the moon was hibernated again and slept for decades. Seems all the loud discussion around Apollo is the preparation of this abandoned situation. But how this would happen? Didn’t we make the noise loud enough? All those news about Apollo program was like telling us how beautiful the princess was. But to the end, moon is not only a satellite. It becomes a symbol of universe exploration, an ideology representation of a country’s ambition. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig4.jpg" width="650" height="529" width_o="650" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig4_o.jpg" data-mid="13537306" border="0" align="left"/> Awakened Hibernation At the same time, a lot of artists want to wake those hibernated object up. Matthew Day Jackson may also sense the emptiness behind this hibernation and he tried pull those ghosts back to wake the abandoned ground up. When we capture the vitality signal from those ghosts, we got the meaning of existence. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig5.jpg" width="670" height="534" width_o="818" height_o="652" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig5_o.jpg" data-mid="13537307" border="0" align="left"/> The same thing happened to Jim Sanborn’s landscape projection. <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig6.jpg" width="670" height="647" width_o="818" height_o="791" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671615/fig6_o.jpg" data-mid="13537308" border="0" align="left"/> When the light creates the geometry on the surface of the mountain which has been in the wild for centuries we start to catch the glimmer of the landscape. It turns the mountain into something we can feel and not the untouchable stone far away. He wakes the wild land. Same thing with Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, they are using the public urban spaces in communities facing social difficulties into monumental works of art. Drop Out by Josh Robinson This is the exploration of a long and ongoing lineage of drop out culture. In this context abandonment is used in the least as a... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/Abandonment-2 http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/Abandonment-2 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:36:28 +0000 UCLA 2671700 Abandonment of Conscience by Emily Meza <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG1.gif" width="450" height="600" width_o="450" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG1_o.gif" data-mid="13537721" caption="Romantic Idea of Virtue" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG2.gif" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG2_o.gif" data-mid="13537722" caption="Autonomous Roles (photo: WPN)" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG3.gif" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG3_o.gif" data-mid="13537723" caption="Organizational Protocol (photo: WPN)" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG4.gif" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG4_o.gif" data-mid="13537725" caption="Compartmentalization of Ethics (photo: Richard Emblin)" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG5.gif" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/emIMG5_o.gif" data-mid="13537728" caption="Absence of Critical Reflection, (photo: Richard Emblin)" border="0" align="left"/> Capitalism, modernism, and institutional bureaucracy have dramatically altered western society. The end of feudalism gave rise to a highly fragmented society. Modern citizens now play many roles, and too often individuals are unaware how attitudes vary to the point of contradiction with each separate task. This compartmentalization of the modern psyche results in individuals living out morally inconsistent lives. Having abandoned individual accountability to a hierarchy of power, we are left with a complex gray zone of consequences. M. works a shift job at a machine gun factory where they produce M16s. Expanding technologies in the workplace means her part in production is simply inspecting formed metal. As an employee, she excels by company standards. She's always on time, efficient, and friendly. She views her work as a job she needs to raise her kids. The meaning of her work at the company is divorced from the values M. holds at home. Outside of work she is part of her church quilting group and sits on the PTA. She just helped organize an awareness week on stopping school violence. However, the artillery from the plant is exported, and almost a third of the products find their way into cases of civil violence. Are M. and her co-workers partially responsible for these consequences by complying with what was asked of them? Capitalism has decisive psychological effects on the individual. In today's society we compartmentalize ethics to suppress moral conflicts between the multiple roles we play. Living in a society with a dispersed chain of power has caused us to abandon individual accountability. Indifferent Disposal by Jacob Semler <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-1.gif" width="570" height="610" width_o="570" height_o="610" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-1_o.gif" data-mid="13537952" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-2.gif" width="570" height="610" width_o="570" height_o="610" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-2_o.gif" data-mid="13537953" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-3.gif" width="570" height="610" width_o="570" height_o="610" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-3_o.gif" data-mid="13537954" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-4.gif" width="584" height="437" width_o="584" height_o="437" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-4_o.gif" data-mid="13537955" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-5.gif" width="570" height="610" width_o="570" height_o="610" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-5_o.gif" data-mid="13537956" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-6.gif" width="570" height="610" width_o="570" height_o="610" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/JS-img-6_o.gif" data-mid="13537957" border="0" align="left"/> My study on the topic of abandonment centralizes around the definition I have created - abandonment: the indifference that is created by a culture when the perceived importance of an entity is evaluated and deemed disposable. It is important to my study that this definition be clear from the beginning, so that I can explain my particular focus and demonstrate the tie that abandonment has to the environment, industry and innovation, economics, and the architectural world at large. My study will also delve into the humanistic side that these different components play, while looking into the organic and inorganic side of consumption and disposal. My preliminary research began with the following components to outline my focus: (1) choosing abandonment to sustain or thrive, (2) objects that are no longer necessary become disposable, and (3) the indifference that a disposable culture creates. This paper will expand on these three components and their relation to abandonment in the man-made environment. Choosing abandonment to sustain or thrive Life presents each of us with periods of time in which items and/or places become extremely important due to the unique conditions and benefits that the item or place offers within a given situation. Although many of these conditions are highly personal, they are often circumstances we place ourselves in that offer opportunities in which we can enrich our lives. Many of these opportunities are sought after even while presenting inherent risk in foreign environments, and yet people are driven to abandon their current course of action for new alternatives. Oftentimes some of the most obvious factors for changing course are economic opportunities, political shifts, social networks, or the willingness to leave all things behind to tap into a new thriving environment. The notion of abandoning a location, a product, an idea, or maybe even an identity to sustain and thrive is not limited to the actions of a single person or family, but can also cross over into the realm of entire industries. This is quite often the case when dealing with the extraction of raw materials, finding consistent sources of power(historically), or being in places where labor is cheap and the local government is willing to cooperate to maximize profits. These practices have been instilled in the American mentality from the colonization of the North American continent by the colonial empires. (Magee 2010) Often due to fluctuations in culture, business, or technology individuals will begin to abandon current practices to seek perceived improved prospects. The choice of abandonment for the purpose of sustaining or thriving relates to architecture through improvements in technology, changing commodities, fluctuations in environmental conditions, and the desire for a fresh start. These changes drive the creation of new building types and towns that are better equipped to house the needs of the given population. Many of these new living or working environments are established to serve communities that are tied to a particular industry (i.e. mining, which is directly connected to the material which is being extracted and the location of the claim). Objects that are no longer necessary become disposable The utility of an object is only as good as its functionality or ability to make you believe that it is worth keeping or reusing. As technology changes more rapidly, objects that are no longer current or compatible become obsolete. This leads to the phasing out of the object and later to the ultimate end of being discarded. An example of this can be seen in the shift from the horse to the tractor, when the implementation of the internal combustion engine was incorporated into the production process, signifying the transition from animal powered production into mechanical powered production. This ultimately drastically changed the economies of scale for many different industries, allowing non-stop work with less overhead on a system that never tired. Objects can vary in size, but are nonetheless items that become unnecessary in times of transition or hardship. For example, during the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in Pennsylvania as retold by Public Broadcasting's American Experience, "evacuation plans...announcement unleashed a wave of panic as residents tossed a few belongings into their cars and sped off. More than 140,000 would eventually flee."(PBS) For the most part, the majority of items that were saved all fit into a suitcase (smaller objects), and the remainder were living things, as well as a mode of transportation(an escape). Even though we amass possessions and objects that we believe are important to the lifestyle we live or desire, in times of crisis the most important things in life (people, memories, and very basic needs) are all that truly matter. The indifference that a disposable culture creates As objects become increasingly readily available and easy to manufacture, it has become easy for our culture to change its views of attachment. The loss of inherent value or lack of understanding of an object's embodied energy, has allowed mankind to detach itself from the life cycle of goods, making separation easy. For example, the amount of disposable products today enables consumers to fixate on the latest version of a product, allowing for complete disregard of its predecessor, which ultimately ends up in a landfill or the ocean. As Heater Rogers states in her book, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, "About 80 percent of U.S. products are used once, then thrown away...95 percent of all plastic, two thirds of all glass containers, and 50 percent of all aluminum beverage can are never recycled; instead they just get burned or buried. " (Roger 2005) While we do not know the extent of the damage we are creating, we are beginning to understand the repercussions that this practice creates. This process is not exclusive to products, but also a current practice among business and industry. The sites, which both business and industry operate on, are often as disposable as the products we throw away. This results in land that becomes sponges for industrial waste and by-products, ultimately leading to oversaturation of toxins rendering the land useless for any other habitation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states, "A Superfund site is an uncontrolled or abandoned place where hazardous waste is located, possibly affecting local ecosystems or people."(EPA 2010) As these sites influence the surrounding areas they pose threats of cross-contamination to the local wildlife and human population. Consequences of this are possibly linked to a variety of cancers and other infectious diseases. Non-Titled Citizens by Kris Fuentes <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/Vita 1.jpg" width="452" height="445" width_o="452" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/Vita 1_o.jpg" data-mid="13538005" caption="photo: Torben Eskerod" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/Vita 2.jpg" width="452" height="445" width_o="452" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/Vita 2_o.jpg" data-mid="13538006" caption="photo: Torben Eskerod" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/Vita 3.jpg" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2671700/Vita 3_o.jpg" data-mid="13538008" caption="photo: Torben Eskerod" border="0" align="left"/> It is said that when you are committed to living your life in Vita, you have committed to death. A patient, during an interview, has described herself as, "living but not living." When a patient is admitted to Vita, they lose their identity. The medication that is provided is never an accurate prescription that they need. It is mostly offered to the patients to keep them at a tranquil state as they slowly deteriorate into nothingness. In this medicated state of being, there identity is lost. The volunteers can only recall who dropped off the patients at Vita, but otherwise, the patients cannot remember their past, and remain in the name that has been given to them by the volunteers. There have been accounts of patients fleeting the campus walls, but shortly after, they return, because they have nowhere else to go. They slowly live their lives, day by day without purpose, waiting for their death. This observation has lead discussion regarding anonymity within objects as a consequence of social abandonment. Abandonment of Conscience by Emily Meza Capitalism, modernism, and institutional bureaucracy have dramatically altered western society. The end of feudalism gave... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/Edge-Events-Mobile-AL http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/Edge-Events-Mobile-AL Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:51:51 +0000 UCLA 2150281 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_0.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_0_o.jpg" data-mid="10730588" border="0" align="left"/> EDGE EVENTS CONNECTING A CITY TO ITS ECOLOGICAL HERITAGE Mobile, Alabama ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY In a city where stable population and employment growth defy recent national trends, Mobile suffers from a lack of cultural and environmental stability rather than economic neglect. Opposites co-exist with an extensive waterfront, but no public access; a food culture dependent on the bay, but an increasingly polluted ecosystem; a rich local history, but a lack of community. The fishing and petrochemical industries have shaped Mobile into the city it is today. Thirty percent of the seafood eaten in the United States comes from the Gulf of Mexico, moving through cities like Houston, Gulfport, and Mobile. The commercial fish and shellfish harvest from the five states bordering the Gulf average $600 million per year. The petrochemical industry is responsible for the largest oil spill in history, BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, which leaked five million barrels of oil into the Gulf and caused long-term damage to regional ecosystems. Drilling has begun again in the Gulf, with over 800 oil platforms and rigs still active. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_oil_2.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_oil_2_o.jpg" data-mid="10792724" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_oil_1.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_oil_1_o.jpg" data-mid="10792725" border="0" align="left"/> CONTAMINATION OF SUPPLY As American’s ninth largest port, Mobile is a place of transfer and distribution of goods and resources. As the United States remain dependent on fossil fuels to sustain its cities, coal and oil remain two of Mobile’s most valuable commodities. This economic stability yields damaging consequences. The production of fossil fuels contaminates the regional ecosystem on all levels, pollution from the petro-chemical industry has created a hazardous urban environment <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_04.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_04_o.jpg" data-mid="10730592" border="0" align="left"/> MOBILE OFFERS PROTECTION Mobile Bay is formed as a natural estuary pulled inland from the sea. Its shape not only offered protection to its coast from drifting BP oil, but also refuge to marine wildlife. With neighboring cities like Bayou le Batre, Dauphin Island, and Gulf Shore were heavily damaged after the spill, Mobile has become a vital zone for immediate remediation. The coast line that boarders mobile is an ideal location to restore the local fish population while the proposed 30 years of environmental clean-up take place along exposed portions of the gulf. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_06.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_06_o.jpg" data-mid="10730597" border="0" align="left"/> RESTORING COASTLINES AND COMMUNITIES In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, a potential exists to not only restore the region’s waterfront ecology in the wake of such a disaster, but encourage a larger effort to reconnect communities to the waterfront it continually neglects. Reinforcing an established and existing process of creating man-made oyster reefs to reduce erosion, filter water contaminants and encourage organism diversity, a new initiative seeks to expand this process and engage both the city of Mobile as well as the regional ecology of Mobile Bay. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_05.jpg" width="670" height="230" width_o="670" height_o="230" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_05_o.jpg" data-mid="10730593" border="0" align="left"/> RECLAIMING THE WATER’S EDGE Existing programs are in place to fight the pollution and improve local ecosystems. 100-1000.org is a regional organization that has begun placing oyster reefs along the shoreline to increase ecological redundancy, provide new marine habitat, and increase the speed of recovery in the post-BP environment. This initiative brings communal engagement to the shores of mobile for the installation reef infrastructure and has larger ambitions of creating ambitions to create awareness. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_08.jpg" width="670" height="272" width_o="670" height_o="272" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_08_o.jpg" data-mid="10730601" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_07.jpg" width="670" height="237" width_o="670" height_o="237" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_07_o.jpg" data-mid="10730599" border="0" align="left"/> ICON AND EXPERIENCE The 100-100.org initiative seeks to translate the installation of oyster reefs along Mobile’s waterfront to an experiential and spatial concept to encourage city participation in the physical restoration of the city’s ecology. Due to the topography of the coastline, and the fact that most of the shores of mobile lack public access and are largely inhabited by industrial properties, very few people are able to see the reef restoration. Re-purposing the urban waterfront through public engagement, a gradual transformation of a city’s neglected asset intends to encourage a naturalized, and systematic, reclamation of the city’s hard industrial edge. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_09.jpg" width="670" height="263" width_o="670" height_o="263" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_09_o.jpg" data-mid="10730602" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_010.jpg" width="670" height="272" width_o="670" height_o="272" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_010_o.jpg" data-mid="10730603" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_011.jpg" width="670" height="331" width_o="670" height_o="331" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150281/Mobile_011_o.jpg" data-mid="10730605" border="0" align="left"/> Full research report: Mobile, AL from Culture Now on Vimeo. EDGE EVENTS CONNECTING A CITY TO ITS ECOLOGICAL HERITAGE Mobile, Alabama ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY In a city where stable population and employment growth defy recent... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/Productive-Landscapes-Flint-MI http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/Productive-Landscapes-Flint-MI Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:26:46 +0000 UCLA 2150119 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_0.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_0_o.jpg" data-mid="10729806" border="0" align="left"/> Productive Landscapes Transforming Vacancy Flint, Michigan WHY SAVE FLINT? The city has the highest crime rate in the United States. It has lost half its population since 1960. The automotive manufacturing industry that once supported the city is all but gone. The city has six police officers for 100,000 people. One-third of the city has been abandoned. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_02.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_02_o.jpg" data-mid="10729808" border="0" align="left"/> ASSETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE Flint has a number of large foundations with over five billion dollars in combined assets committed to helping the local population. It has major educational institutions. It has an excess of vacant urban land. It has well-connected highway and rail infrastructure. It is in the center of Michigan, the second most agriculturally diverse state in the nation, whose agro-industry generates sixty billion dollars for the state economy. Flint’s social, economic, and cultural assets lie in its agricultural potential and the recycling of post-industrial wasteland into Productive Landscapes. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_03.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_03_o.jpg" data-mid="10729811" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_04.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_04_o.jpg" data-mid="10729812" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_05.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_05_o.jpg" data-mid="10729813" border="0" align="left"/> SPACE POSITIVE The territory Flint occupies is too large, with too little population to fill it. The city is transforming into a town and the spaces opened up by de-urbanization have the potential to be the most valuable. Flint’s new empty spaces range in size from quarter-acre suburban lots to the two hundred acre Buick City automotive manufacturing site, creating a complex urban fabric of vacancy. The Genesee County Land Bank, one of the first in the nation, manages over ten thousand foreclosed homes and vacant lots around Flint, tearing down empty houses and selling under-utilized lots for private and public use at a fraction of their original cost. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_09.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_09_o.jpg" data-mid="10729824" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_06.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_06_o.jpg" data-mid="10729816" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_07.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_07_o.jpg" data-mid="10729818" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_08.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_08_o.jpg" data-mid="10729822" border="0" align="left"/> 3 Types of vacancy THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE Flint’s new agricultural economy is developed over three distinct phases: Ecological Remediation, Agricultural Education, and Agricultural Production. Phase one, Remediation, uses modified Poplar trees to clean polluted soil. Phase two, Education, trains a qualified agricultural workforce, and phase three, Production, transforms Flint’s surplus of space into an economic asset by developing micro- and macro-scaled agriculture on Flint’s empty land. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_116.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_116_o.jpg" data-mid="10729839" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_010.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_010_o.jpg" data-mid="10729825" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_011.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_011_o.jpg" data-mid="10729826" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_012.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_012_o.jpg" data-mid="10729828" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_013.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_013_o.jpg" data-mid="10729829" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_014.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_014_o.jpg" data-mid="10729831" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_015.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_015_o.jpg" data-mid="10729832" border="0" align="left"/> 3 Types of production NEW AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY Flint’s value lies at the regional scale. Its new Productive Landscapes can feed over five million people, easily meeting the food demand of central Michigan while developing local economies of production and distribution. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_016.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_016_o.jpg" data-mid="10729833" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_017.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_017_o.jpg" data-mid="10729837" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_018.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2150119/Flint_018_o.jpg" data-mid="10729838" border="0" align="left"/> Productive Landscapes Transforming Vacancy Flint, Michigan WHY SAVE FLINT? The city has the highest crime rate in the United States. It has lost half its... http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/The-Next-American-Dream-Tucson-AZ http://cargocollective.com/UCLA/following/UCLA/The-Next-American-Dream-Tucson-AZ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:17:15 +0000 UCLA 2146258 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_1.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_1_o.jpg" data-mid="10709871" border="0" align="left"/> THE NEXT AMERICAN DREAM COMMUNITY, ENERGY AND THE FUTURE OF SUBURBIA Tucson, Arizona Tucson is Growing A city of expansive growth since its inception in 1853, Tucson has historically been a coveted landscape from the purchase and annexation of previous Mexican territory in the mid 19th century to the proliferation of military and aerospace operations in the early twentieth century, to the more recent population surge in search of abundant land and sun. Tucson and the surrounding Sun Belt has become a destination for Americans escaping the post-industrial colder climates for a new start. The city embodies the pursuit of the American Dream. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_12.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_12_o.jpg" data-mid="10709875" border="0" align="left"/> 5,600 ACRES IS ANNEXED EACH YEAR TO KEEP UP WITH THE GROWTH <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_13.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_13_o.jpg" data-mid="10709878" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_14.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_14_o.jpg" data-mid="10709880" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_15.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_15_o.jpg" data-mid="10709881" border="0" align="left"/> TUCSON IS AN UNSUSTAINABLE CITY SHARING RESOURCES WITHIN AN ENTIRE REGION OF UNSUSTAINABLE CITIES Positive Growth can have Negative Consequences. Restricted only by the constraints of its geography and the reach of its infrastructure, Tucson is expanding at a pace quicker than strategies can be planned or implemented. The city’s continual expansion challenges not only the control of its urban sprawl, but the regulation of its natural resources. Land is developed at an alarming rate to keep up with burgeoning demand. Electricity, linked both to water scarcity and environmental exploitation, is the single most important issue facing the Southwest today. Breaking Points The suburban hope of the American Dream has been replaced by the blighted, homogenous reality of urban sprawl. Plentiful land, inexpensive energy and the universal pursuit of happiness has promoted a lifestyle, and a city, that is unsustainable. Solar power is THE MOST underutilized ENERGY SOURCE in the Southwest Empower the Periphery By developing a new productive solar surface of the city, Tucson can support the next American Dream where community health transcends individual wealth. The installation of solar generation surfaces within existing city voids will create secondary social spaces and a new city identity. As a result, Tucson becomes energy neutral and a leader/an example for/of in energy innovation and suburban transformation. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_16.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_16_o.jpg" data-mid="10709882" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_17.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_17_o.jpg" data-mid="10709884" border="0" align="left"/> The Southwest has not lost its attraction. In perfect balance between nature and its scattered, if at all, settlements, this landscape attracts individuals and movements alike. Whether it was made to house millions of people without a responding lifestyle, seems unlikely. “Once upon a time in the West, a group of American artists went into the remote landscape to push beyond the conventional boundaries of both the art world and the artwork”, writes Anne M. Wagner in her introduction to Inside Out - Art’s New Terrain* (Artforum XLIII, No. 10, summer 2005). <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_18.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_18_o.jpg" data-mid="10709889" border="0" align="left"/> At the same time, with its landscape already hinting at the next onslaught, the Southwest’s ideology of extreme space and resulting expansion of infrastructures from aquifers to roads, inspired those spot-on comments that quickly and strangely enough, made history as Utopias, but really described the obvious near futures that have materialized since. Today, the Supersurface* (Superstudio APX) is established, Instant City* (Archigram APX) has left behind overstimulated mass culture, and life in No-Stop City* (Archizoon APX) is why today, we navigate via satellite. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_19.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="670" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Tucson_lg_19_o.jpg" data-mid="10709904" border="0" align="left"/> Now that we view places from above, virtually zooming in, it is not only time to reflect on what message our landscapes and locations send but how they can be programmed to communicate and produce according to our needs - energy, that is. Land supports humanity, flora and fauna - this is an ancient idea and natural process. What if our times applied the obvious changes to continue this flow? As infrastructure, the Very Large Array* has become part of the landscape as much as wind or solar farms, or Walter de Maria’s Lightning Fields* - as art. We could differentiate between the definitions of Land Art and Infrastructure, but do we really still have such conversations? <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Re_render_3.jpg" width="670" height="421" width_o="670" height_o="421" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/154191/2146258/Re_render_3_o.jpg" data-mid="10709019" border="0" align="left"/> Extended research: THE NEXT AMERICAN DREAM COMMUNITY, ENERGY AND THE FUTURE OF SUBURBIA Tucson, Arizona Tucson is Growing A city of expansive growth since its inception in 1853,...