dc.contributor.advisor |
Majzoub, Raafat |
dc.contributor.author |
Yamin, Nicol |
dc.date.accessioned |
2020-09-21T07:26:21Z |
dc.date.available |
2020-09-21T07:26:21Z |
dc.date.issued |
9/21/2020 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/21871 |
dc.description.abstract |
This dissertation tries to understand processes of reality production, and embarks on an exercise of world building within a paradigm of Arabfuturism. It is a personal attempt at liberation from the cultural practices in the Arab Word that continue to resonate within a framework of nostalgia, tragedy and westernization. One that is surpassed with the creation and manifestation of the Department of Earth Field Studies, a fictional institution fueled by the intuitions of the body. It is a de-colonizing agent that exists in the form of a generative instrument of architectural, artistic and literary production unable to exist in current contexts described as “real.” Breeding a momentum of work beyond oppressive narratives, leading to places of wander, experimentation, collaboration, beautiful mistakes and new futures to look forward to. |
dc.language.iso |
en_US |
dc.subject |
fiction |
dc.subject |
arabfuturism |
dc.subject |
futurist |
dc.subject |
narrative architecture |
dc.subject |
decolonization |
dc.subject |
speculative |
dc.subject |
conceptual framework |
dc.subject |
system design |
dc.subject |
experimental institution |
dc.subject |
intuitive practices |
dc.subject |
liberation |
dc.subject |
Arab world |
dc.subject |
world-building |
dc.title |
Earth Field Studies |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Department of Architecture and Design |
dc.contributor.faculty |
Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut |