Earth Field Studies

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.