Earth Field Studies
| dc.contributor.advisor | Majzoub, Raafat | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yamin, Nicol | |
| 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 | |
| dc.date | 2020 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-21T07:26:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-21T07:26:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09-20T21:00:00Z | |
| 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.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10938/21871 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| 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 |