Threshold Archipelago
Fall 2018 Harvard Graduate School of Design Critic: Sergio Lopez-Piniero Collaborators: Kira Clingen, Xing Yue Huang, Ui Jun Song Location: Boston, MA This studio explored new ways of designing for climate change in the Boston Harbor calling for designs of the new commons. Our project asks, what does public space look like when the basic elements of enjoying it are threatened? Using three climate sensitive pathogens as agents in the design of urban form, we propose a new set of thresholds defined not only by a shifting coastline but by the climatic tipping points for these pathogen populations and the everyday experiences that they threaten. This project emerged through three phases, mapping and analytic sections, prototypes, and a final archipelago of new islands shaped by three dyanmic ‘landscape machines’.