From the arid ground up
This thesis explores constructed water landscapes and the attitudes creating them in the Salton Sea area, which is located in the converge of the Mojave and the Sonoran Deserts in southeast California. With the focus on water constructions the thesis embraces the method of the Deviant Transect,...
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| Formato: | Second cycle, A2E |
| Lenguaje: | sueco Inglés |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8500/ |
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| author | Stevensson, Linn |
| author_browse | Stevensson, Linn |
| author_facet | Stevensson, Linn |
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| collection | Epsilon Archive for Student Projects |
| description | This thesis explores constructed water landscapes and the
attitudes creating them in the Salton Sea area, which is
located in the converge of the Mojave and the Sonoran
Deserts in southeast California. With the focus on water
constructions the thesis embraces the method of the
Deviant Transect, under development by the landscape
architect researchers Gini Lee and Lisa Diedrich, with
Ellen Braae. The method aims at enabling designers to
capture qualities that can only be perceived on site, such
as dynamics, relationships and atmospheres, in order to
support site-specific transformation of sites.
This thesis challenges Antropocentrism, inspired by
writings of Dirk Sijmons (2014) and Saskia Sassen (2014).
Amongst others, Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn’s (2005)
theories on site and site specificity, are studied, along
with literature on grass root movements and societal
change suggested by Grace Lee Boggs (2011) .
This work examines water constructions in the Salton
Sea area, acknowledging them in two ways: as land
colonization with themes such as water systems, industrial
scaled farming, and sub-urban settlements, and as oppositions
to conventional land use practices, with themes
of the desert as a garden, local food, and the culture of
mobile homes.
The resulting findings are the basis for a design proposal
that acknowledges what is already in place by introducing
a network of test sites. The aim is to use landscape
architectural skills in order to engage in a speculative
form of regional design, enabling visionary organizing
rather than providing finished blueprints. |
| format | Second cycle, A2E |
| id | RepoSLU8500 |
| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| language | Swedish Inglés |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publishDateSort | 2015 |
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| spelling | RepoSLU85002015-09-23T15:33:00Z https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8500/ From the arid ground up Stevensson, Linn Landscape architecture This thesis explores constructed water landscapes and the attitudes creating them in the Salton Sea area, which is located in the converge of the Mojave and the Sonoran Deserts in southeast California. With the focus on water constructions the thesis embraces the method of the Deviant Transect, under development by the landscape architect researchers Gini Lee and Lisa Diedrich, with Ellen Braae. The method aims at enabling designers to capture qualities that can only be perceived on site, such as dynamics, relationships and atmospheres, in order to support site-specific transformation of sites. This thesis challenges Antropocentrism, inspired by writings of Dirk Sijmons (2014) and Saskia Sassen (2014). Amongst others, Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn’s (2005) theories on site and site specificity, are studied, along with literature on grass root movements and societal change suggested by Grace Lee Boggs (2011) . This work examines water constructions in the Salton Sea area, acknowledging them in two ways: as land colonization with themes such as water systems, industrial scaled farming, and sub-urban settlements, and as oppositions to conventional land use practices, with themes of the desert as a garden, local food, and the culture of mobile homes. The resulting findings are the basis for a design proposal that acknowledges what is already in place by introducing a network of test sites. The aim is to use landscape architectural skills in order to engage in a speculative form of regional design, enabling visionary organizing rather than providing finished blueprints. 2015-09-22 Second cycle, A2E NonPeerReviewed application/pdf sv https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8500/7/stevensson_l_150922.pdf Stevensson, Linn, 2015. From the arid ground up : in Search of water constructions in the Salton Sea Area. Second cycle, A2E. Alnarp: (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101) <https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/view/divisions/OID-644.html> urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-4858 eng |
| spellingShingle | Landscape architecture Stevensson, Linn From the arid ground up |
| title | From the arid ground up |
| title_full | From the arid ground up |
| title_fullStr | From the arid ground up |
| title_full_unstemmed | From the arid ground up |
| title_short | From the arid ground up |
| title_sort | from the arid ground up |
| topic | Landscape architecture |
| url | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8500/ https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8500/ |