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An Authentic Reality, Genevieve Dominiak, Hannah Rachel Michaelson
An Authentic Reality, Genevieve Dominiak, Hannah Rachel Michaelson
Architecture Thesis Prep
We, as a society, have chosen to erase and neglect the problematic images and narratives of these wastelands from our, American, history. Therefore, the thesis aims to offer an authentic reality in which Human Ecology coexists with the previous erasures of Toxic Ecology. Currently, these wastelands are portrayed as foreign entities that American companies engage with, rarely do the cameras turn to our own backyard though. Rather than remediate these industrial sites and thus revive nature, the work looks to coexist with the consequences of our past and ongoing present through myth.
When challenged with the imagery of these damaged …