Mapping Polyphonies: Examining multispecies assemblges in Mietoinen Bay
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School of Arts, Design and Architecture |
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2023
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ma-ark
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en
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123
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This master thesis studies architectural graphics as a device of representing landscapes as multispecies assemblages. The work studies applying posthumanist philosophy and multispecies thinking in landscape architecture. In the theoretical framework, I am laying down foundations for adopting a multispecies/non-anthropocentric way of approaching the landscape. The theoretical framework examines concepts such as non-human agency, assemblage thinking, arts of noticing and more-than-human storytelling through the work of scholars such as Timothy Morton, Anna L. Tsing, Jane Bennett, Baptiste Morizot and Emanuele Coccia. In the third chapter of the thesis, I am opening the working process conducted during the research process. The fourth chapter of the thesis is a study of the wider context and the development of the landscape. The fifth chapter, the artistic production part of the thesis, focuses on examining the dynamics of three landscape assemblages found from the research area with the help of architectural graphics. The three types of illustrations, titled as “living landscapes”, “multispecies entanglements” and “ways of inhabiting” open different orientations to see the landscape as an active assemblage. In the conclusions, I am reflecting the possibilities and purposes of architectural graphics as a form of multispecies storytelling and contemplating on landscape architects’ role as contributors to the emerging ecological paradigm.Description
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Lähde, ElisaThesis advisor
Bracke, BjörnKeywords
assemblage, multispecies thinking, architecture graphics, crisis of sensibility, Anna Tsing, entanglements, non-human agency