POST-APOCALYPTIC ARCHITECTURE AND HUMAN ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
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You will find the completed introduction and first chapter that you have written attached, I have done some editing and further reading. I will attach the new books and quotes that I would like you to use. We shall continue on to chapter two. We start off by talking about the fact that there are two options: 1) to try and avert the apocalypse; or 2) the UN states we only have 11 years before the damage done becomes irreparable, so we have to prepare for the apocalypse as it is 99% happening. This is something that everyone is too scared to talk about, but is what needs to be happening. In this chapter I hypothesise that of course there are many different types of environmental apocalypses (toxic gases, drought etc), but I look at if the majority of the earths surface becomes flooded and I will discuss the various consequences of this and the philosophy behind the end of the world. We will have to live with less possessions, less storage, smaller living areas etc. So we shall focus on just one element of the apocalypse (flooding). In the second half of this chapter I want to investigate various famous and also more obscure responses that have been developed to flooding in architecture, for example floating homes/on stilts/flooding defences. Will everyone live in individual small floating pods? will it be large walled off cities surrounded by water? Sources I would like you to look at and quotes to include (not necessarily all of them): 1)”Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the end of the world” by Timothy Morton, some interesting quotes: “The end of the world has already occurred…April 1784, when James Watt patented the steam engine, an act that commenced the depositing of carbon in Earths crust….the world also ended in 1945, in Trinity, New Mexico, where the Manhattan Project tested Gadget, the first atom bomb…” page 7 “…Global warming deniers deniers, who assert, rhitly, that one can never directly prove the human causes of global warming, just as I cannot prove that this bullet you fire into my head will kill me …” page 7 “…since the raw machinery of capitalism is reactive rather than proactive, it might contain a flaw that makes it unable to address the ecological emergency fully. Capitalism builds on existing objects such as “raw materials”.” Page 21 2) The uninhabitable Earth, a story of the future” by David Wallace-Wells 3)http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/journal/27/apocalypse/ 4)https://www.coroflot.com/moishoi/Architectural-Thesis-Post-Apocalyptic-Architecture-An-Urban-Settlement-at-Sea-Mumbai-India 5)https://www.academia.edu/4723635/Post_Apocalyptic_Architecture 6)”Nothing Like New: Our Post-Apocalyptic Imagination as Utopian Desire” by Amy Murphy 7)https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/design-for-a-green-future ( in the third chapter I will design my own response,
POST-APOCALYPTIC ARCHITECTURE AND HUMAN ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE