REACH OUT
An undergraduate thesis project under advisor Laura Miller.
Fully titled: ABOUT JUNK & HANGING OUT
Assemblies of Upcycled Infrastucture in the Greater Toronto Area; Renaissance of DIY & Low-Tech Building to Catalyze New Suburbanism.
Ivan Ilich’s writings, which are used as part of the beginning research for the year-long project, argue that people desire to give shape to infrastructure according to their own taste. Conviviality becomes a primary concern of the thesis, defined by Ilich as the joy borne of the power to be able to make things, and to put them to use in caring for and about others. The project relies on the idea of giving suburban residents, already interested in renovating on their private lots, the tools to do so in the public realm.
Published in SCAFFOLD* Journal’s First Edition,
and presented at the Journal’s launch on October 25th, 2024.