UCLA AUD's Akshada Muley, Neha Oswal, and Aishwarya Rajasekar Narrativize Plastic Waste

2020-07-14T12:57:00-04:00

Archinect recently connected with Akshada Muley, Neha Oswal, and Aishwarya Rajasekar, recent graduate students of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's Master of Architecture II program. Together we unpack their final project: FOREVER. With the proposal, the trio aims to address the issues of plastic use and waste by creating a new narrative to counter the "anthropocentric way we often describe the city." By anthropomorphizing how a city and its waste can be described, they portray how the "world is shared with many other non-human entities, each with their own tendencies and dispositions."

Archinect connected with Muley, Oswal, and Rajasekar as they explain their use of film as a medium to explain their project. They add, "our story makes plastic viscerally and emotionally present in the city. Here plastic is no longer the much-maligned victim, the neglected creature made to serve us, and discarded when no longer needed." Advised by Natasha Sandmeier & Nathan Su of UCLA's IDEAs Ent...

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UCLA AUD's Akshada Muley, Neha Oswal, and Aishwarya Rajasekar Narrativize Plastic Waste