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Peitong Zhang

Peitong Zhang

Los Angeles, CA, US

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The Field of Leftover

“The Anthropocene… is an idea that emerges from earth sciences, but it is also cultural: indeed the geological epoch of the Holocene (the last 11,700 years) marks the period in which most of the world’s major civilisations and cultures have emerged; it includes both the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions. To assert that the planet has moved ‘beyond the Holocene’ is to assert that humanity (indeed all life) has entered a new cultural and physical space that has not been previously experienced. Questions of how humans live in a planet with changed atmosphere, oceans, land systems, cities and climates are moral as well as physical. The premise of this architectural design studio was to develop research-based-practices and practice-based-research drawing from experimental material, spatial and performative modes of working with the outcome being an expanded notion of practice, and individual and collective works, in response to critical issues brought about by climate change in this new epoch: the Anthropocene.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Tucson, AZ, US