Thesis Highlights

"Tidal Shift"

Amanda bond and chelsea kilgore, 2024

“Tidal Shift: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Futures for Coastal Louisiana”

Industrialisation, colonisation and globalisation have anthropocentrised coastal Louisiana's occupational strategy, furthering the exploitation of land, the disruption of natural systems, the over-extraction of resources and the acceleration of the climate crisis, all in favour of the human.

The design of a post-anthropocentric coastal model speculates on a future epoch that allows the earth to heal through the consolidation of settlement, the modification of the occupational datum and the regeneration of the land – the human is ultimately recognised as an interdependent species rather than domineering.

Tidal Shift aims to question what it would take, as a human species and design profession, to re-imagine the ways we live, so that we can then change our collective human impact on the planet.

Faculty Thesis Directors: Cordula Roser Gray and Todd Erlandson

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