Representing Material Futures aims to understand how combining material explorations with story and making can grant designers an opening into a place. It asks how expanded speculation techniques can advance the field of landscape architecture and how designers might dig deeper into our place-based fascinations and material interests. The heart of the project is about developing an intimate and relational design process.
By inhabiting the character of an ancient Arctic fox and by conducting ice experiments, image-making, writing, and graphic noveling, this thesis considers what kinds of meaning are lost when ice disappears in a changing climate.
