Title
Document Type
Thesis, Senior
Degree
B. ARCH
Date
Spring 2020
Keywords
ad hoc, agency, context, emancipation, equality estrangement, exclusion, excess, icons, incomplete, parafiction, tension, zones of exception and inclusion
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture
Description/Abstract
This thesis uses preexisting local phenomena in Dubai to construct a near-future scenario where political systems are exploited to demonstrate the politics of aesthetics and their ability to alter the context and its existing socio-economic infrastructure. By imposing unfamiliar forms and systems, familiar aesthetics are recast to redistribute the sensible and create a new reality out of underlying social, economic, and cultural power structures. As a result, form, composition, and aesthetics can begin to operate politically to uncover hidden realities and project alternative futures.
Recommended Citation
Ahmed, Nashwah and Gupta, Prerit, "Hidden Realities" (2020). Architecture Senior Theses. 466.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/466
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