Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2019
Capstone Advisor
Anne Munly
Honors Reader
Cathryn Newton
Capstone Major
Architecture
Capstone College
Architecture
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
yes
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Architecture | Historic Preservation and Conservation | Other Architecture
Abstract
This thesis puts forward the provocation to employ spoliation as a form of preservation and as a tool of locus making and identity mediation. This is done by syncretizing architectural artifacts and remnants from different timelines, oscillating between operations of defamiliarization and memorialization. This thesis test and explores its contention on a site of contested memory, where the idea of reclaiming cultural ownership is done through a formal, spatial and orderly spoliation. The artifacts ‘on site’ and ‘off site’ is relayed through different mediums and dimensions through parameters of resolution and assimilation.
Recommended Citation
Gan, Amelia, "Speculative Spoliation: Spolia as an Instrument of Locus Making and Identity Mediation" (2019). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 1320.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/1320
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