RISD Thesis / Advisor: Jason Wood
Artifacts embody the physical and cultural geography of Place. An Artifact is an armature that takes remnants of the world and recomposes it into a new narrative. It is a narrative built on the foundation of its past and expresses the genius loci, the spirit of a place. When the artifact is uprooted from its point of origin, it must readjust its position and build new memories by adapting the foreign and transforming it into the familiar. Doing so, the artifact consumes a new memory, enriching its senses. These embodied memories then help it project its imagination into the future.
How can architecture redefine the shaping of a memory or an experience? And how can architecture become the artifact?
The research began with a series of drawing and models that explored the elasticity of memory.
