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Brunas, Sophie

In the gridded fields of the Canadian Prairies, agricultural activity has left lasting marks on the region’s landscapes and ecosystems. Survey grids, railway lines, and irrigation systems have fragmented vital prairie habitats, pushing grasslands and wetlands to the periphery of productive landscapes. This thesis finds itself in the territory of the map, celebrating the complexity of Southern Saskatchewan’s agricultural terrain. As a critical threshold, the project speculates on the future of the Prairies through the design of new tools for land management using subversions of existing infrastructure that guide ecological succession and challenge traditional models of productivity. With the drawing as fertile ground, each intervention reveals the Prairie landscape’s potential as a site of rich entanglement and connectivity for human and non-human inhabitants.

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448807

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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