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PEAT/TIME

Parry, Mackenzie

Peatlands make up 3% of the world's land surface but store 30% of all terrestrial carbon in their soils due to organic matter accumulation, making them significant carbon sinks. They host a unique habitat for plants that thrive in soggy, oxygen-poor conditions, and as these plants go through cycles of life and decay, they contribute to the slow accumulation of peat—accumulating and forming through deep time. Burns Bog is the largest raised bog on the West Coast of the Americas, located in Delta, BC, adjacent to the Fraser River. Extractive colonial timescapes have drastically altered the ecology of the bog and restricted Indigenous relations to the land. This project examines how designers can make a visible timescape of non-human processes within damaged and altered ecologies. How can ritual and community deepen the network of care for such places? Thickening our understanding of burns bog and what care within a peat timescape can look like by fostering a deeper connection to the land through ritual and community-building experiences.

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University of British Columbia. LARC 598

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448814

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

Unreviewed

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