Against the Ultimate Spinach
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
alternative: A Heterotopic Vision for the Nearby Far Away
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Birch, Patrick William Leslie
issued: 2021-05-07T16:28:07Z
issued: 2020-12-23
description: Scattered throughout the Strait of Georgia, which separates Vancouver Island from mainland British Columbia, are the province’s Gulf Islands. These are sites of extreme endemism and cultural diversity. One such place, at the northern end of this fragmented chain, is Hornby Island. A longstanding arts hub initially characterized by the creative energies of draft dodgers, counter culturalists and hippie intelligentsia who flocked to the island in the ’60s. Part rebellion, part escapist reformation, Hornby Island’s arts culture stands apart from others in the Gulf Islands in that it encompasses both the traditional fine arts and numerous unorthodox architectural explorations. Yet, today the island’s popularity as a tourist destination and the ever-increasing ease of access to its shores risks overtaking the memory and methods of the people who helped develop it. As established artisans age and pass on; and property values continue to rise, limiting entry for their successors, a void begins to grow that risks the erosion of localized cultural and craft memory in its vital role as a touchstone of this rural community. In an effort to contravene such a decline this project proposes a series of speculative design interventions intimately informed by local cultural practices and material ecologies. These constructs positing that the preservation of craft knowledge and freedom of action on the island is as much about one’s agency in the creation of their space as it is in the creation of their art.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/78188
note: AGAINST THE ULTIMATE SPINACH:A HETEROTOPIC VISION FOR THE NEARBY FAR AWAYbyPatrick William Leslie BirchB.Sc. (Biology), Simon Fraser University, 2012M.Sc. (Design + Make), Architectural Association School of Architecture, 2020 SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTSfor the DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARCHITECTUREin THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMCommittee:Adam Rysanek (Chair)Bo Helliwell (External)Sophie Maguire (External)Stuart Lodge (External) Accepted as conforming to the required standardAdam RysanekThe University of British Columbia December 2020 ©AbstractScattered throughout the Strait of Georgia, which separates Vancouver Island from mainland British Columbia, are the province’s Gulf Islands. These are sites of extreme endemism and cultural diversity. One such place, at the northern end of this fragmented chain, is Hornby Island. A longstanding arts hub initially characterized by the creative energies of draft dodgers, counter culturalists and hippie intelligentsia who flocked to the island in the ’60s. Part rebellion, part escapist reformation, Hornby Island’s arts culture stands apart from others in the Gulf Islands in that it encompasses both the traditional fine arts and numerous unorthodox architectural explorations. Yet, today the island’s popularity as a tourist destination and the ever-increasing ease of access to its shores risks over-taking the memory and methods of the people who helped develop it. As established artisans age and pass on; and property values continue to rise, limiting entry for their successors, a void begins to grow that risks the erosion of localized cultural and craft memory in its vital role as a touch-stone of this rural community. In an effort to contravene such a decline this project proposes a series of speculative design interventions inti-mately informed by local cultural practices and material ecologies. These constructs positing that the prese…
has type: Graduating Project
spatial: Hornby Island (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0397319
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
subject: Island, Arts, Memory
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78188