Chaos Design : Designing for Change, with Change
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Kwok, Jonathan
issued: 2024-05-03T14:02:27Z
issued: 2024-05
description: The graduate project explores chaos theory as a design framework for landscape architecture and other fields of design. It is argued that due to the Anthropocene, the economic, social, and ecological systems are hyper-connected with one another, however it is the economic system that is dictating social welfare and ecological health. This connection of systems create a situation where urban planning and landscape design is highly dependent on monetary goals of profit and cost saving. The overarching inquiry examines chaos theory’s potential to challenge economic-centric systems, to address social needs, and offer to sustainable solutions to climate change. Design interventions will mimic chaotic behaviors in complex adaptive systems. The interventions will take form as a zine booklet for users to manifest their needs in their landscape. Oppenheimer Park, in Vancouver, BC, is selected to experiment on how these interventions will unfold into society. The system encompassing Oppenheimer Park will be modeled as a strange attractor. Design interventions will be used to alter the attractor’s parameters to test how it will behave in a simulation, giving landscape architects a framework on on how their design goals may impact landscape interactions.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/88178
note: Chaos Design: Designing for Change,with Change.Student : Jonathan KwokAdvisor : Sara JacobsUniversi ty of Br i t ish Columbia , School of Archi tecture and Landscape Archi tecture.2023 - 20243ABSTRACT 4 INTRODUCTION 5 LITERATURE REVIEW 7 CHAOS THEORY - BIFURCATIONS - EMERGENCE 8 COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 10 THE ECONOMIC-CENTRIC SYSTEM AND THE CAPITALIST PARADIGM 11 CONCLUSION 12 PRECEDENT STUDIES 14 STOLON MESH 2023 15 PAINT DRYING 2016 17 FOLLY FOREST 2022 19 PRECEDENT CONCLUSION 21SITE MATTERS 22 OPPENHEIMER PARK 27 SITE ANALYSIS 30 SITE REVIEW 38 SITE FUTURES 41CONCEPT ISSUE 42CONCEPT STATEMENT 43PROGRAM 44 INTERVENTION 45 INTERVENING OPPENHEIMER PARK 84CHAOS FRAMEWORK 92 STRANGE ATTRACTORS 93 DTES ATTRACTOR 95CONCLUSION 98FIGURES 99REFERENCES 102This 2023 - 2024 graduate project is submitted in part ia l ful f i l lment for the Master of Landscape Archi tecture (MLA) from the School of Archi tecture and Landscape Archi tecture (SALA) at the Univers i ty of Br i t ish Columbia (UBC) , located on the unceded terr i tory of the Coast Sal ish Peoples , including the terr i tor ies of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) , Stó: lō and Səl ̓ í lwətaʔ/Sel i lwitu lh (Tsle i l - Waututh) Nat ions.A warm grat i tude for my graduate advisor Sara Jacobs for her cont inued support and enthusiasm for my thesis topic and interests .A special thanks to my classmates and future col leagues for their ongoing encouragement in my work.A recognit ion to the SALA instructors and faculty for their r igorous educat ion and commitment to the growth of the landscape archi tecture profession.An appreciat ion to Sister Chi ta of the Door is Open for her warmth and welcome to al l .A profound admirat ion for the complexi ty of our world .TABLE OF CONTENTS4 5The graduate project explores chaos theory as a design framework for landscape architecture and other fields of design. It is argued that due to the Anthropocene, the economic, social, and ecological sy…
has type: Graduating Project
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442121
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. LARC 598
subject: Chaos Theory
subject: Landscape Architecture
subject: Complex Adaptive Systems
subject: Capitalism
subject: Ecology
subject: Oppenheimer Park
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88178