Above Ground Level : [18 km, 79 km, 408 km, 35 786 km]

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Above Ground Level : [18 km, 79 km, 408 km, 35 786 km] Salama, Dana

Abstract

Air Space has become an increasingly commodified and militarized landscape that is heavily occupied by machines. The acceleration of technology by state and corporate powers has resulted in an unequal relationship between private and public property distribution and operation in supersurface space. This investigation uses Paul Virilio’s analysis of dromological space as a conceptual framework to understand spatial politics in air space, and how private citizens might reclaim this territory in order to build agency within it. Paul Virilio refers to dromological space as space governed by the acceleration of technology—specifically tied to machinic advancements sustained by the military industrial complex. These values are reflected in recent developments in air space—specifically hybrid technologies such as Google’s Project Loon which are designed to evade legal and technological classifications in order to ambiguously occupy air space. This research provides four provocations; tales told through architectural objects at 18 km, 79 km, 408 km, and 35 786 km which aim to question systems of power Above Ground Level.

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Title	Above Ground Level : [18 km, 79 km, 408 km, 35 786 km]
Creator	Salama, Dana
Date Issued	2019-04
Description	Air Space has become an increasingly commodified and militarized landscape that is heavily occupied by machines. The acceleration of technology by state and corporate powers has resulted in an unequal relationship between private and public property distribution and operation in supersurface space. This investigation uses Paul Virilio’s analysis of dromological space as a conceptual framework to understand spatial politics in air space, and how private citizens might reclaim this territory in order to build agency within it. Paul Virilio refers to dromological space as space governed by the acceleration of technology—specifically tied to machinic advancements sustained by the military industrial complex. These values are reflected in recent developments in air space—specifically hybrid technologies such as Google’s Project Loon which are designed to evade legal and technological classifications in order to ambiguously occupy air space. This research provides four provocations; tales told through architectural objects at 18 km, 79 km, 408 km, and 35 786 km which aim to question systems of power Above Ground Level.
Subject	Virilio, Paul; Air space; Inequality; Earth; Technosupremacy; Architecture; Design; Google; Alphabet
Genre	Graduating Project
Type	Text; Moving Image
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available	2019-05-07
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0378624
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/70098
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus	UBCV
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Copyright Holder	Dana Salama
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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Salama_Dana_ARCH_549_Above_ground_level_2019.pdf -- 78.69MB

Salama_timline animated.mp4 -- 25.35MB

Salama_earthscales.mp4 -- 1.24MB

Salama_18km_plan.mp4 -- 8.02MB

Salama_18km_timeline.mp4 -- 18.04MB

Salama_79km_plan.mp4 -- 5.33MB

Salama_79km_timeline.mp4 -- 17.89MB

Salama_408km_plan.mp4 -- 8.72MB

Salama 408km_timeline.mp4 -- 17.09MB

Salama_408km_treatyobjects.mp4 -- 2.56MB

Salama_35786km_plan.mp4 -- 8.81MB

Salama_35786km_timeline.mp4 -- 18.06MB

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