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Machine Ecologies Klym, Sarah

Abstract

This thesis explores the relationship between productive landscapes and the machines that shape them. Built to draw resources from gridded "peripheries", machines of industry have reshaped the rural north. In tailoring the landscape to the machine, these territories have come to be misunderstood as physically and temporally disjointed sites of extraction. In reality, these places are critical future thresholds for ecosystems in flux, now more than ever in need of succession and connectivity.  This project proposes an ecology of machines that celebrates complexity in the way we divide and cultivate agricultural landscapes in northern British Columbia.

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Title
Machine Ecologies
Creator
Klym, Sarah
Date Issued
2020-05
Description
This thesis explores the relationship between productive landscapes and the machines that shape them. Built to draw resources from gridded "peripheries", machines of industry have reshaped the rural north. In tailoring the landscape to the machine, these territories have come to be misunderstood as physically and temporally disjointed sites of extraction. In reality, these places are critical future thresholds for ecosystems in flux, now more than ever in need of succession and connectivity.  This project proposes an ecology of machines that celebrates complexity in the way we divide and cultivate agricultural landscapes in northern British Columbia.
Subject
Machine Landscapes; Ecology; Agriculture
Geographic Location
British Columbia, Northern
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2020-05-15
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0390887
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74485
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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