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Mirza, Idil Zeyneb

This project aims to not give a solution but spark thoughts on how to approach a contested landscape. It aims to imagine an alternate way of living in the current context that goes into the future where the agency of the land slowly passes to the Kashmiris again by using landscape literacy as a tool and border abolition as a process through using the land practices that the people of the land already uses to weave the people and the land back together. It puts forward a narrative of absurdity and beauty to create spaces for these practices starting at the border itself where the border loses its existing definition and dissolves. A land where they know how to live around mountains, valleys, plateaus where they can become a sustaining community as how they would live traditionally, instead of living like ghosts in fear. It explores a narrative of the absurdity and the beauty of this tension-scape. It creates spaces for Kashmiris to bring back their culture into the land where they know how to tend using the spaces, colonialism itself has provided. The border... LOC... The Line of Control… A “border” where it loses its existing definition.

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University of British Columbia. LARC 598

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448818

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

Unreviewed

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