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The Bangarang Contagion: Towards an Architecture Against Human Devolution

Scavnicky, Ryan T
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399629880

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2014, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
We are living in the largest agglomeration of desensitized architectural detritus ever to be assembled, and thus belong to, without a doubt, the most placeless and transient generation in modern human history. This phenomena has brought with it - among laudable benefits - an explosion of digital media. It has also manifested in a new temporal memory which has caused an erosion of the physical environment within the human consciousness and condition. Thus reinforcing the possibility of a slow societal and cultural decay - the devolution of mankind. With digital existence increasingly encompassing the real world, it is necessary that these two realities must not oppose, but coexist. And if they are to coexist, it so happens, they must do so with critical acceptance of their conflicting nature. In these continually developing systems, the programming of subsumption architecture becomes a vital strategy to combat the anesthetized physical experience. This architecture relies upon identified operations of divergence in order to bring itself into the foreground of consciousness. Its ability to evince local formal systems or symbolic expressions allows the project to exist as a recurring physical memory within a landscape. This synchronicity must be a moment of Bangarang. This term - which refers to a hubbub, uproar, or disturbance as well as a punch line, retort, or comeback - becomes the framework for a vast architectural contagion, which exists in order to counteract the dangerously cyclical and overbearing barrage of new media which is permeating and eroding meaningful physical conditions.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
85 p.
Architecture
Bangarang; Architecture; Devolution; Digital; Memory; Contagion

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  • Scavnicky, R. T. (2014). The Bangarang Contagion: Towards an Architecture Against Human Devolution [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399629880

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Scavnicky, Ryan. The Bangarang Contagion: Towards an Architecture Against Human Devolution. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399629880.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Scavnicky, Ryan. "The Bangarang Contagion: Towards an Architecture Against Human Devolution." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399629880

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