Date of Award
Spring 5-31-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)
Department
Landscape Architecture
First Advisor
Johanna Barthmaier-Payne, Tom Weis
Second Advisor
Gavin Zeitz
Third Advisor
Rachel Berwick
Abstract
Diatoms drift, sediments sink, wildfires generate their own weather. Lightning strikes can blast sand into glass, and microscopic organisms do the same in the cold recesses of the ocean. What alchemies and metabolisms catalyze space, time, and energy? What are the thermodynamics of infrastructure in Climate Change?
Places, materials, and beings are afterimages. Through alchemical experiments, and multi-scalar imaging, I develop simulations of wildfires, and their profound, reverberating effects. In this thesis, a glass-meets-landscape experimental process enters these obscured conditions and renders new material relations for the built environment.
Recommended Citation
More, Tanmayee, "Fire Fossils: Biomineral Infrastructures in Untangling Climates" (2025). Masters Theses. 1361.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1361
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