In attempting to define my methodology last week, I realized that I have no idea what my end product will become. And in looking ahead for that past assignment, I completely lost site of what I should be doing now. I know that I don’t want this project to be related to urban planning or the ‘prettying up’ of these abandoned spaces, something which the case studies I have chosen seem to be focusing on.
I do know that abandoned sites and derelict landscapes fascinate me and some reasons why. (1) It is the aesthetics that dramatically contradict the pretty renderings of my case studies. (2) It is the void, empty spaces with no program or people. (3) It is the allowance of unregulated movement. (4) It is the structure that limits its transgressions.
So why not begin here with my methodology and see where this takes me, instead of trying to define where I’m going to end.
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My methodology is going to be an ongoing course of action; one in which I will never look towards an end product. But instead look towards the process and allow it to inform me of my progressions and where I should be going and allow it to take me to where I will end.
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