Today was my last final review, this time for Orkan Telhan's Visual Epistemologies class. I'm done! And still exhausted. Here are the remaining slides from my studio presentation from yesterday. I will update this with context and clarifications in the coming days.
Just had my final final studio review of graduate school. More deadlines on the way, so another quick post of a few slides from today. More to follow.
The following essay is an abstract for my final studio. The research studio was led by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake, Jacob Mans and assisted by Billie Faircloth, all of the architecture firm KieranTimberlake. The final review will be tomorrow, May 8th in their offices. Computers and cell phones provide massive improvements in connectivity and productivity, but also... Continue Reading →
A few screen shots of a mobile lab for electronic waste processing in Downtown Dhaka. Given how scarce land is, this lab would set up shop under a 'flyover' (overpass), while a permanent shop is built along side it. Eventually, the lab would leave its environmental protection systems behind and take processed material to a... Continue Reading →
A brief look at how electronics flow through Dhaka, looking at their economic and environmental impacts.
[author's note: as the semester progresses these posts will increasingly alternate between studio project specific topics and non sequiturs. Today's topic is studio project specific.] A few weeks back I briefly described e-waste (used electronics) and its international trade. A general pattern of shipments from developed western countries to the 'global south' was evident. More... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow is mid review, involving 10 minutes of slide show about the macro economy of Bangladesh and the informal electronic recycling in Dhaka. None of the slides are in final form yet, so I'll post the graphics from sources which I will be incorporating into my presentation, then I'll post my slides tomorrow night.
E-waste has a lot of possible definitions, but it refers to used electronics shipped between countries. From the StEP-Initiative, it refers to "the reverse supply chain which collects products no loner desired by a given consumer and refurbishes for other consumers, recycles, or otherwise processes waste." The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development defines e-waste as... Continue Reading →
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