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On view at the Liberty Research Annex
October 17, 2024 - January 1, 2025


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  1. 22/26 Midwest
  2. Ambiguous Territory
  3. Annotation and Insulation
  4. Asutsuare Rebound
  5. Atlas of the Trans-Apocalypse
  6. Becoming Biomass
  7. Bespoke Ultra-Thin Layered 3D-printed Reusable Wood-Bio-Based Formwork for Casting Complex Concrete Geometries
  8. Branch Wall: Geometrically Informed Non-Planar Toolpath and Material Deposition
  9. Deploy 2.0
  10. Detroit Cultural Center
  11. Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
  12. Fabric-Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth
  13. Frie(s/d)
  14. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing
  15. Guidance for Designing and Implementing Constitutionally Valid Local Plans and Regulations to Protect Landmarked Trees, Woodlands, and Tree Canopy in Michigan
  16. Heat and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements
  17. Hygroscopic Envelope: Building Enclosures for Climate Adaptation
  18. In My Backyard
  19. In-Svalbard: Cold Coast Atlas
  20. Land, Foodways, and Kinship: The Case of Palestinian Villages
  21. Light Forms
  22. MiCE Architecture: Design Strategies to Mitigate Michigan Coastal Erosion
  23. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  24. Myco-Composite Furniture
  25. Post Rock Post-Industrial Plastic Facade
  26. re:FE Reimagining Mining Waste from a Wounded Region
  27. Shell Wall: Coupling Non-Planar Robotic 3D Concrete Printing and Topology Optimization
  28. Solar Technology Integration on Building Facades
  29. The Canopy
  30. The Lifespan Project
  31. Unfolding Forms of Conveyance
  32. Urban Climate Law Series
  33. Vertical Wetlands





In-Svalbard: Cold Coast Atlas
Colin Garnett                  2024

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This digital platform hosts media documenting work completed for the Booth Traveling Fellowship.  The work includes travel logs, mini mapping exercises, photography, and video documenting travel to the northern coast of Norway and the island of Svalbard, the latter serving as a theater for many contemporary issues to play out on an accelerated timeline. Svalbard is a place impacted by climate change at a rate six times faster than the global average; the island lies at the 79th parallel North, well above the arctic circle.  It hosts many architectures dedicated to monitoring climate change, hedging against a global future ravished by climate shifts, and deploying new technologies to radically reimagine how we exist in hostile environments. Yet Svalbard is home to a number of contradictions as well: a deeply rooted history of resource extraction (coal mining), a rapidly increasing and problematic tourism industry, and the presence of convenience in consumerism despite its remote location.  This work is investigative, and foregrounds architecture as a tool by which one might image spatial-values and societal priorities; it is also speculative in its supposition that the rest of the world might learn from the people, places, and practices of this region. Travel was conducted during June 2024, with preparation and research conducted prior, travel logs completed during, and drawings/photo curation finished after. These efforts, especially those related to climate + housing policy on the island, are ongoing.