paradigm map version_final

final version of the group assignment paradigm mapping entitled Variant Ecologies

The mapping diagram establishes quadrants that situate subtopics of variant ecologies based on urban/rural (vertical) and natural/artificial (horizontal) axis. The colors (orange, blue, and green) represent three individual thesis ideas and maps connections between each other that identify where they locate in the grid. The gray represents topics that relate to all three thesis and act as a moment of connectivity. 

paradigm map version_draft

The map combines three similar thesis ideas from three different students through a mapping exercise to help provoke and situate the individual thesis'. The mapping, entitled Surface Processes, identifies research for various topics including: engineered and constructed grounds, landscape urbanism / ecological urbanism, agriculture / aquaculture, terrestrial and aquatic systems, agency of landscape / water. My thesis, categorized in this mapping as Landscrapers, Active Ecology, and Energy as Potency, examines each topic separately through case studies and various research. Connections and relationships were determined within my thesis, then also linked to the other two thesis's to examine further connections in an attempt to re-situate my own thesis in the mapping exercise.