I am in the penultimate week of the Pre-Thesis class. The following week will be a culmination of research and work done this semester in a presentation to my cohort and attending faculty. It also serves as a midway point of a year long research project that will serve as…

One of the challenges that I had when thinking about how best to represent a future NYC with regards to a decolonized lens. I suppose the challenge derives from branching out from our existing purviews of change stemming from the established frameworks and institutions that have presented change that conform…

In preparing my work for the rest of the semester (and to lead into the months up until my completion of the program), my hopes are to continue the trajectory of producing and iterating on the ideas for this thesis. …

Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, proposes the radical idea of how the current and future direction of technology can weave itself into both the physical and metaphysical realms on this planet; this is The Stack. The scale of The Stack exists on a planetary one, where planetary…

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is…

Earlier this week the second round of presentations focused on the secondary research and proposed project ideas. …

This week, in preparation for the second round of presentations, I delved deeper into the well of authors, researchers, world builders, that navigate their respective mediums of envisioning future realities. During this process, I watched a PBS documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Ursula K. …

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States…

After consideration of where I will direct this thesis project, I have decided to steer the focus towards exploring the methods and examples of co-worlding/co-imagining projects. Through this process it will embark on continuing the research that I have already built, and add to it the examples of work done…