Master Thesis, Master in Design Studies, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2016
Inhabiting Java's Volcanic proposes an alternative entry point to Jakarta's narrative as the quin... more Inhabiting Java's Volcanic proposes an alternative entry point to Jakarta's narrative as the quintessential megacity-at-risk. Looking past the rhetoric of coastal vulnerability and focusing instead on the forms of living that have unfolded in Java's highlands, the project re-reads the densely populated island situated atop the Sunda Trench as a vast geomorphic machine and model. Investigating and imaging these active grounds in relation to patterns of human activity, the project sheds light on the role of volcanoes as urban centers, as spinal cords of socio-spatial organization.
Learning from the consequences of the Dayton Peace Accords, reimagining the foundations of post-c... more Learning from the consequences of the Dayton Peace Accords, reimagining the foundations of post-conflict urbanism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Final paper in the seminar 'Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective', ins... more Final paper in the seminar 'Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective', instructors: Rahul Mehrotra & Martha Chen, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2015
An essay that oscillates between geo-anthropological speculations, invoked in the format of an os... more An essay that oscillates between geo-anthropological speculations, invoked in the format of an ostensibly styled grant proposal (and laid out as such), and fabulation —only vaguely related to the theme of the proposal. The essay constructs the hypothesis of an ‘extended shelf,’ comprised by the suboceanic extraction landcape of the so-called Norwegian Shelf, the financial infrastructure of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, and Norway’s contributions to the global “risk watershed” of fossil-fuelled global warming.
"An ambitious attempt to set up a student-run framework for collective research and co-production... more "An ambitious attempt to set up a student-run framework for collective research and co-production, oriented towards a lived reality outside of the academy and taking a different format than a ‘studio’. It is also an original initiative, which announces the emergence of a socio-ecological design agenda and a radical pedagogy turn at the GSD. The following text explains the intentions behind the proposal, and frames them within the larger agenda of design education today."
From the introduction by Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou
Elements for a World: STONE. Petrocultures, Petrohistories, 2016
"Design in an expanded sense plays a significant role in effectuating the transformations necessa... more "Design in an expanded sense plays a significant role in effectuating the transformations necessary to inhabit an increasingly complex world for the future, one of the arguments Namik Mackic raises in his essay Becoming-Amber. A combination of personal reflection and theoretical rigor, the piece reflects primarily on the “city” as a testing ground for the co-evolution of humans with and through technological systems. Drawing on the philosopher Gilbert Simondon’s conceptual toolbox, largely unknown outside of a Francophone context, Mackic attempts to re-conceive extraction as not only those operations that intervene into the Earth, but as the full-scale territorialization of space by technology. This involves an ontological shift that considers the complete range of world-making protocols, from the technical to the biological and geological, from Google algorithms to the mineralization of organic matter and the eruption of volcanoes, all as part of the Earth’s vital, slow-working “technicity.” Returning full circle back to the city, the “urban” expands beyond convention as a means to think through the evolution and expansion of a planetary exoskeleton whose immanent quality is to extract the machinic potential of the planet. The flows of the Earth accelerate towards a World-City, an environment suspended between the geo-physical ‘firmness’ of stone and the psycho-virtual shimmer of ethereal media. Humans, perhaps, are suspended somewhere in between, as if the species were to become a living artifact."
From the introduction to Elements for a World: STONE by editor Ashkan Sepahvand
Master Thesis, Master in Design Studies, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2016
Inhabiting Java's Volcanic proposes an alternative entry point to Jakarta's narrative as the quin... more Inhabiting Java's Volcanic proposes an alternative entry point to Jakarta's narrative as the quintessential megacity-at-risk. Looking past the rhetoric of coastal vulnerability and focusing instead on the forms of living that have unfolded in Java's highlands, the project re-reads the densely populated island situated atop the Sunda Trench as a vast geomorphic machine and model. Investigating and imaging these active grounds in relation to patterns of human activity, the project sheds light on the role of volcanoes as urban centers, as spinal cords of socio-spatial organization.
Learning from the consequences of the Dayton Peace Accords, reimagining the foundations of post-c... more Learning from the consequences of the Dayton Peace Accords, reimagining the foundations of post-conflict urbanism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Final paper in the seminar 'Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective', ins... more Final paper in the seminar 'Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective', instructors: Rahul Mehrotra & Martha Chen, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2015
An essay that oscillates between geo-anthropological speculations, invoked in the format of an os... more An essay that oscillates between geo-anthropological speculations, invoked in the format of an ostensibly styled grant proposal (and laid out as such), and fabulation —only vaguely related to the theme of the proposal. The essay constructs the hypothesis of an ‘extended shelf,’ comprised by the suboceanic extraction landcape of the so-called Norwegian Shelf, the financial infrastructure of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, and Norway’s contributions to the global “risk watershed” of fossil-fuelled global warming.
"An ambitious attempt to set up a student-run framework for collective research and co-production... more "An ambitious attempt to set up a student-run framework for collective research and co-production, oriented towards a lived reality outside of the academy and taking a different format than a ‘studio’. It is also an original initiative, which announces the emergence of a socio-ecological design agenda and a radical pedagogy turn at the GSD. The following text explains the intentions behind the proposal, and frames them within the larger agenda of design education today."
From the introduction by Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou
Elements for a World: STONE. Petrocultures, Petrohistories, 2016
"Design in an expanded sense plays a significant role in effectuating the transformations necessa... more "Design in an expanded sense plays a significant role in effectuating the transformations necessary to inhabit an increasingly complex world for the future, one of the arguments Namik Mackic raises in his essay Becoming-Amber. A combination of personal reflection and theoretical rigor, the piece reflects primarily on the “city” as a testing ground for the co-evolution of humans with and through technological systems. Drawing on the philosopher Gilbert Simondon’s conceptual toolbox, largely unknown outside of a Francophone context, Mackic attempts to re-conceive extraction as not only those operations that intervene into the Earth, but as the full-scale territorialization of space by technology. This involves an ontological shift that considers the complete range of world-making protocols, from the technical to the biological and geological, from Google algorithms to the mineralization of organic matter and the eruption of volcanoes, all as part of the Earth’s vital, slow-working “technicity.” Returning full circle back to the city, the “urban” expands beyond convention as a means to think through the evolution and expansion of a planetary exoskeleton whose immanent quality is to extract the machinic potential of the planet. The flows of the Earth accelerate towards a World-City, an environment suspended between the geo-physical ‘firmness’ of stone and the psycho-virtual shimmer of ethereal media. Humans, perhaps, are suspended somewhere in between, as if the species were to become a living artifact."
From the introduction to Elements for a World: STONE by editor Ashkan Sepahvand
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From the introduction to Elements for a World: STONE by editor Ashkan Sepahvand
From the introduction by Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou
From the introduction to Elements for a World: STONE by editor Ashkan Sepahvand