https://arivamos.cargo.site ari vamos Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:34:25 +0000 https://arivamos.cargo.site en https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-testosterone-landscapes Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:34:09 +0000 ari vamos https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-testosterone-landscapes <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ceedc4a5ecc92e56bd799d46adde7c1edcbd278ef6c16e898cfb5a592f1b878/01_SanQuentin.jpg" data-mid="157616331" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ceedc4a5ecc92e56bd799d46adde7c1edcbd278ef6c16e898cfb5a592f1b878/01_SanQuentin.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb47bfdcbbef2a2fd69ac7f2f8ca8f337b780ed98637e494d1b7c7f9e4ef234f/02_Berlin.jpg" data-mid="157616332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb47bfdcbbef2a2fd69ac7f2f8ca8f337b780ed98637e494d1b7c7f9e4ef234f/02_Berlin.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dff5f69967f3dcf5a6966e55d8b3efcae51babe899ce47176eea3279575508d6/03_Tuxtepec.jpg" data-mid="157616338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dff5f69967f3dcf5a6966e55d8b3efcae51babe899ce47176eea3279575508d6/03_Tuxtepec.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce5de073eed0b8d35b0a4ab7212828d97248d46f95c2474fbe26799a25f23b8f/04_Lubbock.jpg" data-mid="157616403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce5de073eed0b8d35b0a4ab7212828d97248d46f95c2474fbe26799a25f23b8f/04_Lubbock.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70c58f7722d676447a8550c6227c34551aa87296e4fd9c71af2a05ca6a991af8/05_Tijuana.jpg" data-mid="157616452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70c58f7722d676447a8550c6227c34551aa87296e4fd9c71af2a05ca6a991af8/05_Tijuana.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abbd053b5387962087bd60069b315ea83bd7288bc7a7b7b6308f3398c82c6ba8/06_Washington.jpg" data-mid="157616480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abbd053b5387962087bd60069b315ea83bd7288bc7a7b7b6308f3398c82c6ba8/06_Washington.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/620759dd680618018da2c5405c52a1ac66f94ea8082018f076cf05cd51f57bb4/07_Kalamazoo.jpg" data-mid="157616691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/620759dd680618018da2c5405c52a1ac66f94ea8082018f076cf05cd51f57bb4/07_Kalamazoo.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88bfffeb1011ef30bdcdd7b40e9f95e4eaba15a673ac0463b0109e5e1bfa3d74/08_Montgomery.jpg" data-mid="157616696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88bfffeb1011ef30bdcdd7b40e9f95e4eaba15a673ac0463b0109e5e1bfa3d74/08_Montgomery.jpg" /> testosterone landscapes synthetic testosterone, biopower, and industrial gender spring 2022 This project was featured in the November 2022 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Testosterone is a controversial hormone. Since its chemical synthesis in 1936, it has been associated with male virility and athletic performance, but also with aggression and criminality. The production, marketing, and regulation of exogenous testosterone (hormones produced outside the body and administered via medication) are all tightly bound up with racialized and gendered notions of what constitutes a “normal” body and what role the state plays in controlling it. In spite of its sterile pharmaceutical packaging and the very term “synthetic,” exogenous testosterone is not a purely lab-generated product; it is intimately tied to places, people, and landscapes through its material and discursive flows. From the cotton fields in West Texas that produce the cottonseed oil the hormone is suspended in to the discount pharmacies and maquiladoras in Tijuana that sparked a panic over the transnational hormone trade, the production of testosterone encompasses industrial agriculture, border policing, and the carceral system. This project traces the history and present of synthetic testosterone through eight key sites implicated in its research, production, regulation, and marketing. To reconcile the enormous scale of the industrial systems that produce this hormone with the intimate bodily scale of its use, a series of drawings demonstrating the steps of injecting testosterone are collaged with images from these sites. From the early days of endocrinological research (closely tied to medical eugenics) to testosterone’s designation as a Schedule III controlled substance in 1990 to present-day bans on transgender youth’s access to gender-affirming care, the history of testosterone and hormones more broadly is a story of attempted medicolegal control over what is unruly: the function of hormones in the body, the extraction of biological compounds from cultivated plant matter, the movement of people and products across borders, and ultimately the desires of cisgender and transgender people alike for gender affirmation and bodily autonomy. <img width="4992" height="3746" width_o="4992" height_o="3746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df74ae2c8725ded8b7ff02d293efafae8adb9c1987ca239b998698c6ea0058fc/09_Map_Full.jpg" data-mid="157618041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df74ae2c8725ded8b7ff02d293efafae8adb9c1987ca239b998698c6ea0058fc/09_Map_Full.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ceedc4a5ecc92e56bd799d46adde7c1edcbd278ef6c16e898cfb5a592f1b878/01_SanQuentin.jpg" data-mid="157616331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ceedc4a5ecc92e56bd799d46adde7c1edcbd278ef6c16e898cfb5a592f1b878/01_SanQuentin.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb47bfdcbbef2a2fd69ac7f2f8ca8f337b780ed98637e494d1b7c7f9e4ef234f/02_Berlin.jpg" data-mid="157616332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb47bfdcbbef2a2fd69ac7f2f8ca8f337b780ed98637e494d1b7c7f9e4ef234f/02_Berlin.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dff5f69967f3dcf5a6966e55d8b3efcae51babe899ce47176eea3279575508d6/03_Tuxtepec.jpg" data-mid="157616338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dff5f69967f3dcf5a6966e55d8b3efcae51babe899ce47176eea3279575508d6/03_Tuxtepec.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce5de073eed0b8d35b0a4ab7212828d97248d46f95c2474fbe26799a25f23b8f/04_Lubbock.jpg" data-mid="157616403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce5de073eed0b8d35b0a4ab7212828d97248d46f95c2474fbe26799a25f23b8f/04_Lubbock.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70c58f7722d676447a8550c6227c34551aa87296e4fd9c71af2a05ca6a991af8/05_Tijuana.jpg" data-mid="157616452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70c58f7722d676447a8550c6227c34551aa87296e4fd9c71af2a05ca6a991af8/05_Tijuana.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abbd053b5387962087bd60069b315ea83bd7288bc7a7b7b6308f3398c82c6ba8/06_Washington.jpg" data-mid="157616480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abbd053b5387962087bd60069b315ea83bd7288bc7a7b7b6308f3398c82c6ba8/06_Washington.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/620759dd680618018da2c5405c52a1ac66f94ea8082018f076cf05cd51f57bb4/07_Kalamazoo.jpg" data-mid="157616691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/620759dd680618018da2c5405c52a1ac66f94ea8082018f076cf05cd51f57bb4/07_Kalamazoo.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="4276" width_o="4200" height_o="4276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88bfffeb1011ef30bdcdd7b40e9f95e4eaba15a673ac0463b0109e5e1bfa3d74/08_Montgomery.jpg" data-mid="157616696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88bfffeb1011ef30bdcdd7b40e9f95e4eaba15a673ac0463b0109e5e1bfa3d74/08_Montgomery.jpg" /> produced for PennDesign course&nbsp;Yonder Lands:&nbsp;Political Ecologies and Economies of the Military, Fossil Fuel, Agriculture, and Prison Industrial Complexes in Rural Landscapesinstructor: Billy Fleming https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-planetary-neighborscape Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:34:25 +0000 ari vamos https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-planetary-neighborscape <img width="3900" height="3040" width_o="3900" height_o="3040" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/428acd3fdeaf90fde90d4331ab189b06b48c6384ace38b94a7718f9619c8b1e2/701-render-reduced.png" data-mid="171803465" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/428acd3fdeaf90fde90d4331ab189b06b48c6384ace38b94a7718f9619c8b1e2/701-render-reduced.png" /> planetary neighborscape a reparations framework for climate migration with dignityfall 2022 in collaboration with Jun Lee and Aaron O’Neill This interdisciplinary landscape + architecture project explores a scenario in which the Netherlands and Germany facilitate climate migration from their former colonies as a form of colonial and climate reparations. This scenario reimagines the rural Dutch tradition of naoberschap, or neighborly responsibility and mutual aid, as an expanded transnational solidarity in the face of the climate crisis. By landing this scenario in Dinxperlo, a small farming community on the eastern Dutch-German border, we explore what physical and social infrastructures might be necessary to both successfully resettle climate refugees and address challenges faced by the receiving community, including drought and a shrinking agricultural economy. The design proposal is based around three key elements: modular climate refugee housing, bio-based material production to support this new construction, and sustainable land management to increase groundwater storage and prevent drought. We worked to design both material and social processes, which include consensus-building for Dinxperlo residents, phased migration for the sending communities, and knowledge-sharing that puts the climate refugees’ expertise at the center of construction and landscape practices. The physical infrastructure takes the form of a distributed vocational campus that facilitates knowledge exchange between residents and new arrivals around bio-based material production, modular construction, and sustainable forestry and agriculture. My role was designing the sustainable construction campus, which brings together educational and social spaces for students, floodable agriculture, and pilot sites for the modular housing produced on the campus. Working collaboratively with Jun Lee, a MArch student, we designed a set of interior and exterior spaces that layer productive, educational, cultural, and social functions to imagine how people from disparate communities might live and work together. The landscape and architectural design work together to create flexible scaffolding for new arrivals to shape the built environment and make this new community their home. <img width="4800" height="2700" width_o="4800" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b725659e2048ae07b9d13cb1995b161d152893a23520913c7f262609382b8d9/collages-01.png" data-mid="171803594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b725659e2048ae07b9d13cb1995b161d152893a23520913c7f262609382b8d9/collages-01.png" /> <img width="4800" height="2700" width_o="4800" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/206bd41c5c662d08a744aea63a6c6f6681c7ed0b11cdbd92876093ce54da8863/collages-02.png" data-mid="171803595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/206bd41c5c662d08a744aea63a6c6f6681c7ed0b11cdbd92876093ce54da8863/collages-02.png" /> <img width="4800" height="2700" width_o="4800" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c746db44f77a24324f672f8060830e09c948997921f3f25df985b8d03640f656/collages-03.png" data-mid="171803596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c746db44f77a24324f672f8060830e09c948997921f3f25df985b8d03640f656/collages-03.png" /> <img width="3600" height="5759" width_o="3600" height_o="5759" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ae0afe83ce6909012bd81ef8c9f7da6c3dcde1e0f8883d5885b5e627bd2a59d/701-systems-reduced.png" data-mid="171805537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ae0afe83ce6909012bd81ef8c9f7da6c3dcde1e0f8883d5885b5e627bd2a59d/701-systems-reduced.png" /> <img width="3000" height="1688" width_o="3000" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a5e59a1b4152ab4a0c69f5291100f023a1e472afc49ea90fa8569b3c185b9f2/3-sites-interventions_reduced.png" data-mid="171803550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a5e59a1b4152ab4a0c69f5291100f023a1e472afc49ea90fa8569b3c185b9f2/3-sites-interventions_reduced.png" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b90f564efe492fcf70f29e3908693cead4deb5bb7ef5ed675461c8006ab4f18/701-plan-site-west-reduced.png" data-mid="171804828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b90f564efe492fcf70f29e3908693cead4deb5bb7ef5ed675461c8006ab4f18/701-plan-site-west-reduced.png" /> <img width="3000" height="1688" width_o="3000" height_o="1688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9669a79655f08f77e2158137e457454f357894d56f6bfcd1a5a28aaf21c688b0/701-production-scene-reduced.png" data-mid="171804829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9669a79655f08f77e2158137e457454f357894d56f6bfcd1a5a28aaf21c688b0/701-production-scene-reduced.png" /> <img width="3000" height="1687" width_o="3000" height_o="1687" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/567fb475d07e3f0c79ee890136fd334bfe43a10b05b3857bf960e7317544fbe6/701-neighborhood-reduced.png" data-mid="171804049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/567fb475d07e3f0c79ee890136fd334bfe43a10b05b3857bf960e7317544fbe6/701-neighborhood-reduced.png" /> <img width="9885" height="2700" width_o="9885" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b27ee105eae20c1524cea74f16f33e8a9a58fd8e958ec7c845db1fa4a11a3f06/SiteW-full.png" data-mid="171804854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b27ee105eae20c1524cea74f16f33e8a9a58fd8e958ec7c845db1fa4a11a3f06/SiteW-full.png" /> <img width="3300" height="1856" width_o="3300" height_o="1856" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49c8d79fd8796422d9ac5227cf5692937ff99ac10c7afd2138ab74ace6d355ad/cutaway-axon-reduced.png" data-mid="171803547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49c8d79fd8796422d9ac5227cf5692937ff99ac10c7afd2138ab74ace6d355ad/cutaway-axon-reduced.png" /> produced for PennDesign&nbsp;Urban Resilience Studio: Moving with the Flow critic: Matthijs Bouw https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-the-waters-rise Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:53:59 +0000 ari vamos https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-the-waters-rise <img width="2625" height="3150" width_o="2625" height_o="3150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49f8b537ad75f2b36c00c7a1588a12325739e9f4a643402f12e6959cf214b926/Sheet-1.jpg" data-mid="157622344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49f8b537ad75f2b36c00c7a1588a12325739e9f4a643402f12e6959cf214b926/Sheet-1.jpg" /> the waters rise a vision for the autonomous floodplain assemblyspring 2022 in collaboration with Nicole Cheng and Eduardo Martinez This speculative design project imagines a contested climate future for Southwest Philadelphia.&nbsp; Rising seas and sinking homes are familiar images of the worsening climate crisis, but visions for the future of our floodplains remain largely based on technocratic and modernist planning principles. Rather than assuming that these top-down plans will continue to make the city, we begin with the belief that social and political interruption will shape the future of the floodplain. This project imagines a process of disruption from the present day to 2050 in the Eastwick neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia. In the face of well-intentioned but failed climate adaptation plans by the local government, a growing climate refugee population and existing Eastwick residents form the Autonomous Floodplain Assembly (AFA) to take over the 100-year floodplain. Through a series of strategic demolitions, occupations, and blockades, members of the AFA interrupt and transform the conditions produced by failing infrastructure and organized abandonment by the state. Starting with these sites of interruption throughout Eastwick, this project moves from social contestation to built interventions that reimagine industry, housing and transportation in the neighborhood. Vacant industrial land is occupied and appropriated by the AFA into a mixed-use campus that supports the creation of an independent, community-controlled local grid powered by solar production. Two typologies of housing emerge where ‘temporary’ FEMA trailers are retrofitted to become high quality flood resilient housing and the local strip mall is transformed into a mixed use residential and commercial area. Finally, expanded local mobility infrastructure extends the trolley route throughout the neighborhood and turns a regional rail blockade into a local connection. Spaces for collective life are central to this speculative future, where AFA members are able to strengthen their social fabric and realize their power as everyday people to make the city. <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1857f2aa10996ef73270cdd047acecca815a934c33a80fdcabc8a33ed0122470/Housing_Plaza_430-01.jpg" data-mid="157622722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1857f2aa10996ef73270cdd047acecca815a934c33a80fdcabc8a33ed0122470/Housing_Plaza_430-01.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/667df68a44ab39bfc6ea9309c40b6da040c2ce242592750390ef7531161d574e/Housing_Site_View_1_flood-01.jpg" data-mid="157622723" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/667df68a44ab39bfc6ea9309c40b6da040c2ce242592750390ef7531161d574e/Housing_Site_View_1_flood-01.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4b8b702addf72b2209fdab5bafd84739ca532e7b88496cf9fd3213987e3e799/Industrial_Solar_430-01-01.jpg" data-mid="157622726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4b8b702addf72b2209fdab5bafd84739ca532e7b88496cf9fd3213987e3e799/Industrial_Solar_430-01-01.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b6d5c004fab179a1c98c883fc8d042c1343b2ae3cfba0068c5378021121a87d/Industrial_Plaza_430-01.jpg" data-mid="157622725" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b6d5c004fab179a1c98c883fc8d042c1343b2ae3cfba0068c5378021121a87d/Industrial_Plaza_430-01.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2a8fd7f311c6e4875a24f625a3f80687e55485e6eb086958df053a47ef65290/Housing_Interior_View-01.jpg" data-mid="157622721" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2a8fd7f311c6e4875a24f625a3f80687e55485e6eb086958df053a47ef65290/Housing_Interior_View-01.jpg" /> <img width="5137" height="6901" width_o="5137" height_o="6901" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3668714da88ec6d52da47a6931ec8f92727a2ddf876d3776b477521e7b19b7d8/exploded-axon-01.png" data-mid="157625885" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3668714da88ec6d52da47a6931ec8f92727a2ddf876d3776b477521e7b19b7d8/exploded-axon-01.png" /> <img width="2400" height="5100" width_o="2400" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bf1e6b035606500f1921d0ed0b071ec7fbb81c1db6bf94d42cca3ef16d3215e/industry-phasing.png" data-mid="157627386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bf1e6b035606500f1921d0ed0b071ec7fbb81c1db6bf94d42cca3ef16d3215e/industry-phasing.png" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14d6b4c198b9fa039010e0e2647436f52e9ca5a1ccf2c1f73e5153a5cf3f9751/industry-axon.png" data-mid="157627769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14d6b4c198b9fa039010e0e2647436f52e9ca5a1ccf2c1f73e5153a5cf3f9751/industry-axon.png" /> <img width="5700" height="5100" width_o="5700" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58f41863270295ec5b92d04f00e9393aae6540649d05d3951c545f41c1653408/sites-map.png" data-mid="157628562" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58f41863270295ec5b92d04f00e9393aae6540649d05d3951c545f41c1653408/sites-map.png" /> produced for PennDesign&nbsp;Core Urban Design Studio: Futuring Philadelphia critic: Jae Shin https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-sea-of-grass Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:14:09 +0000 ari vamos https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-sea-of-grass sea of grass the death + afterlife of infrastructure on lake okeechobee spring 2022 Also known as Florida’s Inland Sea, Lake Okeechobee covers 730 square miles and is the second largest freshwater lake fully contained in the lower 48. Located at the northern end of the massive Everglades system, the lake is extremely shallow, averaging just 9 feet in depth, and ecologically rich, home to over 40 species of fish, waterbirds, alligators, and thousands of arthropods. It is also the heart of the South Florida Water Management District, a highly engineered system of canals, dikes, and sluice gates that controls the water for a large agricultural area dominated by sugar cane. This project is a counterfactual imagining of the death and afterlife of this flood control infrastructure. It imagines that a hurricane struck in 1933 during the construction of the dike around Lake Okeechobee, obliterating the beginnings of the water control system and wreaking havoc on the surrounding cane farms. Frustrated with the slow progress of the federal infrastructure, the sugar companies advocated for a buyout program that allowed them to relocate further north, leaving the dike uncompleted. But of course, some people remained. Small communities of agricultural workers, left behind by the disaster response, continued to make their home along the lake’s southern edge. Abandoned cane fields flooded again, and inhabitants began the slow process of undoing the failed water control infrastructure and restoring the lake’s historic flow to the Everglades. Without industrial agriculture, the few remaining residents turned to the lake and its growing abundance of fish, clams, and freshwater mussels. These small communities developed methods of living with the lake’s ebb and flow, combining Seminole stilt building practices with a variety of floating structures layered on top of the ruins of Army Corps infrastructure. The residents were fiercely independent, protective of both their self-determination and the Everglades ecology they relied on. As coastal cities grew, however, so did interest in taming Lake Okeechobee. Water managers began developing plans to divert lake water to Miami, Palm Beach, and other growing tourist communities in increasing need of fresh water. Unlike the first Army Corps intervention, however, this new plan met with stiff resistance from the residents of the lake’s shores. This project encounters Lake Okeechobee at the moment of conflict between the proposed water diversion plan and the independent communities that have learned to live with the lake. It explores the various strategies residents use to occupy the lake, from ephemeral practices of clam digging to floating aquaculture dock structures to defensive airboats that patrol the lake to chase off water prospectors. It imagines a world after flood control infrastructure, where habitation around the lake depends not on reinforcing it as a container for water, but on living with it as a process of flow. <img width="10800" height="7200" width_o="10800" height_o="7200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1bbc7f94876956149888a5ddfa5591ad2b0f16712f4d6a92f1d699d4bd257cf/dock-01.png" data-mid="157630528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1bbc7f94876956149888a5ddfa5591ad2b0f16712f4d6a92f1d699d4bd257cf/dock-01.png" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cf33ee4567c6f9d8fedcab3e0968e0fb2594ac3f35b62aae1a22a657cf94b47/Postcard-1.png" data-mid="157630536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cf33ee4567c6f9d8fedcab3e0968e0fb2594ac3f35b62aae1a22a657cf94b47/Postcard-1.png" /> <img width="3000" height="1941" width_o="3000" height_o="1941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97fe2e70661744c364e54529b871f63585c80f6792fa868515112f5c1e4b4f07/Postcard-2.png" data-mid="157630763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97fe2e70661744c364e54529b871f63585c80f6792fa868515112f5c1e4b4f07/Postcard-2.png" /> <img width="3000" height="1941" width_o="3000" height_o="1941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9659f4cd78f7bf4ddb3ae009c7c18ef6bde10e55e0c99df46e898558399cc81f/Postcard-3.png" data-mid="157630765" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9659f4cd78f7bf4ddb3ae009c7c18ef6bde10e55e0c99df46e898558399cc81f/Postcard-3.png" /> <img width="4032" height="2504" width_o="4032" height_o="2504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c61337015479e9c0d554afe7cb53b8cb75a1437efad5c70dce6fca5dcc676385/model-2.png" data-mid="157630533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c61337015479e9c0d554afe7cb53b8cb75a1437efad5c70dce6fca5dcc676385/model-2.png" /> <img width="4032" height="2504" width_o="4032" height_o="2504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01bcbbeb51e8799bbe670cdcc3b950f7a9bf0d495c6c99d228d757ffa2bc42e0/model-1.png" data-mid="157630530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01bcbbeb51e8799bbe670cdcc3b950f7a9bf0d495c6c99d228d757ffa2bc42e0/model-1.png" /> produced for PennDesign course&nbsp;Takes on Lakes&nbsp; instructor: Sean Burkholder https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-about-me Tue, 01 Nov 2022 23:01:18 +0000 ari vamos https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-about-me about Ari works as a landscape designer on unceded Coast Salish lands (Seattle). Their current research interests include reimagining community-based design in the face of climate crisis, engaging queer landscape histories that resist conventional design documentation, and the agency of landscape architecture in rural places. They came to landscape architecture after working in urban agriculture, community organizing, and neighborhood economic development in Philadelphia. Before Philly, they received a BA in Urban Studies from Vassar College. This experience informs their interest in design as a tool for building collective agency and exploring liberatory, equitable futures. <img width="2500" height="2500" width_o="2500" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60cd8a77853a37d19a45eda925c4a055da1b38e34932444ced44c1d06d0caa59/ABLE-Ari-Vamos-A.jpg" data-mid="222100807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60cd8a77853a37d19a45eda925c4a055da1b38e34932444ced44c1d06d0caa59/ABLE-Ari-Vamos-A.jpg" /> https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-publications Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:03:56 +0000 ari vamos https://arivamos.cargo.site/ari-vamos-publications publications <img width="4000" height="2250" width_o="4000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce315fea91feb287cf459a2271c0b96cdda74027c6ea6d61f64bd9c2928e30c2/TwinBusesOnTwinBridges.jpg" data-mid="157632638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce315fea91feb287cf459a2271c0b96cdda74027c6ea6d61f64bd9c2928e30c2/TwinBusesOnTwinBridges.jpg" /> PANORAMA 2022 What Counts As InfrastructureIn Philadelphia, what counts as infrastructure? What deserves repair and maintenance? with A.L. McCullough and Daniel Flinchbaugh "Bridges tie together communities, they facilitate work, and their continual repair and maintenance provides good jobs—and so too, do public schools. Public schools are infrastructure—and recognizing public schools as infrastructure in the political imagination means demanding national financial support for repair and maintenance.”