Telesis - Habitation (2021)

Abstract

New Headspace: Ink drawing on paper by Dimitri Bradford celebrating the constant mental transition we all undergo to discover new mindscapes and inner spaces.

Realizing Memory: Exhibit of sculptures by Jason Cytacki recreating midwestern vignettes from family photos, archival images, and memories.

Orienting Migrations: Ben DeCuyper explores monuments and markers of migration, such as roman terminus obelisks and indigenous American trail markers, culminating in a proposal for a “Clean Air Wayfinding Apparatus” that may prove critical in future climates.

Honeycomb Habitation: Kaitlin Salisbury proposes a model for human-honeybee cohabitation in spaces like parks based on honeybee ecology. Transient Urbanism: Ricardo Silva explores solutions to the “donut effect” of urban sprawl, where cities continually build where there is no existing infrastructure. Silva’s proposal comes in the form of creating new housing by adapting existing parking garages.

Environing Tension: A series of drawings by Haley Cytacki consider how we navigate the web of environments, histories, cultures, and experiences forming our individual perceptions of existence in unpredictable ways.

Feronia Towers: Carlos Valverde and Michelle Vizcaino present a high-rise housing concept that integrates vertical farming into a high capacity residential building, while further including common spaces for agricultural production.

Indigenous Growth: Luis Felipe Flores Garzon counters the ways in which humankind has positioned themselves as a superior entity to other creatures and nature itself by exploring Indigenous populations in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador, to consider more broadly how unique cultures fully correspond to their environment and how recent developments in the area have alienated communities, producing a strong clash with their customs and way of life.

Affordable Housing Lab: The OU affordable Housing Lab and Francesco Cianfarani present data analysis and visualization produced in the seminar ARCH 4970/5970 Housing Design and Research. adaptOKC: Transcript of a lecture to the Telesis seminar by T.O. Bowman, Program Planner of Oklahoma City’s Office of Sustainability covering Oklahoma City’s first comprehensive sustainability plan.

Inhabiting Border Spaces: René Peralta argues that the twenty-first-century border is both a physical infrastructure imposed by the state, as well as a social infrastructure re-coded by its citizens. The border is a contested region that can breed new forms of cultural convergence between human and nonhuman actors, leading to the emergence of new forms of sovereignty.

Interview w/ Rene Peralta: Luis Felipe Flores Garzon interviews René Peralta, Greene Fellow at OU, on perspectives on architecture and borders, especially for trans-border citizens.