Printing Provenance

Abstract

More often than not, current material practices within Architecture have become ecologically, culturally, and socially inaccessible. This thesis moves away from vast and inaccessible material networks to focus on how local practices and experiences can foster more reciprocal relationships between our making modalities, material, and the landscapes that we extract from and build within. The project centers itself within Medicine Hat, Alberta, a landscape with deep ties to ceramic material processes and extraction. And similarly, the work looks to printing processes as a method for participating more reciprocally with landscape and the materials present within. This thesis works to re-frame printing technologies amidst the fragmented material fabric Medicine Hat offers. And through a lens of “mounding,” the work looks to integrate various gestures, modalities, materials, and participants in an effort to ask how printing modalities might offer up opportunities for experiencing and participating in the material landscape.