THESPEENA

CA :: 2D

November 2013 / Barcelona / urban lightscapes workshop

with the team: beforelight

"Disaster-Cosmogony: Living on the edge of water" Research Thesis / July 2013 / NTUA 

We are in 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, flooding 80% of the city. A city is born by the water and then falls victim to the ravages of nature.It is thus investigated the reason the city is growing in this limit, and whether the man is responsible for the destruction. This study uses two parallel narratives. A symbolistic literary narrative which places more emphasis on our personal vision for each city's identity, and a more scientific one, which focuses on solid evidence of the reality, from scientific definitions of water elements to computable scale of the disaster, captured as spatial data in cities. Through this work, it is explored whether the scientific leadership will ever be able to control the unpredictability of the natural element.