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A Sahara in the Head: The Problem of Landing

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posted on 2023-05-19, 01:21 authored by Michael Hornblow
A Landscape Design student came to me once after class, with the feeling that his project wasn’t going to work on technical grounds - sand dunes just don’t move that way in the Sahara. We could both see the potential unraveling this might create for everything informing the design process - site analysis, sociopolitical context, tools and techniques, theoretical framework. Only weeks to go to final presentation and the “Crit-Sheet” could be heard flapping urgently with its reductive numerical evaluation.

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8

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222-238

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1916-5870

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School of Architecture and Design

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Open Humanites Press

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London, UK

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Copyright 2015 The Author Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/#

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