2022-2023 Senior Honors Theses
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This collection contains theses produced by Class of 2023 Honors students
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Item Crossing the Weaponized Landscape(2023-05-09) Perez, Allan VidalThe study area of the thesis encompasses 259,981 hectares of the Sonoran Desert on the Arizona border, named the Altar Valley. Centered on Arivaca, Arizona, the Altar Valley has been one of the most popular crossing corridors along the US-Mexico border in the past two decades. Due to Customs and Border Patrols' strategic efforts in deterring future migration, this desert landscape has been efficiently weaponized as a barrier for informal crossing and is now the site of hundreds of migrant deaths per year and hundreds of unidentified remains. The study examines the spatial conditions created by key surveillance technology the CBP uses to survey the landscape and develops a route and information system that mitigates death and detection as much as possible.Item Latency as the Desaturator of Cities: Metropolitan Acupuncture(2023-05-01) Xavier, Bruno Belo TelesThis is an investigation on cities, our cities, and their ever-growing battle with densification. As cities become increasingly densified, their density begins to encroach onto the human space, preventing its inhabitants from building relationships with the spaces they inhabit. This paper seeks to explore marginal and unconventional ways to design urban spaces in order to both prevent and remediate saturated urban conditions from taking root, utilizing the spaces of the city which seem unsuitable for the use of the public. This is a provocation to instigate the search for new ways in which people can continue to express their human condition in spaces that tend to keep increasing in density.