Mississippi Delta Studio, Spring
2000
Instructors:
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip daCunha
Students:
Michelle Arab
Adam Greenspan
Michelle Hollins
Yumi Lee
Hyo Jung Kim
Akiko Ono
Paul Samala
Karen Tamir
The Mississippi Delta poses a particular challenge to designers in the face of its tumultuous history of inundation, reclamation, and discrimination. Out of the mainstream of American life and prosperity, there is an elusiveness and resistance buried deep in the soil of this working landscape of former plantations, levees, ditches, mechanized farming, Wal-marts, small towns and rural shacks. The aim of the studio is to propose landscape projects that recognize and engage the elusiveness of the Delta, the material processes and practices that lie ‘behind the scene’.
Instructors:
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip daCunha
Students:
Michelle Arab
Adam Greenspan
Michelle Hollins
Yumi Lee
Hyo Jung Kim
Akiko Ono
Paul Samala
Karen Tamir
The Mississippi Delta poses a particular challenge to designers in the face of its tumultuous history of inundation, reclamation, and discrimination. Out of the mainstream of American life and prosperity, there is an elusiveness and resistance buried deep in the soil of this working landscape of former plantations, levees, ditches, mechanized farming, Wal-marts, small towns and rural shacks. The aim of the studio is to propose landscape projects that recognize and engage the elusiveness of the Delta, the material processes and practices that lie ‘behind the scene’.
With Clinton singling out the Delta for investment there is an opportunity for these projects to be more than enclaves. They can be armatures, catalysts and frameworks that reach out with rewarding consequences far beyond the scale of intervention. These projects can provide the ‘infrastructure’ of a new order that transforms the Delta, both programmatically and materially, to accommodate its unique nature.
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