The Things We’ve Done for a Table Leg: A Landscape Narrative Approach to the Colonial Mahogany Trade
| dc.contributor.author | Maxson, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-25T23:37:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-25T23:37:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-25 | |
| dc.description | Examining committee chair: Jacques Abelman | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The troubling material history of the colonial mahogany trade’s ties to slave labor and environmental degradation is often obscured by the reverence we place on the craftsmanship and pedigree of its products. Although historians have explored this complex past, the story has not been told through landscape, which can engage people differently than text, film, or images. This project uses designed landscape narratives to tell the story of the colonial mahogany trade and to reveal the social and environmental entanglements that developed with this system of commerce. This research through designing project is structured by the two branches of a narrative: story and telling. The story of the colonial mahogany trade is uncovered through literature reviews and visualization methods like drawing and modeling, and distilled into the elemental pieces of a story: characters, events, and settings. Similarly, the project explores the elements of a landscape narrative: spaces, components, and sequences, and uses them to analyze designed landscape narratives to find ways to tell a story. ‘Story’ and ‘Telling’ are synthesized together into final design proposals at Easton’s Point in Newport, Rhode Island and at Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann, Jamaica. The final proposals offer a new way to design multiple landscape narratives to tell a story of the colonial mahogany trade, and further explore landscape architecture’s potential to engage with complex material and social histories. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23670 | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Landscape Architecture Program, M.S.; | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Landscape narrative | en_US |
| dc.subject | Research through designing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Colonial mahogany trade | en_US |
| dc.subject | Landscape architecture | en_US |
| dc.title | The Things We’ve Done for a Table Leg: A Landscape Narrative Approach to the Colonial Mahogany Trade | en_US |
| dc.type | Terminal Project | en_US |