FIELDS OF FIELDS

CORE I | FALL 20211

Prof Thomas De Monchaux

The thread this imagined reality intertwone the Jacob Javits Center and the “end” of America’s occupation of Afghanistan began with fields. The infinite of central rug motifs, the infinite of the Miesian spaceframe, overlaid. The spectatorship of “the other” through early world fairs, the Crystal Palace being the first convention center.

With the end of America’s occupation of Afghanistan, rather the occupation the begin with, the world witnessed a new Afghani diaspora. As refugees arrive at the Jacob Javits Center in this proposal, the project interrogates, ideas of spectatorship through conventions, refugee cities, and the overlooked parralels between the two.