LANDSCAPES OF REPULSION: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SITE Harvard Graduate School of Design, MLA Thesis 2022 Author: Colleen Sloan Advisor: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
This thesis interrogates landscape architecture’s participation in the cleaning and concealing of repugnant sites of industry through the creation of a public mountain range in Iowa constructed from the wastes of the industrial hog industry. The constructed mountains, dubbed the De Soto Range, reveal the repulsions of industry through the collapsing in space of pleasure landscapes and disgust. In doing so, the site becomes a battleground of differing political ideologies, motives, and backgrounds connected by a common reality.
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