Syn-Urban Assemblages
Throughout North America, the suburbs are a pervasive condition that emerge at the periphery of every major metropolitan…
Domestic Prosthetics for Cohabitation
The project explores possible conditions of cohabitation through the design of domestic prosthetics for the single-family detached house. Three…
Between Human and Animal
The space of greatest tension between human and animal is the domestic territory of the house. Suburbs are therefore at the front line of the confrontation between humans and synanthropic animals. As woodlots and agrarian landscape are converted into residential communities, highly adaptive animals seek out new habitat opportunities.
Knowing the Synanthrope
Humanity defines animals by their relationships to humans. Through this lens non-human species are categorized into two forms; domestic – dependent on humans for survival and augmented to live as companion species to humans, and wild – independent, capable of sustaining life without anthropogenic support. These relationships are based broadly on the level of human intervention required for an animal to survive.