Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Post-mordial : esoteric embodiment
Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies (Architectural Design), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017. ; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Page 180 blank. ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-176). ; This thesis speculates that common funerary practices do not reflect a wide enough range of contemporary cultural attitudes towards religion, spirituality, and mortality. As human beings increasingly embrace the paradigms of bioinformatics and digital fabrication, this thesis proposes that alternative funerary practices will arise to reflect these cultural attitudes, with individuals taking on increasing levels of both personal and collaborative agency in the design of their own memorial artifacts, and those of their loved ones. Through a series of speculative models, this thesis projects a scenario in which a group of humans embrace their corporeal materiality and its internalized information as precious and sacred, to produce memorial artifacts that are constructed from their own biomatter, and that formally encode streams of genetic information. The artifacts become esoteric 'post-mordial' emodiments of human being, existing as totems of their lineage, and 'momento mori' for remaining humans. ; by Kristopher G. Menos. ; S.M. in Architecture Studies (Architectural Design)
Post-mordial : esoteric embodiment
Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies (Architectural Design), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017. ; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Page 180 blank. ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-176). ; This thesis speculates that common funerary practices do not reflect a wide enough range of contemporary cultural attitudes towards religion, spirituality, and mortality. As human beings increasingly embrace the paradigms of bioinformatics and digital fabrication, this thesis proposes that alternative funerary practices will arise to reflect these cultural attitudes, with individuals taking on increasing levels of both personal and collaborative agency in the design of their own memorial artifacts, and those of their loved ones. Through a series of speculative models, this thesis projects a scenario in which a group of humans embrace their corporeal materiality and its internalized information as precious and sacred, to produce memorial artifacts that are constructed from their own biomatter, and that formally encode streams of genetic information. The artifacts become esoteric 'post-mordial' emodiments of human being, existing as totems of their lineage, and 'momento mori' for remaining humans. ; by Kristopher G. Menos. ; S.M. in Architecture Studies (Architectural Design)
Post-mordial : esoteric embodiment
01.01.2017
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Hochschulschrift
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Taḥdhã Bahī, esoteric shrine and the courtyard, view from E
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Oku Bāhāḥ, esoteric building and courtyard, view from N
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Su Bāhāḥ, esoteric god house and the courtyard, view from W
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Mū Guitaḥ Bahī, esoteric god house and courtyard, view from N
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