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Social Architectures

UC San Diego MFA · 2006–2007 · 71 images

Visual documentation from a project workspace at UC San Diego exploring how the physical environment shapes public behavior — public-seating experiments, site-specific memorials, garden installations, and bulletin-board interventions on campus.

The wiki where this work originally lived (socialarchitectures.pbworks.com) is a shared workspace with classmates from the MFA program; not every image below is exclusively my own work. Surfacing this here as personal archival, in case the wiki goes offline.

The Bus Stop Living Room

A bus stop reconfigured as a domestic living room — couches, side tables, a working lamp — testing how people behave when public seating is treated like private furniture.

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The Invisible Shape of University Past

A site-specific memorial project marking the location where UCSD student George Winne Jr. self-immolated in May 1970 as a protest against the Vietnam War.

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The Labyrinth

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Mobile Garden & Outdoor Installations

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Site Documentation — UCSD Campus

Context shots: Revelle College, Library Walk, Price Center, Sun God Lawn, ERC Green.

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Bulletin Boards & Public Communication

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Projections, Drawings & Studio Work

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Field Documentation

Site visits, project iterations, and miscellaneous documentation that doesn't fit a single grouping.

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