Will Langston Modi Blog

  Will Langston I have been doing some research on our culture's vision of outer space and what are the ways in which we think about settlements. When people think of living in outer space they automatically think of these crazy giant scale settlements. These preconceived notions have no history and are defined by unprecedented plans that seemingly have no correlation between how humans want to live and of outer space living.  Looking at works of Fred Scharmen, it is clear there are 3 main types of audiences that some of the works or visionary outer space planning can reach.  He talks about the “Big science, technical audience. Pop culture visionary futurist audience. Post counter cultural audience.”  It is very clear that the works he talks about have an intention of creating settlements that are not dependent on planets. Studying works that instead create these wheels that are miles long that can home up to 1 million people.  I think it is interesting to creat...

Will Langston I have selected the thesis of Daniel Barker:  Collage, Perspective, and Space: The Consequences of the Method of Mies van der Rohe This thesis was very helpful to start to understand that maybe I do not know everything about my topic yet, but through method exploration I can begin to understand some key aspects of what I am trying to understand. Because it seems that when looking at his thesis. It is obvious that through these collage methods he was able to understand how Miles was using things such as proportion, perspective, and space to inform his design methods. This could very well apply to what I am trying to accomplish in my thesis. Possibly creating a set of drawings that could help me explore how we begin to build to adapt to interplanetary environments.  Being able to tell a story through my thesis is something that I have been thinking about doing ever since the beginning weeks of this class. I want to potentially take the readers, on a journey of how ...