Paradigm Map: Global Logistical Landscapes

Map Title:  Global Technology & Organizational Space, Landscapes of Surplus

Thesis is a projection of a new narrative over the effects that global supply chain logistics will have on the urban landscape.  It anticipates the increasing vastness of network of surplus which will foster a new urban typology.

  

Current trajectory of paradigmatic issues and charting of academic discourse related to the thesis is at hand.  Question for the thesis then is if interests lie in amplifying the potential latent urban conditions of a emerging global logistical landscapes or synthesizing the various paradigms of logistics landsapes
and speculating over trajectories that might result in new kinds of built artifacts.

There is also the issue of scale that has not been decided in this thesis:  a global, regional, urban, or architectural.  It would be ideal if the design proposal capture all these levels at various scales, but it will likely be be an amalgamation of each level.

Next week's program assignment will likely force the issue of thesis interests and scale to be determined.