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Lectures Beirut from a Distance June 20th 6:59 AM

Undergraduate Landscape – Murrin Bridge past Present Future Planting November 6th 9:44 AM

Highlights An Ode to Ashfield – Marni Reti and Adelaide Lehmann November 6th 5:55 AM

Masters Architecture – Domestic Formalities June 19th 3:59 AM

Undergraduate Interior – Inhabitations November 6th 1:45 AM

Undergraduate Landscape – Legends for Reconstructing the Burnt Forest June 19th 10:57 PM

Research Master – (In)Security: Surveillance, Territory and Re-bordering Architecture New spatial and material frontiers of migration and war October 23rd 3:06 AM

Highlights Extremophiles of the McMurdo Dry Valleys – Patrick Fitz-Hayes and Georgia Jamieson November 6th 10:28 AM

Undergraduate Interior – Performative Spaces June 19th 2:22 AM

Lectures Sarah Hearne – Other Things Visible on Paper October 29th 4:28 AM

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Highlights November 6th 2020
Extremophiles of the McMurdo Dry Valleys – Patrick Fitz-Hayes and Georgia Jamieson

In studying the endolithic communities of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a reframing of scale has characterised our research. The varying timescales of the beings and their geological habitats have revealed a new temporal understanding of climate oscillations, and the position of the human within them. The world cannot be understood as the living and nonliving, but of an inconceivably complex system of material flows. Every actor mediates these movements. Over millennia, the biotic and abiotic have engaged in co-evolution, and as life emerged and increased in complexity, they, in turn, increased mineral abundance. Two out of three minerals we see today arise as a result of biological processes. Abiotic material creeps, explodes, crystallises and intrudes into the biotic sphere where it spits, leeches, burrows and breeds.

Our new claim of territory blurs distinctions. A commons, not only as a sharing of resources but as a place of multispecies negotiation, integration, relation, contention and confrontation. Encountering an Epochal consciousness is being thrown into the realisation that the earth is not just here for our human habitation. We are part of a system of material and energetic flows that move both before and beyond us. If we are able to remove the borders of space and time from our understanding of the ecological crisis and our position within these flows, we can begin to move towards a multispecies commons that can sustain the unforeseeable future of Earth’s flux.

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