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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Shape of Consent: A Commentary on Emergent Forms within Suburbia

Shaver, Andrew Charles 03 June 2024 (has links)
This thesis reveals relationships between the neoliberal subject and the suburban subject relative to the built environment. It argues that today's "architecture" is an integration of digital and analog worlds. The thesis articulates that American society's subjectivity is imposed by a consumer condition that is tied to the iconography of suburban landscape, such as the iconic house shape or a recognizable brand icon. The advent of the internet accelerated this condition by providing additional conduits of capital-based icons to emerge from and merge with the suburbs. The work focuses on creating parallels between the American suburban landscape, the suburban home, digital infrastructure, and the emerging structures which merge with the internet. The thesis asserts that the suburban project dominates the entirety of the landscape and is the governing force building an incipient landscape. The written part of the thesis discusses how our modern identity, influenced by both physical and digital worlds, has evolved from suburban roots, while the visual commentary uses architectural drawings to reveal four modalities which frame our environment and shape our lives and interactions. / Master of Science / This thesis looks at how architecture shapes our lives and frames our interactions with the world around us. It specifically focuses on how suburban landscapes influence our identity and behavior, emphasizing the typical suburban elements like single-family housing, commercial strip development, and global consumer goods that define this environment. The rise of the internet has intensified these suburban influences by connecting the suburban environment more deeply with the flow of money and data. The research interrogates and uses images and symbols from the suburban landscape to comment on their latent impact on our surroundings and how they now blend with digital technology. The thesis develops the connections between the physical suburban environment and developing digital infrastructures to articulate emergent structures in their combination. The written part of the thesis discusses how our modern identity, influenced by both physical and digital worlds, has evolved from suburban roots. A visual commentary uses architectural drawings to reveal four modalities which frame our environment and shapes our lives and interactions.

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