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If architecture is implicated in global waste streams that continue to make the planet uninhabitable, this thesis prompts reflection on consumer habits by harnessing the empathic power of storytelling to transform a building – an anonymous plastics factory – into the narrator of a tale about junk and justice.


Alan Escareño, M.Arch.thesis 2021


Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning


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In 2030, the demand and use of fossil fuels has plateaued and the oil giants scramble to latch onto new, more diversified markets. Whilst still an important chunk of the economy, the power of oil slowly extinguishes as the world rapidly shifts to renewables following vital legislation restraining the negative impacts of the energy economy. Nations imposed limitarianist policies to force the small-but-powerful super-rich citizens and corporations to come to the aid of the warming planet they helped create. In addition to these policies, the billions in subsidies provided to oil companies by the rest of the population were freed up for space exploration programmes in the U.S.
 
Although far from a techno utopia, these programmes hope to bring back technological solutions to the problems we face within our marble as it drifts through space.

During a time when it is easier to imagine a company like Amazon on the moon than seeing the end of capitalism, we must question how we got here and ensure it isn’t just up to the few people hoarding the wealth to decide the fate of the Earth and its inhabitants. Our problems will not be so simply resolved after being in the making for so long. We know our future is not in fossil fuels, yet we continuously rely on these and push our own deadlines further down a dimming future. The state of Texas’ reliance on this industry has left scars on the land which was senselessly abused for our oil-filled desires -&#38;nbsp; polluting lands and water bodies, top and subsoils, pumping the air with chemicals. This is not exclusive to this state or the U.S. however, worldwide our systems of exports and production continuously create progressively obvious consequences for ourselves and our environment.
 
We’re not just here to talk about oil, there are many great pieces on it. It is cheap, it is messy, it is a commodity, and it is everywhere. But have you given a second thought to the countless cups, bowls, caps, straps, forks, straws, glass, and anything containing parts? We know the movements which have taken place against these cumbersome materials - but it becomes&#38;nbsp; background noise when it comes to their “hidden” places: gadget and machine parts - our everyday technological marvels the size of our pocket, the mat under our feet preventing the plastic wheels of your chair from scratching a vinyl floor, it is everywhere but seemingly nowhere. Where did it come from? Where will it go?


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Our foremothers’ and fathers’ mistake was the complacency created by this industry. We continue facing the same foggy future, only now it is riddled with ungovernable plastic and an exigent need to degrow. Do you truly know where the keyboard you’re using came from? What about where it will go once you deem it not clicky enough? Whether it’s attached to your laptop or connected through a plastic-coated USB cable. These producs you use daily are the synthesis of fossil remains, manufactured for your convenience - until it breaks a couple months down the road.
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While we collectively scramble to clean up oceans and try to move away from this toxic part of our history,this will not be the long term solution. The most important thing we have learned from decades of space travel is the need to be resourceful and keep everything we use in mind. The shit you flush down the toilet will be freeze-dried and stored in bags, the packaging for your dehydrated meal must be stored somewhere and can’t simply be littered into space.
 So how can we force people to think this way about our own planet when it’s as easy as talking to your corporate-sponsored home-assistant to reorder that toy your child just broke whilst still grasping the broken toy on its way to the trash bin.


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The age of commercial spaceflight is here, and the possible abandonment of our home looms nearer with each trek.Recycling programs remain an inefficient facade by big plastic to convince us to continue consumption while avoiding the problem and only making matters worse. We can do better.


A vast, empty nether - at times containing gasses, solids, plasma here and there. Then there’s us; floating in the vast and expanding unknown. Humans have relied on buildings for shelter for millenia and while we get increasingly clever with our descriptions of these and for the value they hold (whether culturally or through capital) we rely on the same archaic methods for their construction, entangling ourselves with analogous practices across the globe. It is known that buildings account for a large share in the process of extraction and trade of resources extracted from the home planet, producing byproducts at almost every step of the way. From the fuel bringing the materials into the jobsite, to the displacement of dirt excavated for a foundation,and the creation of laboral issues created in a different part of the world for the shiny, durable plastic cladding shaped by tens to hundreds of hands and embodied travel from its extraction in texas, the trek it goes through in a ten inch pipe across territories, into the foundry of a chemical plant where it eventually finds itself in a container bound for China where it will encounter more artificial landscapes and will be transformed into your next amazon purchase, wrapped and ready to go at the expense of a worker forced to relieve themselves into plastic bottles so your order arrives on time. But where to next?
	

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	他们都说
They all say

我是个话很少的孩子
I'm a child of few words

对此我并不否认
This I don't deny

实际上
But actually

我说与不说
Whether I speak or not

都会跟这个社会
With this society I'll still

发生冲突
Conflict
	

一颗螺丝掉在地上
A screw fell to the ground

在这个加班的夜晚
In this dark night of overtime

垂直降落，轻轻一响
Plunging vertically, lightly clinking

不会引起任何人的注意
It won’t attract anyone’s attention

就像在此之前
Just like last time

某个相同的夜晚On a night like this

有个人掉在地上
When someone plunged to the 


I swallowed a moon made of iron

They refer to it as a nail

I swallowed this industrial sewage, these unemployment documents

Youth stooped at machines die before their time

I swallowed the hustle and the destitution

Swallowed pedestrian bridges, life covered in rust

I can't swallow any more

All that I've swallowed is now gushing out of my throat

Unfurling on the land of my ancestors

Into a disgraceful poem.


National Suicide Prevention Hotline:

988


I stand by the road watching the road

a flow of pedestrians and vehicles coming and going

I stand under a tree, under a bus stop sign

watching the flow of water coming and going

the flow of blood and desire coming and going

I stand by the road watching the flow of them coming and going

on the road they watch the flow of me coming and going

they are in a river, I am on the shore

they are bare and struggling to swim as fast as they can

the sight infects me

I try to decide if I should go into the river too

to struggle with them, to clench my teeth

I try to decide, as the sun sinks beneath the hills


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