Of the thesis entitled: Teleportation: The Possible Leap
Abstract:
This thesis tells a story, inviting its audience into a parallel world, existing somewhere in my imagination, where human teleportation becomes real and gradually becomes the most prevalent method of transportation. Throughout our speculative travels we will witness the philosophical, social, political, environmental, and architectural implications of this fantastical technology.
Following the tradition of speculative (or visionary) architecture, this thesis seeks to produce criticism of and question the current condition of matters through the speculation of a possible future. To this end, it utilizes teleportation as an exaggerated metaphor for existing or emerging technologies in order to magnify their impacts on our notion of things, environments, as well as our behavioral motives in both individual and social scale.
The examining committee is as follows:
Supervisor:
Terri Boake, University of Waterloo
Committee Member:
Tracey
Winton,
University
of
Waterloo
Val
Rynnimeri,
University
of
Waterloo
External Reader:
Jimenez Lai, University of California, Los Angeles
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Friday September
6,
2019
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.