Instagram's Blind Spot: An Architect's Playground in a Trending Utopia

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Instagram's Blind Spot: An Architect's Playground in a Trending Utopia

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2019

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title: Instagram's Blind Spot: An Architect's Playground in a Trending Utopia

creator: Kevin Roche

subject: Architecture and technology; Architectural design, 20th century, History; Architecture and social media

description: The world is constantly shifting and adapting to its surroundings.Trends come and go as humans search for their true identity. Social streamsand digital applications dictate our actions and motives for design. As thehuman subject evolves the world of cybernetics will continue to grow with itsoverreaching boundaries. Branding, marketing and advertising are catalyststo the future as we continue to understand the aesthetic responses of the subject to image culture. Our perception of the world has become reliant on visual based technology. This has allowed architecture to become disembodiedfrom the site, stripped of location, culture and history. As the human subjectbecomes lost in a world blurred by the mundane, it is time to bring agencyback to architecture through a trending utopia of instagrams top architecturalimages. It is the escape from the political, economical, and social structure ofsociety that will spon creativity. As humans continue to adapt to their surroundings it is the virtual world, the pixelated tundra that must be exploredinorder to bring criticality back to design.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2019

type: Thesis

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language: eng

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