18km Coastline:
The Symbiotic Forms of Electricity Production as Urban Fabric Reinvention On Gotland
Independent Master Thesis Design Project, 30 credits
M.Sc. Sustaianble Urban Planning and Design in Archtecture
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture
Supervisor: Alejandra Navarrete Llopis
Published on: Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet
DiVA, id: diva2:1566293
Thesis Abstract
In the 70s, the wind energy development on Gotland was the largest scale of wind farm testing in Sweden. And now they are facing several problems – for example, how to expand the grid efficiently and produce the electricity for self-efficient use, due to the frequent power cut-off. However, the actual impact of wind energy on earth is still unclear, plus the existing harm to birds and bats, and the lifecycle of turbines also causes the local contamination.
The thesis project which spaned cross half-year, focuses on the symbiotic forms of electricity production on Gotland, Sweden between territories – the ocean and the land, the fluid and the solid, the human and more-than-human. Through series of investigation on landscape and vegetation along the west coast of Gotland, the design strategies are proposed not only to reclaim the territories and create an inhabiting ‘electricitarium’, but also deal with the large-scale rural landscapes and objects that are to provide for a remote urbanity.
Rooted from the posthumanism and eco-feminism, the ultimate intention is to unfold the planetary conflicts from different perspectives and explore how human could work with non-human entities to operate alternative ways of energy production from materiality and the everyday life as a collective practice.
In the 70s, the wind energy development on Gotland was the largest scale of wind farm testing in Sweden. And now they are facing several problems – for example, how to expand the grid efficiently and produce the electricity for self-efficient use, due to the frequent power cut-off. However, the actual impact of wind energy on earth is still unclear, plus the existing harm to birds and bats, and the lifecycle of turbines also causes the local contamination.
The thesis project which spaned cross half-year, focuses on the symbiotic forms of electricity production on Gotland, Sweden between territories – the ocean and the land, the fluid and the solid, the human and more-than-human. Through series of investigation on landscape and vegetation along the west coast of Gotland, the design strategies are proposed not only to reclaim the territories and create an inhabiting ‘electricitarium’, but also deal with the large-scale rural landscapes and objects that are to provide for a remote urbanity.
Rooted from the posthumanism and eco-feminism, the ultimate intention is to unfold the planetary conflicts from different perspectives and explore how human could work with non-human entities to operate alternative ways of energy production from materiality and the everyday life as a collective practice.
About Booklet
After I completed the thesis project defense in June 2021 and was issued the MSc. Degree in Urban Design, I start to re-organized my thesis into a book form, trying to make it a complete work to documenting the whole process throughout the half-year. It includes the interview I had with Baltic Art Center and Uppsala University Wind Energy Research Unit, the development from ideating to the design proposal, and the complementary essays.
✹ Full book upon request
✹ Any collaboration regarding the publishing or printed matter are welcomed
After I completed the thesis project defense in June 2021 and was issued the MSc. Degree in Urban Design, I start to re-organized my thesis into a book form, trying to make it a complete work to documenting the whole process throughout the half-year. It includes the interview I had with Baltic Art Center and Uppsala University Wind Energy Research Unit, the development from ideating to the design proposal, and the complementary essays.
✹ Full book upon request
✹ Any collaboration regarding the publishing or printed matter are welcomed
2021
Genre: Urban Design, Book Design, Editorial Design