Minas, as in mines

Minas, as in mines: A hauntological approach to the site of disaster

da Porciúncula Paias, Alina (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Grossman, Vanessa (mentor)
van der Meel, H.L. (mentor)
Kousoulas, Stavros (mentor)
de Wolff, H.W. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2022-07-01

This project deals with the event of disaster; more specifically, the contamination and destruction by a wave of sediment of towns in the Iron Quadrangle and the Rio Doce valley after the rupture of a tailings dam on November 5, 2015, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Through the manipulation and questioning of concepts such as hauntology, ongoingness, contamination, co-constitution, purity and complexity drawn from several theoretical sources, this work proposes a life-affirming site for the circulation of materials, people and knowledge, against the threat of premature death posed by the extractive economy.

Hauntology
Mining
architecture theory
multimedia
Brazil

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Student theses

master thesis

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