Amplitude Modulation (2012)
Mixed Media
Amplitude Modulation seeks to engage with and expand the understanding of American industrial heritage while addressing the contemporary condition of resource extraction. Through various techniques, the project re-assembles the narrative of the southern coal towns of Appalachia, playing on inadvertent gaps and disjunctions within overlapping geologic, industrial, and cultural networks. The project contributes to an ecology of design practices that bridge scales from regional to local and apply friction to the current circumstances. Through research and an exploration of the operations, networks, and actors of southern Appalachia, Amplitude Modulation utilizes architecture as a method for tactical adjustment and the development of new strategies that question the outcomes of industrial progress.