MArch Thesis
A Speculative Archipelago
Somewhere between the plausible and the surreal, "A Speculative Archipelago" exploits the drawing as an artifact of exploration. Situated within a pervasive urbanism, this thesis identifies an eventual archipelago in Toronto’s constructed port lands as grounds for invention in the future megacity. "A Speculative Archipelago" imagines a reassembly of the surreal through tectonic yet unexpected forms of representation based on fragmented narratives — permanent temporality, precarious stability, ordered chaos, empty pleasure, and bounded endlessness. Through the staging of uncertainty, this thesis questions how the normalization of the extraordinary might be resisted, and how the drawing can be reclaimed as space for speculating on the possibilities of the city.