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Hogstedt • Mapping |
My fascination with the construction of land in Boston extended itself into
an interest in how the powerful institutions were also land makers and city
builders as they determined to build in this outlying area. These institutions,
such as the MFA, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Simmons College, Emmanuel College,
Harvard Medical and many others, served as magnets for many smaller institutions
and businesses who located in this neighborhood, as well as an entirely
new residential population in the never-ending quest for more housing in
the city of Boston.
This idea of Boston constructing itself both physically and socially through
intentional acts manifests itself in my model where the fixed pieces represent
the institutions (denoted by door knobs) and physical infrastructures (marked
by the pine slats) and the material in between represents the fluctuating
social and physical matter that flows around and between these borders.
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