Dana Hogstedt • Project Tour

The development of the Fens ParkÌs neighborhood was induced (stimulated) by the act of many large institutions choosing to locate in this then remote area of Boston, giving them the role of land makers and city builders by influencing the design of the Fens Park and perhaps more importantly, serving as magnets for other institutions and businesses which led to the eventual creation of residential neighborhoods in this area.
I attempted to manifest this idea of Boston constructing itself both physically and socially thorough intentional acts in my model in which the fixed elements represent the institutions and the physical infrastructures (built as door pulls and pine slats) and the material in between represents the fluctuating social and cultural matter that flows around and between these borders, which is all "floating" above the pre-construction image of the equally fluctuating ambiguous marshland of Boston primordial.