︎︎︎ studio home
case studies ︎︎︎

For this project, students researched, mapped, and documented Boeing’s geopolitical and geographic networks and spatial infrastructures within Seattle and beyond, with an emphasis on its productions of waste materials and/or waste sites, and interactions between human and more-than-human systems. Research was conducted in a case study format to visually describe regional (and/or national and/or international) networks through mapping, cataloging, and diagramming their influences, histories, relations, economies, and time-based processes at multiple scales. These scales highlighted waste materials and landscapes, encompassed time, geospatial, and site-based scales, and the materials involved and/or being manipulated by the system, which revealed the invisible geographic networks supporting the production of Boeing’s geopolitical power. All projects included an emphasis on actors/influencers, relationships, ecological, hydrological, operative, performative, and logistical conditions of the networked waste systems. The purpose of the project was to explore how Boeing’s relational waste legacies and geopolitical networks were supported by multiple human and more-than-human systems at local, regional, national, and even global scales. The research and graphic approaches were used as the basis for a speculative design project.