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Office of
FIELDS OF FIELDS
CORE STUDIO I | FALL 2021
JAVITS CENTER, MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
PROF THOMAS DE MONCHAUX, ADITI SHETYA
The thread that this imagined reality intertwined the Jacob Javits Center and the "end" of America's occupation of Afghanistan began with fields. The infinite of central rug motifs, the infinite of the Miesian space-frame, overlaid. The spectatorship of "the other" through early world fairs, with the Crystal Palace being the first convention center. With the end of America's occupation of Afghanistan, rather than the occupation that began with it, the world witnessed a new Afghan diaspora. As refugees arrive at the Jacob Javits Center in this proposal, the project interrogates ideas of spectatorship through conventions, refugee cities, and the overlooked parallels between the two.