Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Laura Del Pino Noriega
Can New Jersey become an example of ecological repair for other polluted regions in the world? Healing starts with learning about the damage and the hidden potential. What we have and what we can do. However, in New Jersey, the diverse landscape is still an unstudied territory for many students despite it being their home. Our second-year class started as a speculative seminar where we aimed to uncover the hidden years of pollution and contamination that have shaped the topography and the waterways of New Jersey and the future methods of repair. Drawing inspiration from the multi-layered drawings of the Philadelphia watershed created by Ian McHarg and his students, our group turned their attention to the heavily infrastructural and manufacturing riversides and meadowlands of New Jersey and created a collection of large format combined maps of the past, present, and future of these “hybrid natures”. They represented human and animal ecosystems, pollution plumes and industrial landscapes, flood risks, and possible futures. The resulting “recollection maps” showed the underlying risks of lingering pollution and chemical waste, and at the same time, the hope and potential for change through sequential interventions.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.113.62
Volume Editors
Sara Jensen Carr & Rubén García Rubio
ISBN
978-1-944214-48-7
