The activists’ Shelter: Enabling activism through architecture
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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Master's Thesis
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The purpose of this Master’s Thesis
within the subject of Architecture is to
design and build a treehouse for climbing
climate activists who wish to stay in them
when carrying out blockades in forests as
an action to protest against deforestation.
The main finding from this thesis is that
designers can - by being intentional with
their actions, aware of design decisions
and by being conscious about what they
produce – angle what impact they have.
I have chosen to enable activism through
architecture because activists are at the
frontline in the war between society as
we know it, and a liveable planet in the
future.
There are three objectives to this thesis:
1. The act of designing this treehouse
is a way to showcase how the designer
can choose which impact her design will
have. In the case of this thesis, designing
a tool for activists to use.
2. Explore and challenge in writing
the role of the architect in the aspect
of climate action and activism. The
thesis itself should be: provocative,
empowering and informative both for the
architect and the activist.
3. The impact the design will have for the
environmental movement. The treehouse
should be: reproduceable, materials
should have minimal environmental
impact, shelter two people from weather,
wind and water cannons, be easy to set up
for two people, be able to move to new
locations (reusable), the design needs
to fit a variety of types and size of tree.
The design should enable smoother and
longer forest blockades.
The research methods used were a
combination of participatory observation
by, informal interviews and immersion
with climbing climate activist, and
literature research about the fields of
knowledge surrounding architecture and
activism, politics and climate, and lastly
researching by designing and building.
Presented in the form of a how-tohandbook
is the final design proposal, as
well as being built in scale 1:100 and 1:1.
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Activism, Architecture, Forestry, Treehouse, Treesit