DISASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Tags: Data visualization, Research, GIS, Academic Work,
Group project
Location: United States
Time: one semester (FALL 2020 Advanced Studio V)
Critic: Laura Kurgan (Center for Spatial Research)
Reacting to Amazon’s exploitative business model, this project is a manual that guides Amazon workers to dismantle their warehouses and rebuild a community with the buildings’ components.
The story starts in amazon warehouses during covid. Regardless of the surging death toll in the U.S. Amazon refused to shut down its facilities or to acknowledge the full impact of COVID-19 on its workers; instead, it speeded up its operation, taking advantage of the economic desperation caused by COVID-19 to increase its market power and dominance.
The manual consists of four chapters. The first chapter explains why the workers should say no to Amazon. We use GIS tools to explain Amazon’s warehouse site selection strategy. By overlapping the warehouse locations with the Social Vulnerability Index, we select three types of counties and examine Amazon’s impact on them. The second chapter describes the components of a warehouse and the third chapter provides disassembly instructions. Lastly, we used the story of three counties to show how workers have rebuilt their communities after deconstructing their warehouses.
Softwares: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign
Tags: Data visualization, Research, GIS, Academic Work,
Group project
Location: United States
Time: one semester (FALL 2020 Advanced Studio V)
Critic: Laura Kurgan (Center for Spatial Research)
Reacting to Amazon’s exploitative business model, this project is a manual that guides Amazon workers to dismantle their warehouses and rebuild a community with the buildings’ components.
The story starts in amazon warehouses during covid. Regardless of the surging death toll in the U.S. Amazon refused to shut down its facilities or to acknowledge the full impact of COVID-19 on its workers; instead, it speeded up its operation, taking advantage of the economic desperation caused by COVID-19 to increase its market power and dominance.
The manual consists of four chapters. The first chapter explains why the workers should say no to Amazon. We use GIS tools to explain Amazon’s warehouse site selection strategy. By overlapping the warehouse locations with the Social Vulnerability Index, we select three types of counties and examine Amazon’s impact on them. The second chapter describes the components of a warehouse and the third chapter provides disassembly instructions. Lastly, we used the story of three counties to show how workers have rebuilt their communities after deconstructing their warehouses.
Softwares: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign
