Unfolding
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Abstract
The research and project evolved from the analysis of nomadic patterns of mobile groups original to the Almaty region of Kazakhstan prior to Soviet rule, which was then led to an investigation of nomadic metaphysics. The conclusion of this analysis suggests that aspects of mobility such as ephemerality and informality – long deemed as pathological threats to modern society– now need reconsideration and reinsertion within the sedentarist organization of our society and its physical spaces. In doing so, the needs of marginal mobile groups are acknowledged. This awareness guides the development of the project into the production of nomadic spaces up to the level of building design, guided by Deleuze’s theory of folds, proposing the replacement of alienating experiences of separate spaces by one where new spatial and social organizations introduce deeper levels of relation and interchange.