The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure, or IIRSA, is a continental multilateral mechanism financing connectivity through some of the most remote areas of Latin America. "Myths" of conservation, such as population and poverty driving deforestation or biodiversity as objective science, frequently couple global-regional models with the local specifics of place. Design here, through its physical and social agency, involves constructing partial perspectives that bridge global conservation (e.g., man-and-the-biosphere reserves) with paradoxes of the highly physical territories of conservation movements and remote agricultural frontiers. Entrenched in the methods and instruments of conservation and sustainability science, this project problematizes our stewardship of nature through tools of conservation across multiple disciplines and discourses.
- Course: Design Analytics: Visualizing nature, regions and discontinuities
Instructor: Ashley Scott Kelly. Postgraduate 2013-14, 2014-15. - Course: The South America Project: Protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon
Instructors: Ashley Scott Kelly and Adam Bobbette. Postgraduate 2012-13. - Paper: Kelly, A. S., & Pryor, M. R. (2013). Governing the road to China: Design, territory and data in the Peruvian Amazon. Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 1(6), 144-154.
- Exhibition: Kelly, A. S., & Pryor, M. R. (2013). Design for Conservation. Exhibited in South America Project: Works in Progress at the 14th International Buenos Aires Bienal of Architecture.
