Fabricating Vulnerability

Animation and Design Research

Harvard GSD, Master's Thesis (Jimmy Pan)

What if retreat was not an option? Every opportunity for retreat is inexorably tethered to the enterprise of boundary making, an action that separates regions regarded as secure from those that are considered vulnerable. The frontiers of ‘managed retreat’, promising stability and an escape from peril, preserve cycles of evacuation and migration from areas deemed ‘unsafe’ and perpetuates the drawing of perimeters of threat.