![From left] Harlan Cleveland, Paul Ehrlich, and George Mitchell at the Third Woodlands Conference, 1979. Schmandt, v.](https://d33dlv5jzgs7pp.cloudfront.net/api/file/jgmEsR1zToCmPLEZ2gQq/convert?fit=max&format=jpg&h=&quality=95&w=408&compress=true&fit=max)
Student Work
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Title
The Department of Loops
Project Description
Loops are a phenomenon already pervasive throughout and beyond the city, working at various scales. The Department of Loops is less about a top-down design approach, where a superstructure of alien urbanity is overlain on a site, and more about the revelation of extant loops through distributed architectural intervention. Loops become democratic and purposefully anti-hierarchical. Nodes in the circuit feed off one another, benefitting from connections rather than proximity to a single center, to understand the City through play, engagement, estrangement and association—as a story infinitely reread and continuously misunderstood.