181210 The Post-Migration, Imagined Identity

This semester has been a period of intense research into the issues of cultural adjacencies, immigration, assimilation and identity. This period of investigation has led to a conclusion about the real and the imagined cultural identity we project. Immigrants and diaspora groups, in their romanticized view of the homeland, form a new identity, loosely rooted in truth, which is unique to the post-migration experience. This expression of cultural fantasy and the imagined identity will be the focus of the architectural project that is developed over the next four months. The design will seek to answer the questions 'can we be emplaced by cultural identity? and how much does the post-migration, imagined identity actually relate to the homeland identity?