Suburbigation: Suburban Navigation and Cultural Computation Racetrack Playa

The explorations of my project at racetrack playa involve speculative hypotheses about the functionality of Suburbia as a navigational interface. The processes of navigation subsequently include various forms of cultural computation that are defined by existing control structures. Edwin Hutchins' book, Cognition in the Wild, has provided a significant theoretical framework through which I aim to interpret Suburbia as a cultural space for computation and navigation. Suburbigation, in the physical realization of the project, uses the desert landscape of racetrack playa to foreground and denaturalize the ways in which Suburbia as a cultural interface mediates ways of ideological and physical navigation through both individual and social structures of cognition. .grace.hwa.