LAUREL PODLICH
Spring and Fall 2016
THESIS RESEARCH PROJECT
Throughout my undergraduate education I continued to take literature courses and received a minor degree in English Literature. For my thesis, I chose to explore the connection between architecture and literature. I researched the imagination, space, place, and the creation of literary worlds. I used Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy as my literary world and explored the spaces and places within the novels and how they influence the characters and story. During the project portion of my thesis I generated a series of video presentations showing my exploration and analysis of the creation of space through literature. For the videos I used quotes from the trilogy about five places. The quotes come from different characters in different times of the story. This piece by piece accumulation of auditory and visual information builds to form a complete sense of the places.
ARCHITECTURE AND LITERATURE
an exploration into the creation of space
People use their imagination to experience real-life situations in fictional settings. These settings are the product of a person's own experiences being melded to a particular imaginary scenario. In the realm of literature these imaginary settings are influenced by the design f an author. - Please click the link for the full text at my issuu.com page. Thank you.
an exploration into the creation of space
VIDEO SERIES
I created five separate video compilations. For my presentation, I played the five videos on five screens. The videos were played in sync with each other so that the video went from screen to screen throughout the presentation. Each screen represented one of the places I focused on for my research and presentation work.  Here is the link for my combined video for playing on one screen.