The Labyrinth: A Resuscitation of A Dead Topography

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On-site Closing reception: Friday, June 8th, 7 - 11pm.

(Located adjacent to Robert Irwin's Flying V's, between Faculty Club and Student Health)

Featuring DJ's Rosebomb, Markolicious, Discos Invisibles, Minotaur, Jose Luis & El Jefe, performance, food & drink.

The Labyrinth's walls and passages manipulate and amplify the phenomenas of light, shadow, sound and space resonating within UCSD's man-made eucalyptus landscape. The intervention injects a sense of play and wonder to a physical landscape devoid of ecological diversity and an institution devoid of social interaction.

Much of UCSD's landscape and architecture are composed of vacant antiseptic spaces that result in a fractured, dysfunctional social body. The Labyrinth resuscitates and defines this specific space with a series of labyrinthine passages woven through the grove’s grid. It co-opts and adapts to this underlying blueprint and underscores the inherent contradictions present at its core: the creation of a man-made space that mimics one developed over centuries and the questionable failure to include diversity in the structural, landscape and social design of UCSD.

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topography (tə-pŏg'rə-fē) –noun, plural -phies.

The three-dimensional arrangement of physical attributes (such as shape, height, and depth) of a land surface in a place or region. Physical features that make up the topography of an area include mountains, valleys, plains, and bodies of water. Human-made features such as roads, railroads, and landfills are also often considered part of a region's topography. - American Heritage Science Dictionary

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Construction: The How

Aftermath: The Ensuing Days

original concept page: Eucalyptus Grove Resuscitation