A videographic essay by Michelle Arevalos Franco, Peichen Hao, and Yi Lun Yang. This video is produced for 'DES 3241 : Theories of Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology', a course taught by Pierre Bélanger at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the Fall 2013. The moon and Antarctica were equally unattainable. 'From the moon, the earth is seen in all its glory.' From Antarctica, we are allowed to 'peruse the changes we are wreaking on it.' 'No one clears things away in Antarctica.' Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last hut is as it was, except now a relic of the English heritage. It is estimated that Captain Scott’s bones and deep-frozen corpse will emerge inside a calving iceberg in 120 years; his route to sea thousands of miles of glacial drift. But the people make and remake. Snow is melted for water; ice is packed for runways; camps are choreographed to the wind. As the seasons progress, ships sidle in where planes once touched down. The noonday moon arrives and the people leave. The camps wait though, boxed and bermed, for the return of the mammals and the sun’s light, for the next year. As they are wont to do, things have been scientifically improved. Shackleton’s crew of men, after the three-month winter waiting for their stranded boat to be released from the ice, instead watched as it was crushed to bits by the pressures on the shifting floes. Nowadays, there are ice-breakers, ice-piers, cloaked imperial might and brazen technological glory, but still, no permanent solutions for the vagaries of the sky. Antarctica appeared just as science turned to the study of invisible forces, of time beyond human understanding: magnetism, electricity, evolution, geophysics. It was pure, uninhabited. It is at peace, it is a shining success of international harmony. This was crafted from the debris of colonial control, created for the development of technological might. There are no wars, no murders. 'The heroes have gone and are replaced by scientists, a wonderfully international crew of investigators intent no longer on racing each other to the pole or on naming bits of unnamed land, but on unraveling the remaining geophysical mysteries of the earth.' The delicate coalition of rejection—no soldiers, no miners, no property—leaves the continent as object of desire, of study. To know is to own, to probe is to keep. Sources: We are heavily indebted to Paul Shepheard, for ‘Hope’, in The Cultivated Wilderness, Or, What Is Landscape? Chicago, IL: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1997. Data from: The U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center, http://www.usap-data.org/ Antarctic Digital Database, http://www.add.scar.org/ Australian Antarctic Data Centre, http://data.aad.gov.au/ NASA Visible Earth, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ U.S. Energy Information Administration, http://www.eia.gov/countries Selected bibliography: “Antarctica.” The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ay.html Blaisdell, George, and CPT Christina Shelton. "Ship Offload Infrastructure in McMurdo Station, Antarctica." Collis, Christy, and Quentin Stevens. "Cold colonies: Antarctic Spatialities at Mawson and McMurdo stations." Cultural Geographies 14.2 (2007): 234-254. Dastidar, Prabir G., and Olle Persson. "Mapping the global structure of Antarctic research vis-à-vis Antarctic Treaty System." Current Science 89.9 (2005): 1552-1560. Heim, Barbara Ellen. "Exploring the Last Frontiers for Mineral Resources: A Comparison of International Law Regarding the Deep Seabed, Outer Space, and Antarctica." Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 23 (1990): 819. Herber, Bernard P. "Mining or World Park-A Politico-Economic Analysis of Alternative Land Use Regimes in Antarctica." Nat. Resources J. 31 (1991): 839. Joyner, Christopher C. "The Exclusive Economic Zone and Antarctica." Va. J. Int'l L. 21 (1980): 691. Mellor, Malcolm, and Charles Swithinbank. Airfields on Antarctic glacier ice. No. CRREL-89-21. Cold Regions and Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH, 1989. Nandan, S.N. “The Exclusive Economic Zone: A Historical Perspective.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. http://www.fao.org/docrep/s5280t/s5280t0p.htm Swithinbank, Charles. "Airborne tourism in the Antarctic." Polar Record 29.169 (1993): 103-110.

A videographic essay by Michelle Arevalos Franco, Peichen Hao, and Yi Lun Yang. This video is produced for 'DES 3241 : Theories of Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology', a course taught by Pierre Bélanger at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the Fall 2013. The moon and Antarctica were equally unattainable. 'From the moon, the earth is seen in all its glory.' From Antarctica, we are allowed to 'peruse the changes we are wreaking on it.' 'No one clears things away in Antarctica.' Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last hut is as it was, except now a relic of the English heritage. It is estimated that Captain Scott’s bones and deep-frozen corpse will emerge inside a calving iceberg in 120 years; his route to sea thousands of miles of glacial drift. But the people make and remake. Snow is melted for water; ice is packed for runways; camps are choreographed to the wind. As the seasons progress, ships sidle in where planes once touched down. The noonday moon arrives and the people leave. The camps wait though, boxed and bermed, for the return of the mammals and the sun’s light, for the next year. As they are wont to do, things have been scientifically improved. Shackleton’s crew of men, after the three-month winter waiting for their stranded boat to be released from the ice, instead watched as it was crushed to bits by the pressures on the shifting floes. Nowadays, there are ice-breakers, ice-piers, cloaked imperial might and brazen technological glory, but still, no permanent solutions for the vagaries of the sky. Antarctica appeared just as science turned to the study of invisible forces, of time beyond human understanding: magnetism, electricity, evolution, geophysics. It was pure, uninhabited. It is at peace, it is a shining success of international harmony. This was crafted from the debris of colonial control, created for the development of technological might. There are no wars, no murders. 'The heroes have gone and are replaced by scientists, a wonderfully international crew of investigators intent no longer on racing each other to the pole or on naming bits of unnamed land, but on unraveling the remaining geophysical mysteries of the earth.' The delicate coalition of rejection—no soldiers, no miners, no property—leaves the continent as object of desire, of study. To know is to own, to probe is to keep. Sources: We are heavily indebted to Paul Shepheard, for ‘Hope’, in The Cultivated Wilderness, Or, What Is Landscape? Chicago, IL: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1997. Data from: The U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center, http://www.usap-data.org/ Antarctic Digital Database, http://www.add.scar.org/ Australian Antarctic Data Centre, http://data.aad.gov.au/ NASA Visible Earth, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ U.S. Energy Information Administration, http://www.eia.gov/countries Selected bibliography: “Antarctica.” The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ay.html Blaisdell, George, and CPT Christina Shelton. "Ship Offload Infrastructure in McMurdo Station, Antarctica." Collis, Christy, and Quentin Stevens. "Cold colonies: Antarctic Spatialities at Mawson and McMurdo stations." Cultural Geographies 14.2 (2007): 234-254. Dastidar, Prabir G., and Olle Persson. "Mapping the global structure of Antarctic research vis-à-vis Antarctic Treaty System." Current Science 89.9 (2005): 1552-1560. Heim, Barbara Ellen. "Exploring the Last Frontiers for Mineral Resources: A Comparison of International Law Regarding the Deep Seabed, Outer Space, and Antarctica." Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 23 (1990): 819. Herber, Bernard P. "Mining or World Park-A Politico-Economic Analysis of Alternative Land Use Regimes in Antarctica." Nat. Resources J. 31 (1991): 839. Joyner, Christopher C. "The Exclusive Economic Zone and Antarctica." Va. J. Int'l L. 21 (1980): 691. Mellor, Malcolm, and Charles Swithinbank. Airfields on Antarctic glacier ice. No. CRREL-89-21. Cold Regions and Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH, 1989. Nandan, S.N. “The Exclusive Economic Zone: A Historical Perspective.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. http://www.fao.org/docrep/s5280t/s5280t0p.htm Swithinbank, Charles. "Airborne tourism in the Antarctic." Polar Record 29.169 (1993): 103-110.

A videographic essay by Michelle Arevalos Franco, Peichen Hao, and Yi Lun Yang. This video is produced for 'DES 3241 : Theories of Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology', a course taught by Pierre Bélanger at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the Fall 2013. The moon and Antarctica were equally unattainable. 'From the moon, the earth is seen in all its glory.' From Antarctica, we are allowed to 'peruse the changes we are wreaking on it.' 'No one clears things away in Antarctica.' Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last hut is as it was, except now a relic of the English heritage. It is estimated that Captain Scott’s bones and deep-frozen corpse will emerge inside a calving iceberg in 120 years; his route to sea thousands of miles of glacial drift. But the people make and remake. Snow is melted for water; ice is packed for runways; camps are choreographed to the wind. As the seasons progress, ships sidle in where planes once touched down. The noonday moon arrives and the people leave. The camps wait though, boxed and bermed, for the return of the mammals and the sun’s light, for the next year. As they are wont to do, things have been scientifically improved. Shackleton’s crew of men, after the three-month winter waiting for their stranded boat to be released from the ice, instead watched as it was crushed to bits by the pressures on the shifting floes. Nowadays, there are ice-breakers, ice-piers, cloaked imperial might and brazen technological glory, but still, no permanent solutions for the vagaries of the sky. Antarctica appeared just as science turned to the study of invisible forces, of time beyond human understanding: magnetism, electricity, evolution, geophysics. It was pure, uninhabited. It is at peace, it is a shining success of international harmony. This was crafted from the debris of colonial control, created for the development of technological might. There are no wars, no murders. 'The heroes have gone and are replaced by scientists, a wonderfully international crew of investigators intent no longer on racing each other to the pole or on naming bits of unnamed land, but on unraveling the remaining geophysical mysteries of the earth.' The delicate coalition of rejection—no soldiers, no miners, no property—leaves the continent as object of desire, of study. To know is to own, to probe is to keep. Sources: We are heavily indebted to Paul Shepheard, for ‘Hope’, in The Cultivated Wilderness, Or, What Is Landscape? Chicago, IL: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1997. Data from: The U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center, http://www.usap-data.org/ Antarctic Digital Database, http://www.add.scar.org/ Australian Antarctic Data Centre, http://data.aad.gov.au/ NASA Visible Earth, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ U.S. Energy Information Administration, http://www.eia.gov/countries Selected bibliography: “Antarctica.” The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ay.html Blaisdell, George, and CPT Christina Shelton. "Ship Offload Infrastructure in McMurdo Station, Antarctica." Collis, Christy, and Quentin Stevens. "Cold colonies: Antarctic Spatialities at Mawson and McMurdo stations." Cultural Geographies 14.2 (2007): 234-254. Dastidar, Prabir G., and Olle Persson. "Mapping the global structure of Antarctic research vis-à-vis Antarctic Treaty System." Current Science 89.9 (2005): 1552-1560. Heim, Barbara Ellen. "Exploring the Last Frontiers for Mineral Resources: A Comparison of International Law Regarding the Deep Seabed, Outer Space, and Antarctica." Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 23 (1990): 819. Herber, Bernard P. "Mining or World Park-A Politico-Economic Analysis of Alternative Land Use Regimes in Antarctica." Nat. Resources J. 31 (1991): 839. Joyner, Christopher C. "The Exclusive Economic Zone and Antarctica." Va. J. Int'l L. 21 (1980): 691. Mellor, Malcolm, and Charles Swithinbank. Airfields on Antarctic glacier ice. No. CRREL-89-21. Cold Regions and Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH, 1989. Nandan, S.N. “The Exclusive Economic Zone: A Historical Perspective.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. http://www.fao.org/docrep/s5280t/s5280t0p.htm Swithinbank, Charles. "Airborne tourism in the Antarctic." Polar Record 29.169 (1993): 103-110.

A videographic essay by Michelle Arevalos Franco, Peichen Hao, and Yi Lun Yang. This video is produced for 'DES 3241 : Theories of Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology', a course taught by Pierre Bélanger at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the Fall 2013. The moon and Antarctica were equally unattainable. 'From the moon, the earth is seen in all its glory.' From Antarctica, we are allowed to 'peruse the changes we are wreaking on it.' 'No one clears things away in Antarctica.' Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last hut is as it was, except now a relic of the English heritage. It is estimated that Captain Scott’s bones and deep-frozen corpse will emerge inside a calving iceberg in 120 years; his route to sea thousands of miles of glacial drift. But the people make and remake. Snow is melted for water; ice is packed for runways; camps are choreographed to the wind. As the seasons progress, ships sidle in where planes once touched down. The noonday moon arrives and the people leave. The camps wait though, boxed and bermed, for the return of the mammals and the sun’s light, for the next year. As they are wont to do, things have been scientifically improved. Shackleton’s crew of men, after the three-month winter waiting for their stranded boat to be released from the ice, instead watched as it was crushed to bits by the pressures on the shifting floes. Nowadays, there are ice-breakers, ice-piers, cloaked imperial might and brazen technological glory, but still, no permanent solutions for the vagaries of the sky. Antarctica appeared just as science turned to the study of invisible forces, of time beyond human understanding: magnetism, electricity, evolution, geophysics. It was pure, uninhabited. It is at peace, it is a shining success of international harmony. This was crafted from the debris of colonial control, created for the development of technological might. There are no wars, no murders. 'The heroes have gone and are replaced by scientists, a wonderfully international crew of investigators intent no longer on racing each other to the pole or on naming bits of unnamed land, but on unraveling the remaining geophysical mysteries of the earth.' The delicate coalition of rejection—no soldiers, no miners, no property—leaves the continent as object of desire, of study. To know is to own, to probe is to keep. Sources: We are heavily indebted to Paul Shepheard, for ‘Hope’, in The Cultivated Wilderness, Or, What Is Landscape? Chicago, IL: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1997. Data from: The U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center, http://www.usap-data.org/ Antarctic Digital Database, http://www.add.scar.org/ Australian Antarctic Data Centre, http://data.aad.gov.au/ NASA Visible Earth, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ U.S. Energy Information Administration, http://www.eia.gov/countries Selected bibliography: “Antarctica.” The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ay.html Blaisdell, George, and CPT Christina Shelton. "Ship Offload Infrastructure in McMurdo Station, Antarctica." Collis, Christy, and Quentin Stevens. "Cold colonies: Antarctic Spatialities at Mawson and McMurdo stations." Cultural Geographies 14.2 (2007): 234-254. Dastidar, Prabir G., and Olle Persson. "Mapping the global structure of Antarctic research vis-à-vis Antarctic Treaty System." Current Science 89.9 (2005): 1552-1560. Heim, Barbara Ellen. "Exploring the Last Frontiers for Mineral Resources: A Comparison of International Law Regarding the Deep Seabed, Outer Space, and Antarctica." Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 23 (1990): 819. Herber, Bernard P. "Mining or World Park-A Politico-Economic Analysis of Alternative Land Use Regimes in Antarctica." Nat. Resources J. 31 (1991): 839. Joyner, Christopher C. "The Exclusive Economic Zone and Antarctica." Va. J. Int'l L. 21 (1980): 691. Mellor, Malcolm, and Charles Swithinbank. Airfields on Antarctic glacier ice. No. CRREL-89-21. Cold Regions and Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH, 1989. Nandan, S.N. “The Exclusive Economic Zone: A Historical Perspective.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. http://www.fao.org/docrep/s5280t/s5280t0p.htm Swithinbank, Charles. "Airborne tourism in the Antarctic." Polar Record 29.169 (1993): 103-110.

A videographic essay by Michelle Arevalos Franco, Peichen Hao, and Yi Lun Yang. This video is produced for 'DES 3241 : Theories of Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology', a course taught by Pierre Bélanger at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the Fall 2013. The moon and Antarctica were equally unattainable. 'From the moon, the earth is seen in all its glory.' From Antarctica, we are allowed to 'peruse the changes we are wreaking on it.' 'No one clears things away in Antarctica.' Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last hut is as it was, except now a relic of the English heritage. It is estimated that Captain Scott’s bones and deep-frozen corpse will emerge inside a calving iceberg in 120 years; his route to sea thousands of miles of glacial drift. But the people make and remake. Snow is melted for water; ice is packed for runways; camps are choreographed to the wind. As the seasons progress, ships sidle in where planes once touched down. The noonday moon arrives and the people leave. The camps wait though, boxed and bermed, for the return of the mammals and the sun’s light, for the next year. As they are wont to do, things have been scientifically improved. Shackleton’s crew of men, after the three-month winter waiting for their stranded boat to be released from the ice, instead watched as it was crushed to bits by the pressures on the shifting floes. Nowadays, there are ice-breakers, ice-piers, cloaked imperial might and brazen technological glory, but still, no permanent solutions for the vagaries of the sky. Antarctica appeared just as science turned to the study of invisible forces, of time beyond human understanding: magnetism, electricity, evolution, geophysics. It was pure, uninhabited. It is at peace, it is a shining success of international harmony. This was crafted from the debris of colonial control, created for the development of technological might. There are no wars, no murders. 'The heroes have gone and are replaced by scientists, a wonderfully international crew of investigators intent no longer on racing each other to the pole or on naming bits of unnamed land, but on unraveling the remaining geophysical mysteries of the earth.' The delicate coalition of rejection—no soldiers, no miners, no property—leaves the continent as object of desire, of study. To know is to own, to probe is to keep. Sources: We are heavily indebted to Paul Shepheard, for ‘Hope’, in The Cultivated Wilderness, Or, What Is Landscape? Chicago, IL: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1997. Data from: The U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center, http://www.usap-data.org/ Antarctic Digital Database, http://www.add.scar.org/ Australian Antarctic Data Centre, http://data.aad.gov.au/ NASA Visible Earth, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ U.S. Energy Information Administration, http://www.eia.gov/countries Selected bibliography: “Antarctica.” The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ay.html Blaisdell, George, and CPT Christina Shelton. "Ship Offload Infrastructure in McMurdo Station, Antarctica." Collis, Christy, and Quentin Stevens. "Cold colonies: Antarctic Spatialities at Mawson and McMurdo stations." Cultural Geographies 14.2 (2007): 234-254. Dastidar, Prabir G., and Olle Persson. "Mapping the global structure of Antarctic research vis-à-vis Antarctic Treaty System." Current Science 89.9 (2005): 1552-1560. Heim, Barbara Ellen. "Exploring the Last Frontiers for Mineral Resources: A Comparison of International Law Regarding the Deep Seabed, Outer Space, and Antarctica." Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 23 (1990): 819. Herber, Bernard P. "Mining or World Park-A Politico-Economic Analysis of Alternative Land Use Regimes in Antarctica." Nat. Resources J. 31 (1991): 839. Joyner, Christopher C. "The Exclusive Economic Zone and Antarctica." Va. J. Int'l L. 21 (1980): 691. Mellor, Malcolm, and Charles Swithinbank. Airfields on Antarctic glacier ice. No. CRREL-89-21. Cold Regions and Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH, 1989. Nandan, S.N. “The Exclusive Economic Zone: A Historical Perspective.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. http://www.fao.org/docrep/s5280t/s5280t0p.htm Swithinbank, Charles. "Airborne tourism in the Antarctic." Polar Record 29.169 (1993): 103-110.