DR. JOHN ARNOLD
(Co-Project Director)

The postindustrial landscape demonstrates the profound impacts of industrialization, today presenting a complex mosaic of uses and re-uses—many of which are informal, vernacular, and vital components of the living, descendant, landscape. My dissertation work with the Keweenaw Time Traveler is an investigation of vernacular preservation, in particular the role that common, ongoing usage plays in driving material perseverance of postindustrial properties.