Carol Rifelj Lecture Series - Recycling the Apocalypse: Resurrection, Adaption, and Sacred Fragments on Medieval Iceland
Robyn Barrow, History of Art & Architecture
Recycling the Apocalypse: Resurrection, Adaption, and Sacred Fragments on Medieval Iceland
On medieval Iceland, which visitors conceptualized as the very mouth of hell, drastic environmental change and resource scarcity was not a sign of apocalypse, but a daily lived experience. The island is subject to extreme weather and geothermal activity that renders any material production, particularly architecture, deeply unstable.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103