John May
Speculative architectures of connection, network, storage, and labor that materialize our encounters with digital communication infrastructure. Set within the fictional context of Mars, the project shifts site, scale, and logic to examine the spatial implications of planetary data systems. Through architectural narrative, it draws out the structures and contradictions embedded in the systems that organize contemporary life.
In the Post-Anthropocene, automation, computation, and data processing have become governing forces, mediating how the world is sensed, understood, and acted upon. At the core of this shift is digital communication: the process that enables the circulation of data, structuring how information is transmitted, stored, and exchanged at planetary scales. As data becomes a critical resource, its movement determines systems of access, control, and power — shaping both digital and physiical territories through an intricate, often invisible network of infrastructures.
Independent Thesis | 2025 Spring
