This was a student project by Alexandra Lemke for Kristi Cheramie's course LARCH 4999H in Spring 2018.
The [in]visible Road reconceives of the landscape as a space of state-wide protest, constructing the otherwise unseen routes of carceral surveillance and bodily control, carving an obtrusively direct path between individual detention facilities, and visualizing deportation space as less remote, and more intimately involved in the daily lives of US citizens and neighbors than expected. The massiveness of the polemical infrastructural proposal is a critique on current detainee management strategies - which inappropriately rely on prison infrastructure, and frequent facility transfers over significant distances. Acknowledging the numerous spaces which a detainee may experience while in detention, the student engages Deportation space as a construct of both individual sites of detention and the liminal spaces between – positioning the landscape architect in a critical role as political advocate.
