The Lessons From Mangahao: Human Appropriation As A Design Tool

Infrastructural development incurs a heavy toll on the landscape. In times of abandonment the resultant treatment, neglect, and appropriative uses of such spaces can vary. Under select circumstances, the unsubscribed functions and structures provide a great potential to bolster the curious, and adventurous in spirit. These parameters and variables (if applied strategically) can unlock the observable act of appropriation; and furthermore inhabitation. Through means of performative fieldwork-driven research, these variables and factors can form the basis of design tools to activate these now abandoned infrastructural landscapes, namely the now abandoned State Highway 3, Te Apiti, The Manawatu Gorge