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# Project Description Local Variables: How Not to Build a Digital Fortre Daniel McCarthy Summary Final work Awards Nominated | Maison/0 Green Trail College Central Saint Martins Course M ARCH: Architecture Graduation year 2025 Emerging from Ireland’s Shannon Estuary – an influential site of economic firsts and regulatory innovation – this body of work reimagines the computational infrastructure governing contemporary society as slow, situated, and publicly accountable. Refusing the logic of constant uptime, the project proposes systems that adjust to environmental rhythms, shaped not by corporate protocol but by reciprocal, place-based structures informed by the ‘Brehon law’ – an early Irish model of relational governance. The work explores a world in which computer servers rest during slack tide, and their waste heat is redirected to support civic and productive uses nearby. Architectural forms open to their environment; computation becomes embedded, shared and visible. No longer sealed and abstract, computational infrastructure begins to respond. Not utopian, but contingent, this is a stack attuned to season, sediment, and sovereignty. Final work Share this project Emerging from Ireland’s Shannon Estuary – an influential site of economic firsts and regulatory innovation – this body of work reimagines the computational infrastructure governing contemporary society as slow, situated, and publicly accountable. Refusing the logic of constant... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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