American Wild: Digital Preservation for Changing Landscapes

Abstract

The National Park Service represents the nation's largest initiative in landscape conservation and preservation. As both a material and cultural construct, national parks are living memorials to a uniquely American wilderness narrative. In celebration of the National Park Service Centennial, American Wild is a speculative proposal for digital landscape preservation. The project generates civic pride by connecting the distinctive architecture of the Washington, DC Metro to the national parks. Using ultra–high-definition recordings, videos of each park are individually projection-mapped at full scale. The memorial creates a timeline of the National Park Service's 100-year history that advocates for its next centennial.