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Inland Empire after the Collapse of the Global Supply Chain2022 | Academic work
STU 1502: Desert Futures. Scenarios for a World of Extremes
Instructor: Malkit Shoshan
Team: Aakanksha Jain, Kian Hosseinnia, Liene Asahi Baptista
Inland Empire’s physical accessibility of this site to the global and national has situated the region as a significant node in the global supply chain.
The aim of this project is twofold. First, it imagines Redlands – an exemplary site in Inland Empire – to exit the global supply chain, which has reduced the site to a functional node in a more extensive complex systems of global extraction and capital accumulation.
Second, to imagine scenarios for this site to thrive while emerging out of the ruins of neoliberalism.
The first step is to provide a transition plan from a central node in the global supply chain to a local circular economy. The challenge is to disincentivize the region for warehouses, and the strengthening of labor rights.
The aim of this project is twofold. First, it imagines Redlands – an exemplary site in Inland Empire – to exit the global supply chain, which has reduced the site to a functional node in a more extensive complex systems of global extraction and capital accumulation.
Second, to imagine scenarios for this site to thrive while emerging out of the ruins of neoliberalism.
The first step is to provide a transition plan from a central node in the global supply chain to a local circular economy. The challenge is to disincentivize the region for warehouses, and the strengthening of labor rights.
