SCOPE is a multidisciplinary, student-led club working across majors to understand the built environment and the relationship between it and the people who inhabit it. Edition II of their annual zine, entitled Essence: Lost and Found — Anatomy of Change, explores how time and societal change impacts that relationship.
What becomes of the land a family home lived on after natural disaster destroys the house? What potential lives in a long-abandoned factory? How do we revive neglected structures without disrupting the surrounding community?
The design of this edition was inspired by the impermanence that even built structures experience in function and space. Each spread was made with the intentionality of trying to record a dream you start to forget as soon as you wake up.
There is a nostalgic quality to the zine, transporting you back to looking out the window of the car while your mom drives you to practice, tracing raindrops with your eyes as they're pulled down the side of the car to soak the ground.
The hope is to make the reader reflective on the history that lies all around and within them. Our memories exist in our minds, brought out by places and familiar sights. But those places haven't always been there, and what came before held meaning to another person in another time. Maybe this thought will inspire the reader to treasure the importance they assign the spaces around them, and wonder what part their story plays in the lives of these environments.
Zine Design by Lindsey Ryan
Articles and Work by individuals named
Divider Artwork and Endpapers by Will Ross
Cover Art by Abril Rodriguez