Diversions: Minor Public Works of the Continental Divide

Harvard GSD

This option studio explores public works of water infrastructure—local and territorial, intimate and extensive—in the landscapes lying below the Continental Divide in Colorado. Over the course of the twentieth century, massive complexes of tunnels, pipes, and reservoirs ruptured regional geology for agriculture and urbanization, estranging ecosystems from atmospheric and ecological cycles. These mega-diversions are large in size but limited in scope. Against this context of altered regional…