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The Flow and The Flood

Author: Helena Sihong Zhu

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When you are in a grad school hearing people talk  about ontology,  like "a river that flows back onto itself ",  I always go, what the heck did he mean by that? Does he even know what he is talking about? 

Well, it took time, the time to have the chance to work on the site I chose in order to understand; And thank you, Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur. 
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" A river that flows back onto itself ” actually refers to the hydrologic cycle. It envelops the Earth in wetness. This wetness does not flow as water does; it holds, soaks, blows, seeps, osmotes, and transpires;The sea is very wet, the desert less so. That is to say, there is no line between land and water, only a coast between rain and tide; Mumbai has the major flood,  how to prevent flood?  You might say by building an embarkment, a levee, a spillway, a jetty, a revetment, a cutoff,  or any geological segments; but how to even separate land from water, especially during a summer monsoon?  What's the wetness in the ephemeral and the temporary.  Before structuring a river by construction, before imaging a river by representation lies distinguishing a river. And then we can talk about a mound on an open field, exposed to the flows and floods of a river. A mound, thus a habitation. Design, rather, crafts a literacy, constitutes the ground of habitation.
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