Graduate Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Structural analysis at scale: Computational modeling of embodied carbon in complex floor layouts 

      Hirt, Natasha K. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      To meet the needs of growing populations, rates of new construction are increasing at a record pace worldwide. The built environment, already one of the single largest contributors to global CO₂e emissions, will become a ...

    • Inscrutability: An Epistemological Experiment 

      Huang, Brian Hudson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      Through four different projects, this thesis explores the idea of dimensions of representation, a concept introduced by 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault in his book The Order of Things. Foucault argues that ...

    • Koalisi Lahan–Gambut: Assembling Peat–Land Futures in Kalimantan 

      El Haq, Haidar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      Throughout Indonesia’s colonial and postcolonial histories, the peatlands of Kalimantan have been not only politically contested spaces but also sites of ontological struggle. From transmigrasi programs to Suharto’s Mega-Rice ...