Julæ Lynn-Tanning

MLA Landscape Architecture

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Learning From What Remains: Meditations on Sustainability

What remains when a person or material assemblage is stripped of its component parts?

What is left is the remainder, an irreductible core.

Purely cerebral learning can be fleeting. A hybrid approach of cerebral and visceral, “perverse” learning grounded in a familial understanding of the remainder yields a more resilient pedagogy that endures long after leaving the site of formal education.

This research was completed under the aegis of the 2025/26 Sustainability Design Lab and features the subject of making with paper discards as the primary mode of interrogation.

Via a collection of essays, a literature review, as well as making and teaching with the remainder, this thesis aims to spark curiosity, sustain interest in learning about learning and propose a sustainable pedagogical approach grounded in that which remains.

Image of student laying chord on to couched paper pulp. Set in the landscape architecture studio at Weybosset St.

Image of paper-making workshop process.
2026

Student laying fibre on paper to strengthen structure.

Image of handmade paper with visible fragments. Pulp-painting reads "WHY".

Untitled, "WHY"
2026
Assorted paper pulp discard, jute discard

Image of paper-experiment.

Image of zine with humorous illustrated description of paper-making pedagogy process.

Zine for paper-making workshops.
2026

Representational painting with warm tones of a young lady with bright thoughtful eyes, long brown hair and a white jumper with a flower depicted.

Painting of Mary
2026
pigment on stretched paper

Painting for me is a way use a slow observational process to build deeper relationships with my friends and collegues. The patches of colour relate with each other to construct a patchwork-truth—the whole is beside the sum of its parts.