Schaum, Troy2019-05-172019-05-172018-052018-04-20May 2018Lee, Stephanie. "Ring-A-Round O' Roses." (2018) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105653">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105653</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105653The production system of Kenyan floriculture is a complex web of biological, mechanical and socioeconomic relationships. The former British Colony accounts for one third of all flower sales in the European Union. However, as 90 percent of the farm operations are foreign owned, these flowers represent a capitalist process of neo-colonial exploitation. The shear scale of mechanized agro-production has shifted the identity of an individual farmer to a ‘factory worker’. As a response to these existing imbalances, this project proposes a two-fold management strategy: A series of iconic civic-centers form a ‘loose’ regional infrastructure for labor unions, while a prototype farm is developed for individual farm cooperatives. Integrated farm networks will work in synthesis to turn closed systems of exploitation to an open-system based on process and access. RRR’s objective is to explore architectural agency in large-scale agricultural sectors of the Global South.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Parasite ArchitecturePrototypeIndustrial AgricultureGreenhousesRegional PlanningKenyaFloricultureThesis2019-05-17