Flooded Mainframes

Flooded Mainframes envisions this post-drought, post-human landscape as both archaeological site and ecological artifact. Through a vibrant series of 3D renderings, speculative collages and intricate architectural diagrams, this capstone imagines the Puget Sound transformed into a submerged archive of technological ambition. Colorful cords twist through kelp beds, microchips are crusted with barnacles and layers of plastic waste drift through the current. The archaeologists’ discoveries—strange and unrecognizable—raise questions about memory, utility and the legacy of innovation. The project blurs the line between ruin and renewal, proposing that even in collapse, new hybrid ecosystems and meanings can emerge.