Mark
Latinx communities / “satellites” situated throughout Grant County surrounding the town of Ulysses. Latinx communities / “satellites” situated throughout Grant County surrounding Ulysses. These communities exist as clusters on subdivided family farms. Land holding types, Grant County. S/M/XL Growth Plan. Scale: Property. The Kansas model for generational family homestead ownership shifts from singular to plural. Growth Plan. Scale: Next door neighbor. Neighborhood structure shifts from gridded archipelago to topographic fabric. Growth Plan. Scale: Region. The Jeffersonian Grid, designed for private ownership of the commons, dissolves beneath the effects of the ULG.





Kansas Eulogy


Ulysses Land Group / 2018
done with Professors Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo + Mecky Ruess

ULG charts a path to a post-grid Ulysses, Kansas. Before ULG, the systemic shift occurring in Ulysses is away from a grid of small farms, towards a scaled-up grid of large farms. ULG is designed to intercept this transformation, and to leverage land-holding structures to support a future for farmers that exceeds the grid.
Mark