Towards Sentience™

Attuning the Los Angeles River's Fluvial Morphology

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Abstract
  • Case Studies
  • Site
  • Analyses
    • Soils Analyses
    • Vegetal Analyses
    • Proliferation Analyses
  • Prototyping
  • Experimentation
  • Proposal
  • Defense
  • Glossary
  • Book
  • Bibliography
  • Highlights
  • Acknowledgements
  • Press
  • About the Coder
component digital fabrication

component digital fabrication

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thesis buddy

thesis buddy

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Review 1

Review 1

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Review 2

Review 2

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Review 3

Review 3

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post thesis group photo with Thesis Coordinator, Gareth Doherty

post thesis group photo with Thesis Coordinator, Gareth Doherty

post-thesis celebration

post-thesis celebration

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Live section ultrasonic banner sensor
component digital fabrication
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thesis buddy
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Live surface test
Live contoured surface test
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Review 2
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Towards Sentience Test - Real-time monitoring and simulation
Review 3
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Towards Sentience, Arduino coding test
Towards Sentience, Sensor Test
Towards Sentience, on site test
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Towards Sentience, website test
Towards Sentience, pre-Thesis Defense
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post-thesis celebration
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Commencement Announcement of Harvard GSD MLA 2016 Thesis Prize Award

by Leif Estrada — Recipient of the 2015-2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the Faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture.  Defended May 12, 2016 in the partial fulfillment of the degrees: Master in Design Studies, with a concentration on Urbanism, Landscape and Ecology and Master in Landscape Architecture-Advanced Placement.

All material is © Leif Estrada, and Towards Sentience, 2015-2025 unless otherwise noted. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without expressed written permission from the author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Leif Estrada, and Towards Sentience with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Contact: leif.estrada@alumni.harvard.edu for more information.