Camps as a typology touches on the contradictory relationship of sanctuary- one about care and protection, the other about exclusivity and control.
They emerge as a response to crises, offering temporary solutions to exceptional conditions- providing temporary spatial relief without resolving underlying issues.
Our proposal begins to extrapolate the notions of camp by deterritorializing the sanctuary and defying the technocracy of railroads and summer camp organizations. In turn creating a scout camp that exists in a constant state of flux, reliant on abandoned rail tracks yet connecting the whole of the Hudson Valley. The proposal, therefore, aims to hypothesize on the transformation of the scout camp organization as it now has access to existing and uncharted resources.
It therefore emerges in the “in-betweens” of the hudson valley’s typical destinations. Interacting with locals yet existing and deploying itself in the true wilderness of the landscapes in between privatized lands, urban clusters, exclusive retreats, sites of social and economic tensions, and normally inaccessible pursuits of knowledge.
