Manhattan : Island Territories vi : Harrison’s Workshop [II] Part 2 Project 2020 Rishabh Shah Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | UK Harrisson’s workshop (ii) enacts the unravelling of an architecture that addresses the inactivity and lack of responsibility towards issues of climate crisis coherent with the United Nations in the 21st century.Named ‘Pangaea’, the last supercontinent, the thesis offers a landscape of a multifaceted, critical and highly charged neighbour, housing ‘laboratories’ of change and a place of refuge beside the existing structures of the UN campus today. In this case, the term ‘laboratories’ refers to more than a scientific research room. Instead, it alludes to a testing ground for social and environmental concerns that lay dormant, such as the climate migrant crisis.Seen as a second pass to the construction of the UN Headquarters in 1952, Pangaea is a portion of the crust of the earth, elevated from its ground condition, creating a more secure surface for the UN project away from the volatile future swells of the east river. In a sense, it is an additional island to the city of islands. Seen together, architecture and politics enact a new scale of social, environmental and consequently political industry sustaining an intricate relationship between the United Nations, citizens of the world and world governments. Tutor(s) Adrian Hawker