Challenging Dichotomies: The Human Inside the Machine Part 2 Project 2024 Aliaa Abdelalim Kuwait University | Kuwait “Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had overreached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine”E. M. Forster, The Machine StopsIndustrialization gradually moved from craftsmanship, where humans were producers, to automated production, where humans became witnesses. This shift marginalized human involvement in the industrial process, making it generic and global, leaving people unaware of the process they formerly led.This thesis is a critique of the different dichotomies that have evolved from the human-machine relationship, proposing dichotomies to be seen as possibilities rather than drawbacks. It introduces an industrial typology in Kuwait, utilizing industries that have played a significant cultural role over time to allow the general public to visit, appreciate, and become one with the machine and observe the industrial process in a setting akin to a museum where humans and machines coexist. This thesis is an experiment that’s beyond Kuwait. It tests the ability of any industrial process to serve as a guide that manifests a human-machine interaction architecturally that is enjoyable, didactic, and productive. Tutor(s) Dalal Musaed Alsayer