Manic 5 at Expo 67: Territorial Megastructure or the Connection of Three Spaces
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Abstract
Manic 5 is the largest multiple-arch and buttress dam in the world. It is part of the Manicouagan-Outardes Complex that marked the emergence of a Québécois expertise in hydroelectric production and transportation. Begun in 1959 and completed in 1968, the iconic dam is located on the Manicouagan River in the Côte-Nord region. In the summer of 1967, during the last stages of Manic 5’s construction, three cameras captured the daily activity of construction, from 10am to 10pm. The live footage was edited, transmitted and projected in full color in the Québec Industries pavilion on the grounds of Expo 67, Montréal’s world’s fair celebrating the centennial of Canada. \nDrawing on multiple archival resources such as printed and filmic promotional documents of the dam, photographs, architectural drawings of the pavilion, and newspaper articles, this research departs from a photomontage representing the spectacle of Manic 5 at Expo 67 and aims to uncover its history while contextualizing it into the history of twentieth-century architecture. I consider this event and its underlying material presence as a “territorial megastructure,” based on the architectural concept of the megastructure developed during the 1960s and in which Montréal had a prominent role, mainly through its hosting of Expo 67. Manic 5, a space of production, and Expo 67, a space of consumption, can each be considered a megastructure in and of itself, although they will here be analysed in relation to their physical and virtual connection over a territory covering more than 800 kilometres, the space of transmission
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".