Architecture & Design

Changing climate requires resilient ecological systems, human communities, and built environments.

Through participation in the Wright-Ingraham Institute’s Icelandic Field Stations program, this project will advance research at the intersection of science, the humanities, and landscape architecture.

Deep and thick sections of landscape representation make materials, ecology, and cultural histories visible.

Yolŋu cultural practitioner and activist Mayatili Marika will deliver the W. Wanambi Distinguished Lecture in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on February 3, 2024.

The Aegean islands are experiencing the dramatic effects of climate change, including droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, rising seas, and massive migration from nearby failing states.

With the help of the Graduate Global Research Grant, I will be able to conduct preliminary research necessary to write the first chapter of my dissertation project on the work of Dominican-Haitian artist Firelei Báez.

My study will consider the scalar relationship between embodiment, indigenous craftsmanship, and the commodification of land, asking how we, as designers, can apply the idea of scaling to use the details of a place as a method to understand the whole.

This project consists of a year-long thesis study surrounding the influence of French garden design on the American landscape as traced through the distribution of French botanical art of the 18th century.

Lithium Territories investigates the current disciplinary debates on Hinterlands Urbanisms and reclaims the agency of design in devising more socially and environmentally just futures.

What if we stop treating soil like dirt?