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Running on Cargo
✕ Index
REMEMBERING WILLOWBROOK
— Installed in Compton Creek, Ujima Village, and the Willowbrook Community Garden, 2021. Prototypes of our community generated memorial markers installed in...
MEMORY THEATERS
— In collaboration with LACMA, LA Country Arts & Culture, LA Country Parks & Recreation, LA Commons, and the Willowbrook Inclusion Network, 2021. As part of an...
HYPERNATURES
— In collaboration with architect Doris Sung, structural engineer Powell Draper, and climate engineer Thomas Auer, 2020. In Hypernatures, Nature is...
INTERSPECIES OPERA
— Finalist, Festival International de Jardins, 20th Edition, Metis, Canada, 2019. In collaboration with musical composer Suzanne Farrin. This project makes...
A HAT FOR ALICE WATERS
— Fabricated at the request of chef Alice Waters, American Academy in Rome, 2018. Using spicy radish and cabbage microgreens and fabric, we seeded this...
BIO-LOGICS
— Exhibited at the Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries for AI exhibit at Oxy Arts in Los Angeles, CA 2021. Situated in the community reading room of the Oxy...
LANDSCAPES OF FORGETTING
— Select images printed in Tricia Treacy's artist's book, Slot: a book that blurs, conceals + reveals, which launched at San Serriffe Bookstore in Amsterdam and...
GIBIGIANA
— Installed for performance by composer Suzanne Farrin (Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition) at the American Academy in Rome, in collaboration with Stefano...
POSTHUMAN HABITATS
— Exhibited at the American Academy in Rome, in collaboration with Grant Calderwood, Irene Tortora, and the Rome Sustainable Food Project, 2018. This speculative...
WALKING COMMEMORATION
— This memorial proposal for Sandy Hook is not “permanent” in the sense of remaining static and unchanging, but will undergo linear and cyclical change as part of ...
PROSTHETIC LANDSCAPES
— Inaugural recipient of the Tomorroland Projects Foundation Award, 2019. Responding to acts aimed at destabilizing outdated narratives of power, this project...
FUTURE VISIONS FOR THE CITY
— Commissioned by a confidential client, Los Angeles, CA. Working alongside product designers, technologists and other futurists, foreground was brought onto a...
GARDEN AS GARMENT
— Published in International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design, issue theme: Corporeal Complexities, 2014. This project expands the limits of...
STREETVIEW AS STORYSPACE
— Published in Digital Futures and the City of Today: New Technologies and Physical Spaces, Intellect Books, 2016. This project proposes a design methodology...
GEOGRAPHY OF THE LA FREEWAYS
— Exhibited at the SCA Gallery, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, 2015. This research considers the Los Angeles freeways as a lens...
QUEENS-BEATS
— Published in Innovations in Landscape Architecture, Routledge Press, 2016. As one of the most ethnically diverse urban areas in the world, Queens, NY is shaped...
PERFORMANCE DECK
— Commissioned by Mount Tremper Arts, Catskill Mountains, NY. This design for an outdoor performance deck began with an analysis of the topographic condition of...
IN PASSING
— Exhibited at Rosendin Gallery, University of Southern California School of Architecture, 2014. This research-in-progress examines the United States as it is...
HOME IS A HOUSE IN A PHOTOGRAPH
— Winner of the Grand Prix and Audience Award at the Southern Margins International Short Film Festival, 2017. This is an experimental film essay examining the...
RECIPE LANDSCAPE
— Prize winner of the ‘Pruitt-Igoe Now’ international design ideas competition, March 2012. Though memories of Pruitt-Igoe haunt St. Louis and discrimination pla...
GARDEN OF CULTIVATED VARIETY
— Finalist for the Internationale Gartenschau Hamburg 2013. The word CULTIVAR is derived from ‘cultivated’ and ‘variety’. No place has cultivated variety more tha...
TRANSGRESSING THE GRID
— Exhibited at ‘The Greatest Grid' exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, 2011. The future of Manhattan’s street grid lies in the opportunities cre...
MONSOON SURFACE
— Exhibited at Design in the Terrain of Water. Philadelphia, PA, 2012. This proposal re-invents existing infrastructural systems in Mumbai in order to create a...
FRAGMENTARY LANDSCAPES
— Exhibited at Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning, as part of the Charles M. Sappenfield Distinguished Guest Lecture, 2017. These...
SYNTHETIC NATURE
— Installed in Philadelphia, 2010. This project was inspired by the highly manicured “nature” of private spaces intended for public use. It was initiated by a map...
CATALYTIC SCAFFOLD
— Featured in 'Landscapes in Process.' Philadelphia, PA, 2007. Beginning as an investigation into the disparate textures found in the Wissahickon forest, the...
ATMOSPHERIC SCREEN
— This paneled screen is composed of concrete tiles that each form uniquely to an open-ended fabrication process that captures the material’s shift from liquid to s...
SHIFTING GEOGRAPHIES
— Tracing the origins of Ricinus Communis, or the Castor Plant, six different uses of the plant were identified historically and mapped through space and in time....