ELYSIA, 2021
Winner of AA Visiting School’s competition "Animalesque City: Visions for Human/Animal Cohabitation." Shown as part of the Arch+ exhibition "Cohabitation: A Manifesto for the Solidarity of Non-Humans and Humans in Urban Space" at silent green, Berlin, June 2021.
Spatializing Reproductive Justice, 2023-current
Addressing a post-Roe v. Wade landscape, this traveling exhibition explores the spatial, legal, and social logistics of reproductive healthcare access within hostile political contexts. Building on the work of design studios across three institutions, the exhibition presents analysis of reproductive healthcare networks as well as architectural strategies for countering threats to bodily autonomy.
Atro-City, 2023-current
Work-In-Progress
A Microbiome of Emotions, 2022
More and more we are finding out how the microbiome within and around our bodies has a profound impact on our emotions – the urge to kiss is brought on by a desire for bacteria to test their compatibility with one another; an imbalance of bacteria in one's gut can bring about depression and anxiety. This project is an ode to what we can’t see, but rather feel.
Moltun, 2022
In Iceland, the Huldufólk (elves) are not only protectors of nature but also of the creatures and processes associated with nature. Cycles of life and death are revered with awe. Decay is a vital process in our world, an event that allows the old to nourish the new. Much of this project recognizes these cycles of decay, like composting, as a way of thinking and designing.
Desert Rain Frog, 2020
An innovative and playful landscape of rehabilitation that treats bodies of water and land ruined by mining operations and other human activity along the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. The infrastructure rejuvenates the site via bacteria that break down polluted waters safely with the help of algae.
The World of Elysia, 2021
Exploring a symbiogenetic future where the thresholds between human and non-human are dissolved to a chimeric expression of DNA. The kaleidoscopic intermingling of parts informs the urban and architectural environment of this future world; learning from symbiotic creatures the architecture is activated, enhancing the human experience.
City Hive, 2018
A woven form that acts as the mediator between humans and non-humans, ultimately revealing our interdependence to nature. We are entangled in the very nature we try to set apart from humans.
Sea Wall, 2018
This exploration in seaweed as a material for enclosure gave new meaning to the “living wall.” The woven seaweed expands and contracts depending on moisture.
Hair Hat, 2019
Horse hair is woven to create a veil, providing a sense of protection. The piece pays homage to a historic cross-species process that produced birth control using horse urine.
When It Rains, 2020
A series of knots and loose ends that brings Women’s Work into a more architectural expression that one can engage with, feeling the weight yet playfulness of the piece.
(De)Colonizing, 2019
The aesthetics of the other in the face of excess.