During my senior year of high school, I undertook a capstone project that had to capture both my learnings and aspirations. One evening, I learned from the news about the decline in the right whale population due to ship strikes and fishing gear. The population is also finding it difficult to adapt to its warming environments.
Read MoreUnder our capitalistic framework of unrestrained growth, our architecture of carbon-producing machines, water-polluting materials, and energy-intensive climate control, has expelled nature from our spaces whilst exacerbating our role in climate change. The Global North, particularly, must rethink its increasing trends of hermeticism—environmental and beyond. These four models—resembling soil core tests—are spaces within a proposed research institution in the American Arid Lands dedicated to preserving and living with nature.
Read MoreThis idea was summoned when I was about 15 years of age, just finding out how much harm the earth takes in each day. I was learning about pollution, seeing wildfires start all over the globe, wars that kill everything around them. As a 15 year old, still finishing high school, I felt helpless. As if I was a little bunny watching my world burn. Unable to move, unable to run, knowing that it will kill everything including me in its sight.
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