14/10/2024
Another full conversation from the pages of Issue Five—“Worlding Anew: Rania Ghosn () and Leen Katrib () on Drawing Together Climate and Heritage”—is now available to read on deemjournal.com.
Centering their discussion around ’s newest book, “Climate Inheritance”—a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene—Ghosn and Katrib consider the concepts of heritage & inheritance in the face of a such unstable futures, sites of cultural importance as opportunities for alternative storytelling, and futuring as an ethical responsibility.
Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding partner, with El Hadi Jazairy, of DESIGN EARTH. Their design research practice employs the speculative architecture project as a medium to make visible and public the climate crisis. They are authors of Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3rd ed. 2022; 2018), Geographies of Trash (2015), The Planet After Geoengineering (2021), and Climate Inheritance (2023). Ghosn is recipient of the United States Artist Fellowship, the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, the Boghossian Foundation Prize, and ACSA Faculty Design Awards.
Leen Katrib is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Her work investigates architecture’s materiality and historiography and designs new frameworks for marginalized histories and material culture. It has been supported by Art Omi, MacDowell/NEA, Harry der Boghosian, and P.D. Soros fellowships, and Howard Crosby Butler, William & Neoma Timme, and George H. Mayr travel grants; published in Future Anterior, Pidgin, Room One Thousand, and Bracket; exhibited at Lexington Art League, Syracuse University, Van Der Plas Gallery, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and A+D Museum.
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