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Research paper thumbnail of Jakarta as Method: Shopping Malls, Streets, and Mosques

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Research paper thumbnail of Design with Nature Reconsidered

The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking, Jul 19, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Take Back the Land

Architectural Design

Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global en... more Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global environmental and climate emergency. Both IPCC and Paris Agreements commit industrialised nations to drastic reductions of their CO2 emissions so as to keep the rise in global average temperature to well below 1.5 °C. At the same time we know that the environmental emergency is not simply a matter of CO2 emissions, but of feedback loops between multiple metabolic rifts. The challenge is one that requires systematic transformations in planning for sustainable and just modes of coexistence across the planet, in such a way that is globally equitable, while able to both mitigate the impacts of climate breakdown, as well as creating reliable and dependable plans for the future.

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Research paper thumbnail of Monsoonal Multiplicities

Monsoonal Multiplicities is an exhibition of work arising from a five-year engagement with the mo... more Monsoonal Multiplicities is an exhibition of work arising from a five-year engagement with the monsoon in India, Bangladesh, London and Myanmar by the European Research Council funded project, Monsoon Assemblages. It offers visitors a virtual experience of the monsoon by following stories of entangled beings, energies, infrastructures, life-worlds, matters, technologies and knowledge practices and their mobilisation by colonial and neo-colonial agendas. The stories are organised under five themes – framings, infrastructures, interspecies interlocutors, matters and urban assemblages, that serve as cuts through monsoonal encounters. The website has been designed to enable visitors to navigate rhizomatically through the stories and themes – to scroll down, leap across, return, zoom in, pause, or in other ways interact with their content without ever having to return to a home page. Navigation becomes a way of constructing circulations and cross-cutting relations, providing visitors a v...

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Research paper thumbnail of Monsoon Assemblages

The website of Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (E... more The website of Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 679873)

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Research paper thumbnail of Drinking the Winds: Monsoon as Atmospheric Spring

GeoHumanities, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Emergent and Erratic: Monsoonal Transmogrification of Land, Air and Sea

This series of drawings was produced for the 2019 Milan Triennale, Broken Nature, as one of the r... more This series of drawings was produced for the 2019 Milan Triennale, Broken Nature, as one of the research outputs of Monsoon Assemblages, European Research Council Grant no. 679873. The aim of the project is to produce knowledge of changing monsoon climates in South Asia using methods drawn from the environmental humanities and the tools of spatial design. The drawings in this portfolio explore the monsoon at planetary and South Asian scales, in plan and in section. They were prompted by disruptions to the climatic balance at the northern and southern extremes of South Asia - Leh in Ladakh and Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. In recent years the normally dry region of Ladakh has experienced a two-week season of monsoonal cloudbursts and Kanyakumari is becoming more and more drought-prone despite receiving rain from both southwest and northeast monsoons. The aim of the drawings was to understand and present the factors influencing these changing synoptic surroundings, from increased oceanic...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Cries of a City’s Trill

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Research paper thumbnail of Our Enemies are in Power: Zenzi Suhadi in conversation with Christina Leigh Geros, Anna-Sophie Springer & Paulo Tavares

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Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Monsoon Colonial Meteorological Cartography 1844 1944

International Commission on History of Meteorology, Nov 8, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of TAKE BACK THE LAND

Architectural Design Green New Deal, 2021

Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global en... more Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global environmental and climate emergency. Both IPCC and Paris Agreements commit industrialised nations to drastic reductions of their CO2 emissions so as to keep the rise in global average temperature to well below 1.5 °C. At the same time we know that the environmental emergency is not simply a matter of CO2 emissions, but of feedback loops between multiple metabolic rifts. The challenge is one that requires systematic transformations in planning for sustainable and just modes of coexistence across the planet, in such a way that is globally equitable, while able to both mitigate the impacts of climate breakdown, as well as creating reliable and dependable plans for the future.

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Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Monsoon: Colonial Meteorological Cartography, 1844-1944

History of Meteorology , 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Drinking the Winds: Monsoon as Atmospheric Spring

GeoHumanities, 2021

This paper explores monsoons as a set of atmospheric-orographic dynamics productive of water reso... more This paper explores monsoons as a set of atmospheric-orographic dynamics productive of water
resources and as a site of actionable concern for landscape practice. From study to representation to
design, the term “landscape practice” is used to describe a way of positioning environments as both
subject and object of concern. While monsoons are constituents of many geographies, dynamics,
materials and experiences, this paper focuses on the South Asian monsoon and its relationship with
the Tibetan Plateau. In this region, freshwater resources are dependent on the monsoon; however, as
rising global temperatures and rapid urban development significantly impact the behavior of the
monsoon and the Plateau’s ability to store freshwater, the monsoon—as a kinetic body of freshwater—
becomes the focal point of visual media productions and extractive technologies that
require a shifting of perspective from one that privileges land to one that centers the atmosphere.
The inclusion of meteorological and atmospheric material and dynamics within the space of
landscape practice, constructively challenges the spatial discipline’s engagement with exploitable
resources; and the monsoon provides a tangible site and set of conditions that is in urgent need of
this exploration.

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Research paper thumbnail of Designing Momentums: Site, Practice, Media as Landscape

Architectural Design

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Research paper thumbnail of Latent (e)Scapes

Projects Catalog of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, 2016

An interactive and kinetic media installation, Latent (e)Scapes explores the natural-synthetic la... more An interactive and kinetic media installation, Latent (e)Scapes explores the natural-synthetic landscape through systematizing the implicit and explicit impacts of human and non-human forces within the garden. Finding inspiration in the swaying grasses of the prairies and coasts, the work calls into question our roles within everyday environments and creates an immersive experience contrasting with the typical surrounding urban landscape.

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Research paper thumbnail of Jakarta as Method: Shopping Malls, Streets, and Mosques

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Research paper thumbnail of Design with Nature Reconsidered

The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking, Jul 19, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Take Back the Land

Architectural Design

Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global en... more Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global environmental and climate emergency. Both IPCC and Paris Agreements commit industrialised nations to drastic reductions of their CO2 emissions so as to keep the rise in global average temperature to well below 1.5 °C. At the same time we know that the environmental emergency is not simply a matter of CO2 emissions, but of feedback loops between multiple metabolic rifts. The challenge is one that requires systematic transformations in planning for sustainable and just modes of coexistence across the planet, in such a way that is globally equitable, while able to both mitigate the impacts of climate breakdown, as well as creating reliable and dependable plans for the future.

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Research paper thumbnail of Monsoonal Multiplicities

Monsoonal Multiplicities is an exhibition of work arising from a five-year engagement with the mo... more Monsoonal Multiplicities is an exhibition of work arising from a five-year engagement with the monsoon in India, Bangladesh, London and Myanmar by the European Research Council funded project, Monsoon Assemblages. It offers visitors a virtual experience of the monsoon by following stories of entangled beings, energies, infrastructures, life-worlds, matters, technologies and knowledge practices and their mobilisation by colonial and neo-colonial agendas. The stories are organised under five themes – framings, infrastructures, interspecies interlocutors, matters and urban assemblages, that serve as cuts through monsoonal encounters. The website has been designed to enable visitors to navigate rhizomatically through the stories and themes – to scroll down, leap across, return, zoom in, pause, or in other ways interact with their content without ever having to return to a home page. Navigation becomes a way of constructing circulations and cross-cutting relations, providing visitors a v...

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Research paper thumbnail of Monsoon Assemblages

The website of Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (E... more The website of Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 679873)

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Research paper thumbnail of Drinking the Winds: Monsoon as Atmospheric Spring

GeoHumanities, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Emergent and Erratic: Monsoonal Transmogrification of Land, Air and Sea

This series of drawings was produced for the 2019 Milan Triennale, Broken Nature, as one of the r... more This series of drawings was produced for the 2019 Milan Triennale, Broken Nature, as one of the research outputs of Monsoon Assemblages, European Research Council Grant no. 679873. The aim of the project is to produce knowledge of changing monsoon climates in South Asia using methods drawn from the environmental humanities and the tools of spatial design. The drawings in this portfolio explore the monsoon at planetary and South Asian scales, in plan and in section. They were prompted by disruptions to the climatic balance at the northern and southern extremes of South Asia - Leh in Ladakh and Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. In recent years the normally dry region of Ladakh has experienced a two-week season of monsoonal cloudbursts and Kanyakumari is becoming more and more drought-prone despite receiving rain from both southwest and northeast monsoons. The aim of the drawings was to understand and present the factors influencing these changing synoptic surroundings, from increased oceanic...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Cries of a City’s Trill

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Research paper thumbnail of Our Enemies are in Power: Zenzi Suhadi in conversation with Christina Leigh Geros, Anna-Sophie Springer & Paulo Tavares

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Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Monsoon Colonial Meteorological Cartography 1844 1944

International Commission on History of Meteorology, Nov 8, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of TAKE BACK THE LAND

Architectural Design Green New Deal, 2021

Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global en... more Urgent and far-reaching steps are necessary to reorient global economies to address the global environmental and climate emergency. Both IPCC and Paris Agreements commit industrialised nations to drastic reductions of their CO2 emissions so as to keep the rise in global average temperature to well below 1.5 °C. At the same time we know that the environmental emergency is not simply a matter of CO2 emissions, but of feedback loops between multiple metabolic rifts. The challenge is one that requires systematic transformations in planning for sustainable and just modes of coexistence across the planet, in such a way that is globally equitable, while able to both mitigate the impacts of climate breakdown, as well as creating reliable and dependable plans for the future.

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Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Monsoon: Colonial Meteorological Cartography, 1844-1944

History of Meteorology , 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Drinking the Winds: Monsoon as Atmospheric Spring

GeoHumanities, 2021

This paper explores monsoons as a set of atmospheric-orographic dynamics productive of water reso... more This paper explores monsoons as a set of atmospheric-orographic dynamics productive of water
resources and as a site of actionable concern for landscape practice. From study to representation to
design, the term “landscape practice” is used to describe a way of positioning environments as both
subject and object of concern. While monsoons are constituents of many geographies, dynamics,
materials and experiences, this paper focuses on the South Asian monsoon and its relationship with
the Tibetan Plateau. In this region, freshwater resources are dependent on the monsoon; however, as
rising global temperatures and rapid urban development significantly impact the behavior of the
monsoon and the Plateau’s ability to store freshwater, the monsoon—as a kinetic body of freshwater—
becomes the focal point of visual media productions and extractive technologies that
require a shifting of perspective from one that privileges land to one that centers the atmosphere.
The inclusion of meteorological and atmospheric material and dynamics within the space of
landscape practice, constructively challenges the spatial discipline’s engagement with exploitable
resources; and the monsoon provides a tangible site and set of conditions that is in urgent need of
this exploration.

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Research paper thumbnail of Designing Momentums: Site, Practice, Media as Landscape

Architectural Design

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Research paper thumbnail of Latent (e)Scapes

Projects Catalog of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, 2016

An interactive and kinetic media installation, Latent (e)Scapes explores the natural-synthetic la... more An interactive and kinetic media installation, Latent (e)Scapes explores the natural-synthetic landscape through systematizing the implicit and explicit impacts of human and non-human forces within the garden. Finding inspiration in the swaying grasses of the prairies and coasts, the work calls into question our roles within everyday environments and creates an immersive experience contrasting with the typical surrounding urban landscape.

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