Interspecies Threshold, is developed through field research in one of New York City's micro urban ecologies: the Flower District, which seasonally hosts floral species from across the planet. The project proposes architectures that function simultaneously as pollinator habitats, seasonal symbolic spaces, seed banks, and sites of collective engagement. Through materials such as seeds, sap temporalities, metal, and textile, the work constructs “spectral sanctuaries” multisensory environments that foreground care and interdependence across species, scales, and temporalities. Interspecies third spaces, such as bird houses for rest, communication, reciprocation, guidance, care, and communion. The Flower District's capitalistic armature for species in motion metabolizing in diasporic terrains; vendors in harmony with biological cycles and climate change, becomes a site for the celebration of other species, offering visualities of living natures and edible topographies of land and light, ecological song-mapping, and seed-kite flights to rewild the city. Architecture, here, becomes an apparatus for geomystical planetary solidarity.
I bring this spirit of speculative, embodied inquiry into the projects while developing conceptual and research tools that are rooted, critical, and cosmologically expansive: capable of holding both technical rigor and mythic imagination.Investigating the future of the built environment through decolonial, ecological placemaking. I aspire to cultivate collective agency and kinship to help shape design narratives that celebrate reciprocity and belonging.
I bring this spirit of speculative, embodied inquiry into the projects while developing conceptual and research tools that are rooted, critical, and cosmologically expansive: capable of holding both technical rigor and mythic imagination.Investigating the future of the built environment through decolonial, ecological placemaking. I aspire to cultivate collective agency and kinship to help shape design narratives that celebrate reciprocity and belonging.
ARCHITECTURE OF SENT
Flower District ; INTERSPECIES COLLABORATION
INTERSPECIES THRESHOLD PRESENTATION : LINK
I am rearranging the flowers
I am rearranging the planet.
The scent of a landscape ; its journey and its presence among other species.
The flower district in Manhattan, when the shops are closed during night hours or whee in the morning, one can smell and recognize the species without seeing them, the landscape of flowers based on the sent alone.
The Perishability of landscapes being imported and consumed from a particular place and time.
They say cut Flowers stay alive for 7-12 days, the streets inhabit these Living landscapes offering insights into the living aspects of these flowers. A lot of them bloom one a year or sometimes even once in 10 years. The market becomes a place of keeping up with these ecological time cycles and embracing different transformations. The Violet and Pink Buddleia flowers kept outside the storefronts calls in bees to pollinate and discreetly buzz by the sidewalks alongside humans.
Spatial Sent environments opening up layers of plants and other species dialogues - redesign propositions for species that interact with other species like bees with flowers to integrate multi-species inhabitants in local urban conditions. Through further interventions, revealing production infrastructures and inviting perspectives and new imaginations for what interior exteriorities or rather what exterior interiorities could offer in the process of rewilding them.
Living beings, insofar as they are alive, are a becoming.
Rewilding the urban
Acts of Ephemeralization of space, inviting other species as collaborators to co-exist and rewild through planetary thinking. Perceiving walls around us as elemental, environmental, sonic, atmospheric and perpetually dissolving. Curating each flower species as an act of rearranging the planet ; an act of bringing more awareness.
These become performative ephemeral spaces, blend the threshold between inside and out, indoor domesticities to environmental landscapes, time and timelessness, measurable and immeasurable spaces. They act as portals for performers and audiences to explore different frameworks of simultaneity, plurality and transience.