Beejakshar
(Seed language)
Ongoing explorations in ethics, domesticity, urban ecologies, cosmogony, and social architectural design proposals in Lenapehoking (New York).
Each project is a speculative experiment in architecture as a living, participatory system, a space for co-becoming, ritual, and ecological imagination. This digital publication unfolds these phases as interconnected constellations, inviting exploration across scales, mediums, and modalities.
Ongoing explorations in ethics, domesticity, urban ecologies, cosmogony, and social architectural design proposals in Lenapehoking (New York).
Each project is a speculative experiment in architecture as a living, participatory system, a space for co-becoming, ritual, and ecological imagination. This digital publication unfolds these phases as interconnected constellations, inviting exploration across scales, mediums, and modalities.
Phase 1: Cosmogonic Architecture
1. Architecture of Flight
Architecture of Flight explores mobile infrastructure for habitation, mobility, and ecological experimentation. Inspired by bird bones, flight patterns, and evolutionary morphologies, it translates natural strategies into lightweight, adaptable architectural frameworks designed for movement and sustainability, using zero-energy principles and ecological materials.
2. Planetary Domesticities
Micro tools and domestic objects reimagined at planetary scales, tracing everyday life into ecological and cosmic phenomena from nebulae to planetary patterns to reveal connections between human ritual and planetary systems.
Phase 2: Architecture of Ethics
1. Institute of Co-Becomings
A platform for collaborative research, connecting craft communities, designers, and thinkers across the globe. The Institute explores co-making, co-thinking, co-caring, co-owning and community dreaming as tools to reimagine material craft, social, and ecological futures.
A collaborative project between Swati Jain and Paula Aguilera at The New Centre
2. Women’s Centre in MP, India
A participatory design project envisioning a safe, empowering, and culturally sensitive space for women, incorporating local craft, biomaterials, and collective ritual practices.
Phase 3: Social Architecture
1. Decolonizing the MET
A speculative exhibition design reimagining colonial legacies by reconnecting artifacts to their homelands through cultural, ecological, and ethical lenses. The project explores quantum entanglement as a framework to redesign the exhibition, fostering dialogue between objects, histories, and communities.
A socially embedded museum model, c-curated by community members, to document, celebrate, and co-evolve local histories and practices.
Phase 4: Architecture of the Domestic
1. Seed Shirt
A wearable, bio-material experiment that integrates seeds into a garment, exploring ritual, care, and growth in everyday practices.
2. Seed Desk
A micro seed bank, a foraging desk designed to cultivate reflection, mobility, multi-sensory awareness, and ecological engagement.
3. Collective Kitchen
Reimagining the kitchen as a space of collaboration, queerness, ritual, and cross-cultural exchange, blending intergenerational culinary practices with spatial design, kin making and multisensory experiences.
4. Seed Planter
A human scale planter and sculptural object, integrating clay, seeds, and ritual to explore the intersection of domesticity and ecological stewardship.
A human scale planter and sculptural object, integrating clay, seeds, and ritual to explore the intersection of domesticity and ecological stewardship.
Interspecies Pavilion
An urban structure in NYC’s Flower District, designed to facilitate encounters between humans and non-human species, integrating biomimicry, shedded skins of past species compressed onto textile to evoke interconnected awareness and playful spectral experiences for micro viewing landscapes.
Index
Beejakshar
Institute of Co-becomings
De-colonizing museums
Interspecies pavillion
Elastic domesticities
School in MP
Thresholds
Topo Abudance
Design lab
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