climate

futures


On view at the Liberty Research Annex
October 17, 2024 - January 1, 2025


about
projects
  1. 22/26 Midwest
  2. Ambiguous Territory
  3. Annotation and Insulation
  4. Asutsuare Rebound
  5. Atlas of the Trans-Apocalypse
  6. Becoming Biomass
  7. Bespoke Ultra-Thin Layered 3D-printed Reusable Wood-Bio-Based Formwork for Casting Complex Concrete Geometries
  8. Branch Wall: Geometrically Informed Non-Planar Toolpath and Material Deposition
  9. Deploy 2.0
  10. Detroit Cultural Center
  11. Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
  12. Fabric-Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth
  13. Frie(s/d)
  14. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing
  15. Guidance for Designing and Implementing Constitutionally Valid Local Plans and Regulations to Protect Landmarked Trees, Woodlands, and Tree Canopy in Michigan
  16. Heat and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements
  17. Hygroscopic Envelope: Building Enclosures for Climate Adaptation
  18. In My Backyard
  19. In-Svalbard: Cold Coast Atlas
  20. Land, Foodways, and Kinship: The Case of Palestinian Villages
  21. Light Forms
  22. MiCE Architecture: Design Strategies to Mitigate Michigan Coastal Erosion
  23. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  24. Myco-Composite Furniture
  25. Post Rock Post-Industrial Plastic Facade
  26. re:FE Reimagining Mining Waste from a Wounded Region
  27. Shell Wall: Coupling Non-Planar Robotic 3D Concrete Printing and Topology Optimization
  28. Solar Technology Integration on Building Facades
  29. The Canopy
  30. The Lifespan Project
  31. Unfolding Forms of Conveyance
  32. Urban Climate Law Series
  33. Vertical Wetlands





Unfolding Forms of Conveyance
Zain AbuSeir                   2024

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Psychological and philosophical migrations are as vital to graceful migration as infrastructural, scientific, and adaptive actions. Graceful migrations–how to live with the realities of massive change without being overtaken by paralyzing fear, depression, guilt. 
Smudge Studio

Witnessing the murkiness of temporal and spatial boundaries are drifters, lingerers and posts. Instruments of measure and interpretation of the environment and climate change, existing within the periphery of fields of inquiry witnessing planetary shifts. They observe events of contamination, displacement, migration and transfiguration. They make legible the scales and complexities of events of climate change by registering environmental particularities. Unfolding scenes of conveyance with these instruments as they offer to index charged matter and patterns, catch glitches, reorient situational boundaries to project scenes of migration while  grounded in knowledge,  a suspended between the factual and the imaginary is a way to offer opportunities of potential entanglements and rhythms.

Additional credits:
Research Assistants: Kavya Ramesh, Erin Roberts
Exhibition Production Assistants: Erin Kurtycz,  Jacob Yu