DESIGN EARTH

DESIGN EARTH is a research practice, founded by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy in 2010. Their work engages the medium of the speculative architectural project to make public the climate crisis. DESIGN EARTH are recipients of the United States Artist Fellowship, Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Boghossian Foundation Prize, and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Awards for outstanding work in architecture and related environmental design fields as a critical endeavor.

The work of DESIGN EARTH has been featured internationally, including commissions for Bauhaus Museum Dessau (2021), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021; 2018; 2016), Seoul Biennale (2017), Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016); and in exhibitions at Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Milano Triennale, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Matadero Madrid, ArkDes in Stockholm, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, Guangzhou Times Museum, and Sursock Museum in Beirut, amongst others. Their project After Oil is in the New York Museum of Modern Art permanent collection.

Ghosn and Jazairy are authors of Geographies of Trash (2015); Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3rd ed. 2022 [2018]), and The Planet After Geoengineering (2021). They are founding editors of the journal New Geographies and editors in chief respectively of issues “Landscapes of Energy” and “Scales of the Earth.”

Rania Ghosn (Lebanon, b. 1977) is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a Doctorate of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a Master in Geography from University College London, and a Bachelor of Architecture from American University of Beirut.

El Hadi Jazairy (Algeria, b. 1970) is Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Urban Design degree program at the University of Michigan. He holds a Doctorate of Design from Harvard, a Master of Architecture from Cornell, and a Bachelor of Architecture from La Cambre in Brussels.

Climate Inheritance

Project Team

Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy, Anhong Li, and Emma Jurczynski, with initial contributions from Marco Nieto and Zhifei Xu.

Project Sponsors

MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology

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