Tierra Media Project

Academic Professional Professional

Making space for Latine/x/a/o voices in search of new definitions of engagement with the land

2021-2022 Landscape Architecture Foundation

In the Spring of 2020, I co-founded the Tierra Media Project alongside 8 other designers with roots in Latin America, supported by the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Fellowship for Innovation + Leadership. In June 2022, we presented a yearlong project at the LAF Symposium launching an open space media platform that celebrates and supports alternative ways of knowing and working with the land. Rooted in a Latinx/ American perspective, we propose “La Tierra” as a reorientation of conventional landscape practices, replacing exploitative and disruptive methods with frameworks for designing with nature. We exist to provide a safe space for inspiration, connection, learning, and reflection about our relationship with each other and the land. Based on our own collective identities and experiences, we reckon with centuries of trauma, displacement, and erasure, and created Tierra Media as a platform that connects landscape to healing, community, representation and joy. Based in counter-archiving and environmental justice, the platform continues to collect research, stories, and resources that cultivates a collective imagining of new futures for ecology and the field of landscape architecture.