ECOLOGIES OF JUSTICE

CURRENT VENTURES: BEAVERS AS ALLIES IN CLIMATE AND CULTURE

This project is about multispecies entanglement in climate change, and a series of long-term and short-term cultural and hydrological designs. Beginning with a territorial examination of the Middle James River Watershed, this project travels throughout the watershed from Rassawek, the historic Monacan capital at the confluence of the James and the Rivanna River. Our guide into this future is the beaver The eradication of beavers at the hands of European colonists paralleled the eradication and displacement of Indigenous groups across the continent.

Through Beaver habitat restoration (long term hydrological intervention) and a series of spillway design (short term hydrological intervention), this project hopes to catalyze changes in our relationship with more-than-humans species and the land we all share.

These wet landscapes demonstrate interconnectedness of cause and effects on the scale of regional landscape, and that land stewardship is a multi-species commitment.

*This is a group project done with Phoebe Tamminen and Erica Schapiro-Sakashita. All the drawings included in this portfolio are done by me unless marked otherwise.

Restore Beaver Habitat

straight, incised stream install baffles create meander attract beavers diverse habitat groundwater restoration

Beavers As An Ally Long Term Hydrological Intervention

*This drawing is done collaboratively with teammates

LONG TERM HYDROLOGICAL INTERVENTION: SPILLWAY TYPOLOGY + DESIGN

RIVERS ACTIVATED BY LONG/SHORT TERM HYDROLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS