LATEST PROJECTS
Masters | 01
HOUSTON
MASTERS | 01 Houston_Art as Healing
Nature will exist without us, and it does not need us – but we need nature, and water, and everything that lives in these environments. Humans can focus on different mediums of relevance and importance, where “your priorities are what count, and what you wish to protect and pay attention to” – we can focus on scientific facts or move toward emotion (Hoagland, 1).
Masters | 02
NEW YORK
MASTERS | 02 THE SOUND OF HARLEM
Harlem holds a passionate history, a history of displacement and segregation, where key points in America’s history took place - the drive of Marcus Garvey in Black nationalism, and the UNIA parade - the music continued.
I approached the open spaces between buildings to reactivate these networks, where music acts as a connector among all. These spaces, however, will be clear from street view - yet the access remains a mystery. I explored sound waves and drew out my emotions while listening to famous Jazz artists of the time such as Scott Joplin, analyzing how these bubbles of activation could bring back what was lost from the relocation of the Cotton Club. I want to bring back the stoep culture, where 111th street was previously a pedestrianized street - the street as social gathering.
Masters | 03
COSTA RICA
Project | 03 PEDAGOGICAL PLURALISM
In La Carpio, one can see how the society has been marginalized and controlled by means of its children – where the closest high schools are inaccessible in the sense that they are private and unaffordable to the citizens of La Carpio, where the natural terrain is utilized as separating class. This geographical fragmentation can be noted in the past, of the tuberculosis schools. I aim to argue against the linear model of education according to the stages of development, where the ages learn from one another in a place which lacks the infrastructure in order to do so.
