Rania Ghosn: The Geographic Imagination

The Department of Landscape Architecture welcomes Rania Ghosn as part of its Landscape Now lecture series.

Rania Ghosn is associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding partner with El Hadi Jazairy of DESIGN EARTH. Their design research practice employs the speculative project as a medium to make public the climate crisis. The work of DESIGN EARTH is in the New York Museum of Modern Art permanent collection and has been widely published and exhibited internationally, recently at Venice Biennial, Bauhaus Museum Dessau and SFMOMA. Ghosn is recipient of the United States Artist Fellowship, Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Graham Foundation grants, and ACSA Faculty Design Awards for outstanding work in environmental design fields as a critical endeavor. Her books include Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3rd ed. 2022; 2018), Geographies of Trash, 2015, and The Planet After Geoengineering (2021). She is founding member of the journal New Geographies and editor-in-chief of the issue Landscapes of Energy. Ghosn holds a Bachelor of Architecture from American University of Beirut, a Master of Geography from University College London, and a Doctor of Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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