Larissa Belcic

Larissa Belcic is a landscape architectural designer and artist, and is a Co-Founding Director of Nocturnal Medicine, a non-profit studio for cultural transformation and climate consciousness. Her work is interdisciplinary, bringing together landscape architecture, experience design, sound, performance, and participatory social practice, and is oriented towards addressing and healing enviromental-cultural wounds.

Larissa grew up on stolen Lenape land in New Jersey, between the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers. From childhood, she has been a student of the area’s polluted grounds, wandering the urban-suburban-industrial edges of New York City. Born into Italian-American and immigrant Istrian communities, Larissa’s background is formed by the tapestries of the NYC region and the Mediterranean.

Larissa holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, and has practiced in both research-oriented practices (OFICINAA, TerreformONE) and traditional practice (MBC Landscape Architecture) alike, and has a burgeoning landscape design & social practice studio, Land of the Living. In addition to University of Pennsylvania, She has taught design studios at Rhode Island School and Columbia University, and lectured widely on her work.

As Nocturnal Medicine, she has created sanctuaries for ecological grief, climate-aware seasonal rites, chapels for extinction, and raves for public healing. Nocturnal Medicine has designed immersive social experiences across diverse platforms, including in nightclubs (Nowadays, Gospel), landscapes (The Bentway, Opus 40), cultural centers (Lincoln Center, Performance Space NY), and universities across the country (Yale, UVA, MIT, Syracuse). Their work has been celebrated in The New York Times and Canada’s Global News, amongst other media sources,as bringing a cutting-edge, soul-centered approach to addressing the psycho-emotional impacts of ecological crisis.