DESIGN EARTH

DESIGN EARTH engages the medium of the speculative architectural project to make public the climate crisis. They are recipients of the 2022 United States Artist Fellowship and Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, amongst other honors. Their work has been featured internationally, including at Venice Biennale of Architecture, Bauhaus Museum Dessau, SFMOMA, Sursock Museum, Milano Triennale and Matadero Madrid. Their project “After Oil” was collected by New York Museum of Modern Art. They are authors of “Geographies of Trash” (2015); “Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment” (3rd ed. 2022), and “The Planet After Geoengineering” (2021). DESIGN EARTH was founded and is led by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy.

Ghosn (b. Beirut, 1977) is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jazairy (b. Algeria, 1970) is Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Master of Urban Design degree program at the University of Michigan.

Ghosn and Jazairy hold Doctor of Design degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where they were founding editors of the journal “New Geographies.”