Mission
In light of the negative effects of climate change, we are inspired to enhance ecological cycles through generative design. Our innovative approaches for addressing environmental challenges include computational and haptic methods spanning digital models, 3D printing, image scanning, remote sensing and more. We recognize our work is situated within layers of history and possible futures and builds capacity for strengthening the networks that connect us.
Goals
Our work aims to generate insight to facilitate community engagement with the surrounding environment. In the built environment, for example, we are currently working to design modular irrigation planters that optimally release water. Our backgrounds of art, architecture, and landscape architecture informs an intersectional practice that interrogates landscape across time and scale.
Approach
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Prototyping
“Not until the pattern is repeated, with feedback from the conscious mind, do we know what we are seeing.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
History
While working on our Master’s Projects in the landscape architecture program at the University of Oregon, we found that our approaches and methods aligned serendipitously. We both studied the effects of small biota like algae and mosses and their hidden, almost invisible, impacts on ecosystem health.
Our work has involved honing skills in computational design with different goals: Aaron’s work includes a series of digital responsive models aimed at understanding algae while Heather focuses on 3D printing bio-receptive substrates via parametric design. We enjoy employing abductive research methods with the shared goal to extend landscape architecture’s capacity at understanding our world.
After graduating in 2021 , we relocated to Denver and currently work at local landscape architecture firms. We are fortunate to have found a live/work space that allows us to explore ideas through our creative practice, Hyphae. We are excited to continue a creative practice together and collaborate on innovative research through design practice.
Land Acknowledgment
We honor and acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territories and homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, and 45 additional Nations. The people who have stewarded the land for tens of thousands of years have been forcibly, removed, murdered, or silenced due to acts inherent of settler-colonialism. We aim to understand the how the education and practice of landscape architecture can either perpetuate or shift away from the settler-colonialism worldview. It is our goal to shed light on and adapt new opportunities in which the profession of landscape architecture can be more sustainable and accountable to the living and ancestral people of the land on which we design.