Design Studio 5: Hart Island
Visitor center & nursery; to reconsider site-as-memorial for the many unclaimed peoples and histories buried on Hart Island. In acknowledging the trauma embodied by the land and its constructed environments, this project reclaims space for mourning through encouraging visitors to carry with them and plant native vegetation around the island; both as a living memory of their loved ones (and those peoples unclaimed) and as a means of healing the land itself through the renewal of ecological biodiversity.
2020