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The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present
Rania Ghosn
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, MIT; Partner, DESIGN EARTH
Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and founding partner of DESIGN EARTH with El Hadi Jazairy. DESIGN EARTH deploys the speculative narrative to make public the climate crisis. Their work “After Oil” is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Bauhaus Museum Dessau, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Triennale Milano, and Sursock Museum in Beirut. They are authors of Geographies of Trash (2015), Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3rd ed. 2022; 2018), The Planet After Geoengineering (2021), and Climate Inheritance (2023).
Ghosn is recipient of the United States Artist Fellowship, Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, and ACSA Faculty Design Awards. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from American University of Beirut, a Master of Geography from University College London, and a Doctor of Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was founding editor of the journal New Geographies and editor of Landscapes of Energy (2009).
Image: DESIGN EARTH, Climate Inheritance, 2023. Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and Forest of the Cedars of God [3/3].
Contact: Liz Flanagan