We are pleased to invite you to our next Feminist Spatial Practice Share next week on June 24th and 5pm ET!!

We have initiated the online Practice Share as a way to celebrate feminist spatial practices and connect with likeminded practitioners across the globe. In this session Aroussiak Gabrielian is invited to present her practice, after which we will have a collective conversation mediated Virginia Melnyk.
Aroussiak Gabrielian is an environmental designer and bioartist working with living organisms, natural systems, and atmospheric phenomena to explore mutispecies entanglements across scales. Her work aims to torque our imaginaries to help us rethink our interactions with both human and non-human agents on this planet. Aroussiak is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, where she teaches design across ecologic and biologic scales. She is an Affiliate Faculty of Media Arts Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts and Founding Director of the Landscape Futures Lab, which is focused on expanding the climate imaginary. Outside of academia, Aroussiak is a member of NEW INC, the arts and technology incubator of the New Museum in New York City, and Founding Design Principal of foreground design agency, a critical design practice based in Los Angeles that aims to dismantle structures of power and privilege that render specific humans, species, and matter silent.
This year we have organized our community programming around four themes. The theme of this session is Feminist World Building - we will be collectively imagining a feminist futurescape and identifying ways of moving towards a just built environment. We are excited to see the World Building that Aroussiak engages in within her practice and will directly connect to our upcoming World Building event.
Feel free to share this invitation, everybody is welcome.