University of Southern California
PROJECTS | 2020
(Eco)ustic Tiles
Tessa Kennedy, Jong Joo Kim, Qingru Yang
(Eco)ustic Tiles is a wall system designed as a habitat for symbiotic organisms that work together to mitigate noise, pollution, and other environmental impacts along freeways.
Finalist Team
Instructor
Aroussiak Gabrielian
Aroussiak Gabrielian is a speculative designer with training in architecture, landscape architecture, and media arts. Her design work aims to torque our imaginaries to help us re-think our interactions with both human and non-human agents on this planet. She is Co-Founder and Design Director of foreground design agency (www.foreground-da.com), a critical design practice. Gabrielian holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts Practice from the School of Cinematic Arts at USC and a dual masters in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work on alternative environmental futures has received numerous recognitions including the Tomorrowland Projects Foundation Award administered through the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Word Changing Ideas Awards recognized by Fast Company, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Gabrielian is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at the School of Architecture at USC.
Advisors
Catherine Euale
Douglas Goodwin, Scripps College
Parag Mital, Hypersurfaces
Joel Sachs, UC Riverside