University of Southern California
PROJECTS 2022
Prosthetic B-Habitat
Summer Xiang, Danielle Takahashi, Bradley Manucha, Cole Slater
The project proposes a bee habitat made from mycelilum to decontaminate soil and revitalize native solitary bee populations.
Instructors 2022
Aroussiak Gabrielian
Aroussiak Gabrielian is an environmental designer and media artist working with biological materials, natural systems, and atmospheric phenomena. 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. Aroussiak is co-founder and design director of foreground design agency, an award winning critical design practice based in Los Angeles, that aims to dismantle structures of power and privilege that render specific humans, species, and matter silent. Aroussiak is currently an assistant professor of landscape architecture and urbanism at the School of Architecture, affiliate faculty of Media Arts and Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts, and director of the newly established Landscape Futures Lab, all at the University of Southern California.
Advisors 2022
Nich Mamrak, Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone
Joel Sachs, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, UC Riverside
Ariel Levi Simmons, Marine Ecology and Environmental Biology, UCSC
Rusty Lansford, Research Radiology, Children’s Hospital, USC