“Geostories”
Taraneh Meshkani - Assistant Professor at Kent State University
Rania Ghosn - Associate Professor at MIT School of Architecture + Planning and Founding Partner of DESIGN EARTH
Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor of architecture and urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding partner of Design Earth with El Hadi Jazairy. Her practice engages design as a speculative medium for making visible and public the geographies of the climate crisis.
The work of Design Earth has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Matadero Madrid; SFMOMA, MAAT Lisbon; Triennale di Milano, Sursock Museum; Guangdong Times Museum, Oslo Architecture Triennale, the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Rania is founding editor of the journal New Geographies, editor of Landscapes of Energy (2009), and co-author of Geographies of Trash (2015) and Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2020; 2018), the with support for the first edition from the Graham Foundation. Her essays have appeared in Log, AD, Domus, Volume, Icon, Avery Review, Journal of Architectural Education, ARQ, San Rocco, Perspecta, Thresholds, and in edited volumes on energy, infrastructure, and climate.
Ghosn is recipient of the Architectural League Prize (2016), the ACSA Faculty Design Awards (2014; 2017), the Boghossian Foundation Prize (2017), and other honors. 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 the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Website: www.design-earth.org
Instagram: _designearth
Taraneh Meshkani is an Assistant Professor at College of Architecture & Environmental Design at Kent State University. She holds a doctoral degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the Spaces of Conflict and the divergence of physical and digital spaces in times of unrest.
Meshkani’s research examines the linkage of new information and communication technologies and their spatialities to the social and political processes of contemporary cities.
