Design Earth
DESIGN EARTH is a design research practice that deploys the speculative project—through drawing and narrative—to make the climate crisis public. The studio is directed by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. Its work operates at the intersection of architecture, environment, and representation, using research-driven projects to examine planetary-scale challenges and their spatial, political, and cultural implications.
DESIGN EARTH’s work has been presented internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, SFMOMA, the Triennale di Milano, the Sursock Museum in Beirut, the Times Museum in Guangdong, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ghosn and Jazairy are authors of Geographies of Trash (2015), Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3rd ed. 2022), The Planet After Geoengineering (2021), and Climate Inheritance (2023).
The studio has received several awards, including the United States Artist Fellowship, the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Awards, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Awards. Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) in Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. El Hadi Jazairy is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Urban Design program at the University of Michigan.
