Design Earth
(Lebanon/Algeria)DESIGN EARTH deploys the speculative project—drawing and narrative—to make public the climate crisis. The design research practice is directed by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy.
Their work has been featured internationally—including at Venice Biennale, Bauhaus Museum Dessau, SFMOMA, Milano Triennale, Sursock Museum in Beirut, Times Museum in Guangdong, Oslo Architecture Triennale and Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism—and is in the New York Museum of Modern Art permanent collection. Ghosn and Jazairy are authors of Geographies of Trash (2015); Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3nd ed. 2022), The Planet After Geoengineering (2021) and Climate Inheritance (2023). DESIGN EARTH has been recognized with several awards, including United States Artist Fellowship, Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Awards, and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Awards.
Rania Ghosn (Beirut, b. 1977) 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 (Algeria, b. 1970) is Professor of Architecture and Director of Master of Urban Design degree program at the University of Michigan.
