DESIGN EARTH: Rania Ghosn (Left) and El Hadi Jazairy (right).

DESIGN EARTH, Rania Ghosn (Left) and El Hadi Jazairy (right). Courtesy the artists.

Talk & Lecture
 

This Artist Talk is part of the exhibition Design Earth: Speculative Fiction for the Climate, and is Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy‘s first presentation in Singapore.

Geostories

Friday, 13 June 2025 · 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Join DESIGN EARTH co-founders and co-directors Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy for their first presentation in Singapore, where they will share insights into their collaborative research practice centred on the speculative architectural project as a mode of making the climate crisis public. Their design research brings together spatial history, geographic representation, projective design, and material public assemblies to speculate on ways of living with legacy technologies on a damaged planet. Recipients of the United States Artist Fellowship and the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, among other honors, Ghosn and Jazairy have made a practice of telling complex and unwieldy stories of the Earth. Learn more about their ongoing explorations of visual and spatial storytelling.

Friday, 13 June 2025 
6:30 – 8:30 pm

The Hall, NTU CCA Singapore
6 Lock Rd, #01-09/10 Gillman Barracks 108934

Free registration here.

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DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
DESIGN EARTH Artist Talk: Geostories, 13 June 2025. Photo by Eunice Lacaste. Courtesy NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
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Contributors
DESIGN EARTH: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy
DESIGN EARTH
Artist
United States

DESIGN EARTH was founded by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy in 2011. The design research practice deploys the speculative project—drawing and narrative—to make public the climate crisis. Their work has been featured internationally—most recently at Venice Biennale, Bauhaus Museum Dessau, SFMOMA, Milano Triennale—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 (3rd 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 Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Master of Urban Design degree program at the University of Michigan.