Current Fellows

Visioning Eco-Connectivity with Youth in the Rio Grande Valley

“Visioning Eco-Connectivity with Youth in the Rio Grande Valley” will at once make scholarly contributions and provide needed actionable insights to decision-makers while also modeling a method of community-led planning and design that prioritizes the needs of a group negatively impacted by a car-centric transit system: youth.

Maggie Hansen
University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

Miriam Solis
University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

Through the Cloud: Remapping Mobility in the Technical Landscapes of Northern Virginia

By examining the Washington and Old Dominion Trail, a critical infrastructural corridor and converted rail line in Northern Virginia, this project asks: how can design reassess the potential of secondary mobility corridors at the edge of major urban areas as alternatives to car-centric networks?

Ali Fard
University of Virginia School of Architecture

Rising Tides, Resilient Lives: Reimagining Vulnerable Communities in the River Deltas of Kampung Melayu, Jakarta

This research explores strategies to mitigate urbanization’s impacts in flood-prone areas, focusing on Kampung Melayu, Jakarta. It proposes a community center and modular, water-resilient shelters to address population density, social and economic vulnerabilities, flood resilience, and water security, aiming for holistic community development balancing environmental, social, and economic needs.

Hao Chang
Tsinghua University School of Architecture

Reconstructing the Power Order of the “Human-Water Relationship” Along China’s Grand Canal

Using the Grand Canal in China as the research subject, this study proposes a theoretical framework of “resilient water rights.” Through multi-scale institutional design, intelligent water network technology, and an ecological-social coordination mechanism, it explores innovative paths to resolve the contradictions in water rights allocation and enhance the sustainable resilience of the river basin. It provides a Chinese example for the governance of the global water crisis.

Lu Ming
Soochow University School of Architecture

Four Dimensions of Water Security: Availability, Accessibility, Resilience, and Sustainability

This proposal analyzes water security through four dimensions—availability, accessibility, resilience, and sustainability—examining challenges and strategies in East/Southeast Asia and Australia. It integrates the UN’s sixth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) (ensuring access to clean water and sanitation for all) with case studies in order to develop a cross-disciplinary evaluation toolkit for policymakers and designers.

Zhang Nan
Southeast University School of Architecture

A Permeable Atlas

Through a series of mappings, “A Permeable Atlas” will explore the circulations of water through buildings, landscapes, and bodies, tracing how hydrological infrastructures—past and present—might inform architecture’s response to contemporary climatic instability.

Pablo Castillo Luna
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Reef Resilience: Designing Modular Solutions for Coastal Protection

During her fellowship, Rebecca Henig will reimagine structural solutions to enhance threatened coral reefs, ultimately serving to aid coastal protection and marine ecosystem vitality.

Rebecca Henig
University of Southern California Viterbi Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Coastal Register: Research and Design of Nature-based Solutions for Wetland Water Security

“Coastal Register” aims to lay the foundation for efforts to protect and restore coastal wetlands along the western seaboard in County Mayo. This project asks the research question: How can architectural methods and interdisciplinary collaboration support the implementation of nature-based solutions for water security?

Steve Larkin
Technological University Dublin School of Architecture Building and Environment

Helen McFadden
Technological University Dublin School of Architecture Building and Environment

Ferras Coulibaly

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture

Erin Kurtycz

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Beni Lawson

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign School of Architecture

Salma Rodriguez

Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture