Commonstudio engages in three primary modes of creation: Interventions, Installations and Initiatives. Interventions are sanctioned or unsanctioned actions that are developed with and within specific places. Installations are temporary gallery-based works incorporating interactive or multimedia elements, including models and representations of our site-specific projects. Initiatives are long-term transdisciplinary projects focused on creating broader social, ecological and spatial impact in collaboration with various outside partners. We also engage in ongoing or short term creative experiments that don’t fit neatly into these categories; We call these tangents.
INTERVENTIONS
Metropoliz Future Forest
An ongoing experiment in “collaborative ecology”, exploring the use of weeds to transform a post-industrial site.
Amounting a Salt (Pile Study No. 2)
A temporary landscape intervention comprised of 30 tons of de-icing salt
Suparichit (Pile Study No.1)
Seeding new perceptions and possibilities amid the marginalized landscapes of Bangalore.
(C)urban Ecology
Re-imagining the typical curb and gutter infrastructure as a site for micro-remediation of polluted storm water.
Know Your Palms
Encouraging Angelenos to take a closer look at their iconic flora.
INSTALLATIONS
A-Roma
Revealing alternative urban narratives through the ecology of scent.
At This Point in Time
A projection in conversation with “Amounting a salt”, intended to extend the spatial locus of site-specific work to other settings.
Large and Round When Popped
An interactive celebration of vernacular landscape materials
Mesquite Migration a short film examining the process of Assisted Migration for urban/rural exchange
INITIATIVES
Greenaid
Playfully activating underutilized urban spaces through community engagement and tactical seed distribution.
D3
A methodology and program that empowers urban youth to channel their interests and enrich their community through design.
STRAINS
Collaborating with (and within) informal wastewater networks in Bangalore.
COMMONgood
Redefining the role of design as a form of civic activism through volunteerism and community collaboration.
The Mesquite Mile
Establishing urban afforestation through assisted migration in west Texas
Green Infrastructure Landscape Lab (GILL)
Design and research initiative based at Texas Tech University’s Department of Landscape Architecture.
TANGENTS
11 Palms (2017)
Capturing the daily lives of cherished urban palms in The Garden City.
S.T.R.U.T.
A conceptual framework for municipalities to strategically and incrementally transform tree-poor neighborhoods.
Field Notes from Janiculum
A tandem chronicle from a year in The Eternal City.