Inclusive Ecologies is home to teachers who work across multiple disciplines, including art, architecture, design, technology studies, philosophy, and landscape.

teaching + making

We are developing a pedagogical prototype that answers the question of how to foster real time and full scale testing of such a curriculum through direct application, beyond the confines of the classroom. Drawing on Meyer and Land’s benchmark learning theories (2003), we propose a ‘portal’ that leads to a previously inaccessible ways of thinking about the environment: an outdoor testbed formatted as a grid of quads (1m x 1m x varying depths) that produces analogous habitat, edible planting and datasets on pollinators, aligning with NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act’s sustainable roofs legislation to increase rooftop food production opportunities.  This includes the development of new strategies directly addressing urban agriculture, and its concomitant support systems, such as beneficial insects and soil microorganisms. Our interdisciplinary team brings existing research on soil, remediative landscapes, pollinators, and urban agriculture and technologies such as AI, animal-computer interfaces and environmental sensors into the design and fabrication expertise of architects and landscape architects.