Aroussiak Gabrielian Lecture

AROUSSIAK GABRIELIAN LECTURE

Thursday, September 21

Aroussiak's lecture will begin at 7:00 pm in the Forum, Academic Wing, Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Campus

Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90045

The lecture and parking are free and open to the public.

Aroussiak Gabrielian, PH.D, FAAR

Aroussiak Garrielian is an environmental designer and bioartist with training in architecture, landscape architecture, and media arts.  She is Director of Design at FOREGROUND DESIGN AGENCY,  a transdisciplinary design practice operating between the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and the arts.

Her research utilizes expanded media and methods to develop new ways of engaging with the spatial, situational, temporal, and tactile phenomena of landscape. As part of FOREGROUND, Aroussiak deploys design methodologies that use future scenarios as tools to better understand the present and that use design as a means of speculation. Prior to initiating her own practice, Aroussiak worked at Snøhetta in New York City on various architectural and landscape architectural projects including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion and the Guadalajara Museum of Environmental Science.

Aroussiak is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and a consultant for futures oriented design work.

Aroussiak is presently Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at the USC School of Architecture, and Affiliate Faculty of Media Arts + Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She recently launched and currently directs the Landscape Futures Lab, which serves as a design-research incubator for climate innovation and imagination.