Regenerating Sovereignty
Exhibited in Platform 11: Setting The Table at Harvard GSD’s Druker Design Gallery and published in the companion book. The project examines watersheds as social, political, and environmental boundaries through risk, infrastructure, independence, and military intervention.
In the Juana Díaz watershed, we mapped how settlement, infrastructure, and vulnerability intersect with neighborhoods, hurricanes, seek to dissolve the colonial frameworks and infrastructures which have historically failed to adapt to instability, with regenerative systems that use water management to support redistribution, self-reliance, and local stewardship of water, soil, food, and public space.
The broader research was developed collaboratively by 12 MLA students at Harvard GSD. Presented here is “Hacking Local Water Systems,” which focused at the neighborhood scale and was developed with Luis Flores.
