PURL Lab Report 02

The work from UVA’s Extreme Environments studios was just published in the Phoenix Urban Research Lab’s Lab Report 02. Nataly Gattegno’s article was accompanied my images and work from her UVA students Carrie Norman, Taylor Burgess, Jen Siomacco, Elyse Kelly, Eric Craig and Kevin Hirth.

Excerpt:
“Extreme environments require risk. Our large goal here is to prompt us to critically rethink how we develop the desert, to recognize the limits of current approaches and to explore how our current desert landscapes-El Mirage and the many landscapes just like El Mirage-can be adapted to become comfortable,
productive, and sustainable. But to make this happen, we’ll need to step outside our comfort zones-into the extreme.”