Founded in 2010 by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, Design Earth is a research practice that engages the medium of the speculative architectural project to make public the climate crisis. It is a recipient of the League Prize for young architects and designers from the Architectural League of New York (2016) and two ACSA Faculty Design Awards (2014, 2017).

Ghosn (b. 1977, Lebanon) is an associate professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jazairy (b. 1970, Algeria) is an associate professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Their work — as architects and educators — charts how technological systems have transformed the earth and imagines ways of living with legacy geographies such as oil fields and landfills on a damaged planet. Together they have authored Geographies of Trash (2015), Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2020), and The Planet After Geoengineering (2021). They were also founding editors of the Harvard Graduate School of Design journal New Geographies, for which they edited the “Landscapes of Energy” and “Scales of the Earth” issues.

Exhibited internationally, Design Earth has done commissioned projects for Glasgow Science Centre (2021), Bauhaus Museum Dessau (2021), the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016, 2018, 2021), and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2017); its work has also appeared in shows at Triennale Milano, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Matadero Madrid. Design Earth’s project After Oil is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.