About — APOCATOPIA

Cambridge, MA

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AN APOCATOPIAN PRIMER

❻ Spring 2024

⓿ A Primer on the Primer

Apocatopia is a collaborative, climate focused design research practice. Apocatopian practice takes different forms: teaching, reading lists, carbon cheap trips, scenario planning, design research, exhibitions, and built projects. We believe in working across disciplines, formats, and scales. We know good things take time—our practice is in progress through process.

The name "Apocatopia" is lifted from China Miéville's piece The Limits of Utopia, in which the British writer warns that "Utopias are necessary. But not only are they insufficient: they can be part of the system, the bad totality that organises us, warms the skies, and condemns millions to peonage on garbage scree."

We believe that; our late capitalist climate changed world is a Utopia for those with means. We hear Miéville’s words: "the one, the apocalypse, the end-times rending of the veil, paves the way for the other, the time beyond, the new beginning."

Kira Bre Clingen

was born, raised, and works on the Gulf of Maine. She is the 2023 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Kira holds a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and B.A. in Environmental Policy Studies from Rice University. She was a 2016 Thomas J. Watson Fellow, 2021 Planet Reimagined New Futures Fellow, and a 2023 Aspen Institute Climate Future Leader. Her work has been published in Yale Paprika!, LUNCH Journal, The Plan Journal, and the Plant Humanities Lab at Dumbarton Oaks, among others.

Mark Robert Bavoso

is a Northern California native. He holds an M. Arch II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and B.Arch and B.A. degrees from Rice University, where he was awarded the 2016 William Ward Watkin Traveling Fellowship. His professional experience includes work with AW Architects, Michelle Chang, WW Architecture, and OMA Hong Kong. In print, he has served as associate editor for the inaugural issue of the GSD Journal Pairs, guest editor of the GSD's Open Letters #85, and graphic editor of PLAT 7.0 Sharing.

PUBLICATION

Long Beach Is...?

Suburban Large-Lot Tinkerscape

The Sparrow in the Marsh

Cryptomeria: Climate Change, Cultivation, and Culture

Cannabis Communitas

How Fruit Orchards Blossomed in a High Desert Park

How to be Seaworthy

Preppercraft: Speculative Fiction from the Usable Past

To the Disciplinary Divide

Wild Yam: The Rhizomes of the Pill

BSLA Fieldbook