Apocatopia is a collaborative, climate focused design research practice.
Kira leads a public workshop on place-based scenario
planning titled, "Long Beach Is...? Long Beach Could Be...?" in
collaboration with TownGreen at the Public Library in Rockport,
Massachusetts
Kira presents a conference session, "Place-Based Scenario
Planning: Adapting to Coastal Climate Change" at the Lincoln Institute
for Land Use Policy's Consortium for Scenario Planning Conference in
Deerfield Beach, Florida
June 2024
Kira shares an artist talk titled, “Climate Landscape
Literacy” at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island, New York
January 2024
Kira's work with Edyth Jostol on Cryptomeria cultivation in Japan is included in the Forest/Futures
group exhibition curated by Anita Berrizbeitia in the Druker Design
Gallery at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge,
MA
November 2023
Kira, Nidhi Shashidhara and Cyrielle Noel are invited to present, "Preservation
through the Lens of Climate Change,” at the National Trust for Historic
Preservation Past Forward Conference in Washington, D.C.
October 2023
Kira is the chair of the Student-Led Session, "What is Left Behind?" as part of the Setting the Course: Future Core Studio Pedagogies in Landscape Architecture symposium organized by Rosalea Monacella at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts
January 2022
Mark and Kira co-teach Architecture III: Core III Studio – APOCATOPIA:
An Oceanographic Research Institute for the End of the World As We Know
It at the Boston Architectural College in Boston, Massachusetts