Apocatopia is a collaborative, climate focused design research practice.



February 2025
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

 January 2025 
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