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Weaving EcologiesResearch, Print, Exhibition2025
Error TacticsResearch, Print, Exhibition2024
Building BlanketsRetrofit2024
Waste EconomiesResearch, Infrastructure2023
NOMAS ExhibitionExhibition, Print, Curation2023
Hybrid HousingResidential, Mixed-Use2023
Epiphyte EcologiesInfrastructure2022
Aquaculture CenterIndustrial, Mixed-Use2022
Double HouseResidential2021
Portman PavilionCultural2020
joshua.y.chiang@rice.edu
Brooklyn, NY
From Plantation to Pavilion: Weaving Ecologies in the Plantationocene
Collaborators:
Location:
Completed:
Zhicheng Xu, Lily Li, Kevin Mastro
Venice, IT
April 2025
Exhibition installation at the Arsenale
Project Description
At 135 million tonnes per year, bananas are the world’s most widely consumed fruit. But they also generate nearly 115 million tonnes of agricultural waste annually. From Plantation to Pavilion examines bananas through the lenses of species origins, migrations, and embedded traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), addressing their entanglement with histories of trade and land occupation. It explores repurposing banana waste as a building material, highlighting the resilience inherent in TEK as a counter to the ecological disruptions caused by industrial agriculture. From Plantation to Pavilion envisions a future where architecture and TEK foster equity, ecological balance, and sustainability.
From Plantation to Pavilion is exhibited at the Biennale Architettura 2025: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. in Venice, Italy. Read the press release here.
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Software:
Rhinoceros 3D
Adobe Illustrator
Special thanks:
Zhicheng Xu