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Living Scaffolding

2026 - Ongoing

This project investigates how organic systems of repair can be recruited to reconstruct or reimagine orders of space and territories rendered uninhabitable. Influenced by Lebbeus Woods' radical reconstruction, this project resists notions of return or preservation, proposing instead a speculative, cross-scale and cross-material ecology in which damage is encoded and transformed into future spatial intelligence.

Using diffusion-based monocular depth estimation, fragmented landscapes of missile fall sites are reconstructed into 3D geometries, becoming a catalytic site given as input for a conservative protein sequence search on growth factors and structural proteins. Terrains are therefore not restored to their original state; instead, they are reimagined as dynamic, evolving environments shaped by a synthetic order of growth and adaptation. 

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© 2026  by Ilana Taieb Hagerty. 

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