We Are Only Temporarily Not Soil | Aroussiak Gabrielian | TEDxLittle Armenia

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If extinction is inevitable, what would it mean to design it ethically? Aroussiak Gabrielian confronts modern design’s obsession with stability, control, and permanence. Through rivers, maps, breath, and the human body itself, she reveals how we freeze living systems into simplified images — and then wonder why they fail. Moving between ecological science, ancestral knowledge, and speculative prototypes, she reframes design as metabolic participation — an ongoing exchange within systems that exceed us. Her provocation is both unsettling and urgent: the future of design is not about preservation at all costs — but about learning how to participate responsibly in cycles that will outlast us.

Aroussiak Gabrielian, Ph.D., FAAR, is an award-winning designer, scholar, media artist, and professional futurist. She is Founding Design Principal of Foreground Design Agency and Director of the Landscape Futures Lab at the University of Southern California, where she leads transdisciplinary design-research on environmental futures for a planet in flux, combining futures methodologies with ecological systems thinking. Trained as an architect, landscape architect, and media artist, Gabrielian develops speculative installations and spatial prototypes that invite new forms of collaboration between people, technologies, and the more-than-human world. Previously a Lead Designer at Snøhetta, she contributed to major cultural projects including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion and the Guadalajara Museum of Environmental Science. A sought-after consultant, she has advised on projects for Nike, Ford Motor Company, and Google Research. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Receive SMS online on sms24.me

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