Contributors
Kan Likanl000725@gmail.com Kan Li is the co-founder of Metamorphic Zone, as well as a designer and researcher currently pursuing a master's degree at the Architectural Association in London. He has previously worked as an editor and engaged in architectural practice in China. His work explores the intersection of cosmotechnics and architecture within the emerging new climate regime.
Haoge Gan
ganbage@gmail.com

Haoge (Steven) Gan is the co-founder of Metamorphic Zone. He is also a designer, writer, and researcher working across individual, collaborative, and institutional frameworks in Europe and Asia. He earned his Master of Architecture from Columbia GSAPP in 2024. His work traces the intersections of cosmology, technology, and more-than-human agencies, investigating modes of existence within the Anthropocene.
Dr. Catherine Russell
catherine.russell@fulbrightmail.org


Dr. Catherine Russell is a geoscientist at Loughborough University and Louisiana State University, specializing in the impacts of human activity on Earth's surface processes. In 2020, Dr. Russell established the Anthropocene Sediment Network to aid with the interdisciplinary understandings required for a new sub-discipline of geology in "Anthropocene Sedimentary Environments". She went on to be awarded a UK-US Fulbright-Lloyd’s of London Visiting Scholarship in 2022, during which she researched pollutant accumulation in fluvial pathways. In 2023, she received the Roland Goldring Award from the British Sedimentary Research Group for her significant contribution to sedimentology.
Shuhang Cao
sh.cao06@gmail.com


 Shuhang (Clarice) Cao is a researcher and designer pursuing her master’s degree at the Architectural Association in London. Her work focuses on energy and earth transformation in the Anthropocene. As an avid climber and trail runner, she incorporates her experiences and expeditions in mountainous regions with her projects.
Lucia Rebolino
luciarebolino@gmail.com


Lucia Rebolino is an architect and research-based computational designer, currently working as a researcher at Forensic Architecture in London and as a teaching associate at Columbia University GSAPP. She conceives her practice as a space where different branches of science and design can conceptualize, critique, visualize, and provoke new counter-cartography aesthetics. Lucia has also worked at the Center for Spatial Research in New York, exploring investigative projects through data visualization. She has lectured at design schools, including Delft University of Technology, Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, and the Politecnico di Milano and Torino. Her writing has appeared in publications such as e-flux Architecture, ETH Delus, and Routledge. She holds a master of architecture from the Politecnico di Torino and a master of science in Computational Design Practices from Columbia University, where she received an award for innovative use of computing media in design research. 
Kristiina Koskentola
kkoskentola@gmail.com


 Kristiina Koskentola is a transdisciplinary artist, PhD. Koskentola's recent work explores processes of knowledge production, polyvocal subjectivity and the agency of multiple co-actors (human and beyond) often through intersecting material and spiritual ecologies as well as socio- and ecopolitics. Transcultural and monistic worldviews, coexistence, and human relationships with our co-beings and environments are at the core of her practice. For Koskentola, collaborative and embodied processes across epistemologies are important form of reflection. They are a tool for mediating, speculating and imagining decentered, more-than-human and dialogic perspectives among the complexities of entanglements, fragilities, and human failure unfolding between immediate, global, and cosmic processes.
Sheer Gritzerstein
gritzerstein@aaschool.ac.uk


 Sheer Gritzerstein is an architectural designer, researcher and educator. Prior to completing her BArch and MArch from the Architectural Association, she worked as a geographical intelligence researcher and educational sailing coordinator. Her work focuses on navigation practices as well as on the architecture and politics of comfort in the Anthropocene.
Kunlin He
kunnlinhe@gmail.com


 Born 1992 in Nanchang, China, Kunlin He currently lives in San Francisco Chinatown, CA. His practice focuses on the production of East Asian cultural knowledge and theories as well as the relationship between migrant literature, modernist studies, pre-modern intellectual legacy, historical criticism and criticism of technology, exploring these topics through his work of painting and writing with various media. Kunlin obtained an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2016 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018. His work has been included in exhibitions at Power Station of Art (2022) Metropolitan Museum of Manila (2022), the National Taiwan Museum of Fines Art (2021), The Drawing Center (2018, 2019), Headlands Center for the Art (2017), Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (2016), among others. He has been selected as the finalist for the 2019 SFMOMA SECA Award, and 2020 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award.




Note Water Territory

Ancient empires transformed rivers into an instrumental apparatus to maintain their autocratic control. Throughout history, the relationship between human chronicle and natural flux has been deeply intertwined, to the point where one cannot be distinguished from the other...



Term Agency

Agency, as the capacity to act, is essential in shaping the very existence of the phenomena that are trying to document, articulate and mobilise, fundamentally challenging the traditional divide between subjectivity and objectivity. To be a subject is to share agency with others, rather than act autonomously against an objective background...

Term Animism

Referring to Anselm Franke, the notion of animism envisions a cosmos where everything is alive and capable of communication. It challenges conventional boundaries by suggesting that all entities, including inanimate objects, can act as agents or “persons.” This perspective shifts the focus from "being" to "becoming" and questions the ontological separations fundamental to modern Western thought...



Term Cosmotechnics

In the Anthropocene, with the rise of the technosphere, the Earth System has been transformed into a vast technological network. This marks a moment of re-composition for many institutions, technologies, and scientific and intellectual fields. To respond to the complexities of these transformations, relying on current mono-technological paradigms and singular knowledge structures is ineffective...



Term Cybernetics

The emergence of cybernetics in the 1940s declared the end of the opposition between mechanism and organism. The term “cybernetics,” coined by Norbert Wiener for his 1948 book of the same name, originated from the ancient Greek term κυβερνητικός, which is to signify the governance of people. It has multiple definitions but can be broadly understood as the study of control and communication through circular feedback, an applied science spanning diverse fields, which anthropologist Gregory Bateson described as “a branch of mathematics dealing with problems of control, recursiveness, and information...



Term Earth System

Earth System sciences view our planet as a whole, interconnected, and complex system, shaped by interactions and feedback loops that occur through the exchange of material and energy fluxes, drawing on various disciplines such as geology, chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and others. This system is self-regulating and operates across multiple scales and timeframes, embodying the features of life through the coupling between living forms and their environments...



Term Recursivity & Contingency

In Recursivity and Contingency, Yuk Hui argues that recursivity marks an epistemological break from mechanism, signifying a shift toward systemic construction. Unlike mechanical repetition, recursivity embodies a self-referential, self-determining circular movement, where each iteration is infused with contingency, shaping its unique character. Here, contingency is essential since it enriches the system, allowing it to evolve...



Term Sensor

Data gathering, environmental monitoring and simulations are central to Earth Science development, relying on an extensive sensing apparatus that includes remote sensing satellites, radar systems, LiDAR scanners, atmospheric monitoring sensors, optical instruments, and more. Scientific observation goes beyond being a mere direct reflection of objective matters through sensing techniques...
Term Technosphere

Since the mid-20th century's "the Great Acceleration," a new and emerging planetary paradigm known as the technosphere has taken shape, displaying enormous, yet still uncertain, potential. This concept, initially introduced by geoscientist Peter Haff, refers to a vast, interconnected system of material, energy, and information flux and has become a highly dynamic component of the Earth System...

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