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 Unpredictable Atmosphere

Hurricanes are immense systems of water vapor and energy, embodying the inherent uncertainty of our atmosphere. These storms, driven by complex interactions between temperature, moisture, and wind, have paths and intensities that can be anticipated only to a degree. As hurricanes gather strength, their behavior reflects the chaotic nature of atmospheric systems, where small changes can lead to dramatic outcomes...




Term Critcial Zone

Bruno Latour explores the concept of the Critical Zone in Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018) and Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth (2020), developed in collaboration with scientists. He describes the Critical Zone as a fragile, thin layer of Earth where life, human activity, and environmental processes intersect...

 


Term Internet of Things

The Internet of Things refers to a network of interconnected devices—from personal devices like phones and computers to environmental sensors and weather instruments—that communicate and exchange data over the internet. By enabling real-time data collection, IoT enhances our ability to monitor atmospheric and environmental conditions, providing valuable insights for climate science and weather forecasting...



Term New Climatic Regime

Introduced by Bruno Latour in Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (2017), this term describes a transformative period in which climate change fundamentally disrupts long-standing political, social, and environmental frameworks. In the New Climatic Regime, traditional assumptions about nature’s stability and predictability are challenged...



Term Stay-Out Zones

In spectrum management, Stay-Out Zones are designated frequency bands allocated to prevent interference between different users, applications, or technologies. These zones play a crucial role in maintaining clear communication channels for specialized uses, particularly in protecting scientific and environmental monitoring from interference by commercial telecommunications like 5G networks...