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EcoRove is a collaborative, multi-media, research-based project examining the politics of critical zones and the livelihood of humans and non-human species who dwell in them. The initiative seeks to engage and expose a broad spectrum of voices and practices that narrate, document, and design the complex relationships that define ecosystems.
Is a Lebanese farmer, ecological architect, artist, and researcher. He is a Year 11 New Inc. Creative Science Track member. iyad’s work explores the entanglements of human and non-human ecologies to address aesthetic and socio-political urgencies in architecture, urbanism, and ecosystems across dimensions and geographies. His research and projects have been presented at the New Museum and the Tallinn Architecture Biennial (TAB). Iyad’s farming practice is deeply rooted in his ancestral terraced fields in South Lebanon, where he gained hands-on experience working with his family. Iyad received his B.Arch from Lebanese American University and his M.S Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia GSAPP.
Is a Lebanese-American artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Lenapehoking whose work uses various documentary forms to explore overlapping stories of war, diaspora, and indigenous sovereignty, her projects (re)contextualize multifaceted attachments between societies and ecosystems. Joseph has had solo exhibitions at The New Museum (2023-24) and Ortega Y Gasset Projects (2016), is a Y11 New Inc. Creative Science Track member, and was a recipient of the Fine Arts Grant from The Arab Foundation for Arts & Culture in 2020 as part of her collaborative project EcoRove. Joseph received an MFA from Columbia University (2016), and a BA from Vassar College (2011). She is part-time faculty at The New School, and was previously adjunct assistant professor of photography at Columbia University.
Is an architect, writer, and curator who works on collaborative projects with institutes and universities, most recently “Mapping Memories of Resistance: The Untold Story of the Occupation of the Golan Heights” with London School of Economics, Birzeit University, and Al Marsad, Arab Human Rights Center in Golan Heights; and Tasmeem Biennial 2022, themed around Radical Futures, by Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was appointed to curate the biennial spatial design. She was previously working on the upcoming 2026 Qatar Museums’ Quadrennial project, a multi-site art exhibition. She is now an Assistant Curator at Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
