Déborah López and Hadin Charbel approach design from various fields and contexts addressing topics related to climate, ecology, human perception, machine sentience, and their capacity for altering current modes of existence.
They are both co-founders of Pareid and Associate Professors at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Practice and pedagogy intermingle at Research Cluster 1 entitled “Monumental Wastelands” where climate fiction (Cli-Fi) is used as a vehicle for engaging various ecologies and challenging current economically profitable models through imminent fictions (if).
Through research and interdisciplinary techno-bashing, projects are narrative driven while varying in scales and mediums, often positioning themselves within a socio-political discourse as a tool for disruption.
