Writing

July 15, 2025

Design Museum Essay Contribution: “Living Materials”

Jia Yi Gu contributed the essay titled “Living Systems: From the Geologic to the Metabolic” to the catalogue accompanying More-Than-Human, a landmark exhibition at the Design Museum, London. Published in Summer 2025, the essay explores the entanglements between architecture, ecology, and biological life, examining how living systems operate across scales—from the geologic to the metabolic—in shaping material and spatial practices. […]
July 15, 2025Jul 2025
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May 15, 2025

Contribution to 100 Words for Water: A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary

100 Words for Water: A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary delves into the urgent and intertwined relationship between water systems and human life amidst the escalating climate crisis. Drawing on the United Nations’ assertion that “the climate crisis is mainly a water crisis,” this thought-provoking book compiles over one hundred key terms defined by contemporary thinkers in science, philosophy, politics, activism and […]
May 15, 2025May 2025
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September 29, 2021

Essay “The Budget” to e-flux Architecture and ArkDes

What happens in an architecture exhibition? What, and who is it for? What does it do, and how does it do it? Solicited: Proposals is a shared effort to parse the architecture exhibition, to untangle and rethink its meaning and its potential for today. Through the lens of a single element, each contribution seeks to reimagine the architecture exhibition: what […]
September 29, 2021Sep 2021
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