Screenshot of thesis website.

2110

Aisha Kazembe

Thesis Faculty:

Mani Nilchiani, Ethan Silverman, Sam Lavigne

A thesis on climate change, home, and time.

2110 is site-specific installation built around a 3D-printed house with projection mapping, tracing 400 million years of land history, predictive climate modeling, and house lifecycle modeling at one address in the midwest. I researched the site’s geology, urban development, and material record, and speculative future (through applied climate and material modeling) then designed the projection system using MadMapper and Cinema4D to make the history and experimental predictive models visible the surface of the house. I recorded audios of water and recreations of the sound of ice and rock movement, paired with collected sound of a car radio on a drive, all edited together in a homemade ambient soundtrack that alludes to the house’s geological and present day story. The physical installation is paired with a web app that allows people to take the project home with them on their phone to continue exploring the story. 

https://2110-rooms.netlify.app

Work in progress.

Find Aisha at https://aishaa.net .

Aisha Kazembe

MFA design & technology
Aisha Kazembe is a designer and engineer based in New York City. Her work focuses on projects that take complex data and information, and turn them into a story that's interesting and interactive. She creates digital products that move between data and emerging technologies. Her focus has been on climate related topics with a particular interest in climate data and built environment design.