About
Our Beliefs
Growery Collective focuses on enhancing socio-natural systems by cultivating their self-organizing potentials.
In contrast to expert-driven dominant design, we believe in participatory design processes with a distributed understanding of who holds knowledge and what counts as intelligence.
Sustainability springs from cultural structures and (mental) attitudes. We believe in mutualism where human and non-human occupy the same rank within the ecological systems. Therefore we understand our mission as a design of processes with a kind and nurturing attitude towards both. We believe in the importance of humility in design that is rooted in the knowledge that we cannot anticipate the full evolution and impact of the processes we cultivate.
Research Assistants
Aidan Jelveh
I am an Architecture and Art History student at Wesleyan University. I am interested in approaching problems of excessive waste through processes of growth and decay.
Varia Voloshin
Alumni
Alexandra Apodaca
An architectural designer dreaming about spaces infused with nature. Based in Brooklyn, NYC.
Jess Park
I am an industrial designer based in NY and I want to design to improve the quality of life of people and the environment.
Rita Baboujian
An architect and designer, based in NY. I like to experiment with new ideas and technologies to create an impact with my designs.
Collaborators
Oliver Kellhammer
Oliver Kellhammer is an ecological artist, educator, activist and writer. Through his botanical interventions and public art projects, he seeks to demonstrate nature’s surprising ability to recover from damage. His work facilitates the processes of environmental regeneration by engaging the botanical and socio-political underpinnings of the landscape. It continues to evolve and has taken various forms such as small-scale urban eco-forestry, inner city community agriculture and the restoration of eroded railway ravines. He is based in New York's Alphabet City, where he is a part-time lecturer in Sustainable Systems at Parsons, and rural British Columbia.
