I am a landscape architect, urban designer, visual artist, and writer. This site is an evolving documentation of my growth.

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Founder Studio Site and Seek









01 Tableau

Impressions and aspects of views.




Collage
Riso
Drawing






02 Hindsight

Five years of branding for Hindsight, an urban planning conference that focuses on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented.




Graphic Design
Branding
Exhibit 




03 99 Cents

An art-based inquiry project to make visible discount stores, a ubiquitous but oftentimes invisible part of city landscape.




Exhibit
Zine
Writing
Workshop



04 Public Space + Infrastructure

13+ years experience at the intersection of urban landscape, resilient infrastructure, and equitable design.



Landscape Architecture
Urban Design
Community Engagement



05 Partnering with Community

Design projects partnering with community groups.  



Design
Community Partnership
Project Management




06 Industrial Chinatowns 

A virtual exhibit and zine project to re-imagine the dominant narrative on Chinatowns as places of consumption, illuminating the “hidden” materials, labor, and economies that enable New York’s manufacturing and construction industries.
 



Exhibit
Zine






07 A Walk Through Flushing

The layered histories of Black and Asian communities in the Queens neighborhood.




Writing
Illustration
Collage





08  Site and Seek

Vignettes of landscape and cities. Architectural gems, attractions, everyday spaces encountered in my walks and travels.



Collage
Riso
Illustration
Drawing
Photograph



09  Seeds and Memory

Seeds and Memory delves into food as a secret language of the Asian diaspora, a symbol of sisterhood, a source of community enrichment, and a counterforce to the undervaluation of culinary traditions, challenging food’s role in shaping racial and cultural hierarchies. 



Exhibit
Writing
Drawing



10 Very Brief History of [Objects]

Little zine depicting the world through seemingly normal objects in our lives and how they are interlinked with trade, colonization, and appropriation with art and archival research.



Zine
Riso 
Inquiry-Based Art



11 Creative Restoration

Engage community in collective public spaces centering on community creative practices.


 


Graphic Design
Community Partnership





12 Together Resilient

Together Resilient is a women-led organizing effort to marshall creative community-centered financial, organizing, and design strategies to uplift and support those most at risk who are taking action to build resilience in their communities.  



Research
Strategy



13 Weave

Striations. Mud. Shore. Ice. The texture of hard lines and fluid edges.




Collage
Riso
Illustration
Drawing



14 Prefaces

A creative and practical guide that prepares young and underrepresented planners for their entry into the planning profession.



Graphic Design
Publication
Interview





gloriakwlau@gmail.com