Settlement Patterns is a response to an artist-run-exhibition bringing together artists and designers whose work proposes, in function or content, alternative solutions for developing greener, more sustainable urban ecologies. Responding to the conventional American suburban landscape that privileges human occupancy in buildings fetishized as a marketable product, this project seeks alternative solutions to unproductive landscapes that absorb time and money, and that also fail to support the broader ecosystems that create habitat for animals and insects, foster larger ecosystems, or allow for the production of local food.

Jury Comments: This visionary project speculates about future ways of inhabiting and working the land simultaneously. Its proposed experimental settlement patterns encourage us to think about new and more sustainable ways of reshaping our landscape and built form.