Farah Arnaout ’26, Architecture

Farah Arnaout ’26

Major

Architecture

Project Title

Archival Ecologies, Carried by Water

Presentation Link

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Certificate(s): Urban Studies

I worked on three different projects in the Blue Lab related to the impact of water on people. In the first project, Carried by Water: Season 2, I assisted in background research, site visits and interviews with field professionals regarding rising water levels in coastal New Jersey. In the second project, Archival Ecologies, I helped create a visual record, consisting of maps and drawings, regarding stories and artifacts found in ice patches, ice cores and glaciers in North America, Northern Europe and the Antarctic. Finally, the third project involved traveling to Amsterdam to study how people are managing to live with rising sea levels. There, we used interviews, research and site visits as well as photographic and audio recording methods to collect data for the project. These projects gave me the opportunity to advance my skills in research, mapping and conducting formal and recorded interviews with experts in different fields. I was mostly impacted by my visit to Amsterdam as I was fascinated to learn about the growth of cities that started as industrial hubs. In future, I hope to further study different cities with similar histories.