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Kiley Fellow Lecture: Seth Denizen, “Thinking Through Soil: Case Study from the Mezquital Valley”


Algorithmic soil profile from the Bordo de Xochiaca landfill, Mexico City. Drawing by Seth Denizen.

Seth Denizen, GSD Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellows in Landscape Architecture 

Seth Denizen is a GSD Kiley Fellow and design practitioner trained in landscape architecture and human geography. In his lecture “Thinking Through Soil: Case Study from the Mezquital Valley”, which took place on September 21, 2020, Denizen explores the relationship between land politics in the Mezquital Valley and Mexico City. He discusses both his research and the work that GSD students produced in conjunction with UNAM students in a studio course focused on the region.

Watch the lecture here