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Democratizing the processes that initiate, build,inform and maintain towns and cities across the Caribbean.
Democratizing the processes that initiate, build, inform and maintain our towns and cities across the Caribbean.
In partnership with regional permaculture experts, Island City Lab has revised HEART’s landscaping curriculum to introduce vocational students and instructors to practical green infrastructure and nature-based approaches for the Caribbean context.
Starting in the summer of 2022, Island City Lab and our partners Arup, embarked on a research exploration of critical water issues in Jamaica as part of the Arup Global Challenge competition.
The last volcanic eruption was in 1979, so there has been an entire generation of people who would have passed on. A lot of knowledge was not handed down during that time
How would you describe Parottee’s landscape when you were growing up, and how did the natural environment shape the way people lived, worked, and spent time in the community?
We often talk about electricity, and roads as the essential infrastructure of Caribbean cities, but language is a form of infrastructure too. Without it, it becomes impossible
Post-colonial Kingston is a city shaped by heat, history, and adaptation, where zinc, a ubiquitous building material, reflects both the resilience of its people and the...
Getting around Kingston is miserable, expensive, time-consuming, and dangerous - but it doesn't have to be!
Beyond the dramatic murals and graffiti that often dominate Caribbean visual discourse, this essay celebrates the persistent art of hand-painted signage—enduring symbols of...
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