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DESIGNING CULTURE, ECOLOGY + COMMUNITY INTO LIVED EXPERIENCES
architecture • urbanism • research • public art
studio [at] miimdesigns [dot] com

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Sediment, not waste. Accumulation, not rupture.
Our work is both manifesto and method: a living archive where material experiments settle into architecture shaped by care, continuity, and transformation. www.miimdesigns.com/blog/2025/12/17/soil-sediment-and-memory-dar-al-islam-hassan-fathy-and-the-architecture-of-layering
#wip #sitevisit #diné
#حسن_فتحی

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#WIP
Tracing lines that once divided, now remembered; exploring the stories, journey, and echoes of the 1947 Partition. History is never static; it moves, folds, and reframes.

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LA Fires Recovery: How to Save Your Trees

Did you know that you can preserve trees on your property after the LA fires? LA County and the Army Corps have issued tree waivers, allowing homeowners to protect their valuable trees.

Here's what you need to know:

1. Act Fast: When contacted by contractors, communicate your decision to preserve trees through the "RIGHT of ENTRY PROCESS."

2. Submit Documentation: Send forms, waivers, diagrams, and lists of trees to be preserved to the Army Corp contractors, ideally before they call.

3. Get Help: Need assistance with diagrams or finding an arborist? MIIM Designs can help! Check LINK IN BIO helpful PDF and more information.

Let's work together to restore our beautiful landscape! 🌳

#lafires #treepreservation #environmentalconservation #altadena #altadenastrong #saveourtrees #californiafires #ecofriendly #sustainableliving #climateaction #natureconservation #greenliving #urbanforestry #arborist #MIIMDesigns

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Manhattan Beach Restoration Project
Collaboration: The Bay Foundation | The State Coastal Conservancy | Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors | Coastal Restoration Consultants | The City of Manhattan Beach

Context
The history of Manhattan Beach is one of dynamic change. In the late 1920ʼs, excess sand from Manhattan Beach was purchased from the Kuhn Brothers Construction Company. Across geomorphological time, the littoral flow along the Western Coast has widened Manhattan Beach in symbiosis with the development of the coastline. Aerial photos of the Pier, over the past one hundred years since the sand extraction, reveal that Manhattan Beach is widening. While this process of littoral flow will slow given reduced natural sediment nourishment, our proposal for a tapestry of microdunes and microcosms extending from tidal line to housing boundary, will harvest wind blow sand
through fencing, erosion control fabric, and through rewilding planting, to initiate a new process of dunescaping. As the beach continues to grow both out and up we will harness the embodied energy of natural processes that work symbiotically with our design, to build a resilient foreshore in the wake of sea level rise.
While the majority of the previous Manhattan Beach dune ecosystem lies buried beneath the cityʼs buildings and streets, the continued growth of the shoreline over the past 100 years seen by the gradual exposure of sand beneath the Pier, hints at the opportunities our design team will catalyse. Our team envisions a strong sensory narrative that engages the ephemerality of the seasons and cycles that have continued to remake the shoreline throughout time, including the growth of new territory seaward and new topography skyward.

Through a four technique process:
1. Dune Nourishment,
2. Fencing & Fabric,
3. Planting & Rewilding, &
4. Runoff Capture;
our design will generate a sensory spectacle of microcosms within an undulating microtopography of miniature sand dunes.

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We are kicking off the spring season with #chaharshanbesoori and the Persian New Year #nowruz with exciting updates on the project that we are working on with @purplemuseum

As we are working on the developing the project make sure to join in and celebrate the festivities: https://www.cdm.org/celebrate/community-celebrations/nowruz/

This event is part of a Museum-led three-year planning project to develop an exhibition and annual cultural event celebrating the holiday Nowruz.

JUMPING OVER THE FIRE

In the 16th and 17th centuries at the moment the Nowruz was called, there was huge commotion: Firecrackers, muskets and cannons were fired, and bands played music. Shouts of joy filled the air and wild rue (isfand) was sprinkled into the fire so that the air would smell pleasant.

As early as a century ago, Nowruz was celebrated on the last Wednesday before the New Year by lighting bonfires. People would jump over these fires while saying “my yellowness to you and your redness to me.” This phrase symbolized the letting go of ailments (“my yellowness”) and the invitation to good health (“your redness to me”).

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@purplemuseum
@beshkandance
@nioshadanceacademy
@iraniandiasporastudies
@iranianstanfordalumni
@stanfordpsa
@allianceforiranianstudents
@iranian.students.ca
@parsequality

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Flying into #LAX for #frieze and the #Oscars?
Make sure to look out the window while on the @delta runway. #MIIMDesigns #WIP

“Land locked at one of the prominent spaces of Southern California, El Segundo is one of the main cities that one witnesses upon their arrival. Filled with a rich historical context of a land that was previously owned by corn farmers, later turned into a refinery town, through Chevron. We ask ‘How do we want the future gateway, for the city of El Segundo, to be representative of the community? And, how do we create: Wayfinding, Community, and Ownership?’ We strongly believe that the combination of strategic planning, creative programming and thoughtful transformation of the site will bring a renewed sense of relevance to this gateway.” – Maryam Eskandari

#MIIMDesigns
#WIP
@friezeofficial
#friezla

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We are pleased to announce that Maryam Eskandari will be one of the collaborators with The Field Office Workshops for founding and supporting new site-specific practices. The workshops are to develop new forms of grounded practices, from innovative digital methods to alternative approaches to design. Collaborators work with landscapes that have impacted change, recognizing that new situated approaches are needed to address emerging challenges, from community action to climate justice. Employing combinations of digital technologies, material techniques, and social methods, the workshops aim to forge new landscape relations from the ground up. Following Donna Haraway, the workshops argue for “politics and epistemologies of location, positioning, and situating, where partiality and not universality is the condition of being heard to make rational knowledge claims.” [1]

[1] Haraway, Donna. 1988. ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.’ Feminist Studies vol. 14, nr. 3, pp 575-599.

#fieldofficeworkshops #sitespecific #situated #futurepractices

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As the clock struck midnight on August 15, 1947, celebratory shouts of freedom from colonial rule were drowned out by the cries of millions frantically making their way through the corpse-littered landscape of nascent India and Pakistan. After more than one hundred years of British East India Company rule and an additional 90 years of the British Raj, the Indian subcontinent had finally achieved Independence. What should have been a moment of crowning triumph after years of anti-colonial struggle was indelibly marred by unimaginable violence and bloodshed. Up to two million people lost their lives in the most horrific of manners. The darkened landscape bore silent witness to trains laden with the dead, decapitated bodies, limbs strewn along the sides of roads, and wanton rape and pillaging. Memories of tragedy and celebration mark the 76th anniversary of Independence from British Raj in #India , #Pakistan and #Bangladesh . Through excerpts of oral histories preserved in The @1947partition Archive, #throughlinenpr #throughline done by @asma_journo @uscshoahfoundation and the generous research grant by @us_imls ; @_miimdesigns will use design as a tool and explore the darkened landscape that bore witness to India’s cultural legacy being divided. We will investigate the role of history, politics, religion, racial and class division that resulted in 2Million deaths and 14Million refugees. Within the built environment, architecture + landscape architecture has been said to perform as a mnemonic device. Other important dates (via @1947archive) for #1947Partition: August 13- Radcliffe Line was finalized August 14- Pakistan’s Independence Day August 15- India’s Independence Day August 17- Radcliffe Line was made public.

#india #1947 #1947partition #history #california #miimdesign

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To gain a better understating of the roles that both architects and landscape architects play in creating an equitable resilient future, we have to rethink the foundation of ecological education and learn to design critically in the way that the original care-takers of our land, the indigenous tribes, have done by invoking and designing consciously for the next seven generations[1]. In theory, architecture should be designing, building and developing through landscape urbanism and developing the urban environment by shrinking city sprawls and suburbanization and cultivating stewardship through social-ecological transformations that reestablish human-ecosystem relationships. The case study presented above, researched the damage caused by a developer in 2008 where they illegally cut down more than 300 Coast Live Oaks for residential development. Through the partnership between @_miimdesigns and @ca_conserve @nature_org . We began our exploration in the summer of 2020 by asking critical questions about the Mediterranean biome, which is among the most imperiled globally[2] and is recognized as a biodiversity hotspot, with high endemic species diversity and endangerment.

Initial investigations examined the preserve in order to establish a baseline of understanding through the lens of ecological urbanism. Coast Live Oaks provide evergreen, drought tolerant and fire-resistant mainstay in Dangermond Preserve’s woodlands. They grow in the Uplands, by the Coast and on slopes aspects. Their phytoremediation within their area above and below the soil are important for keystone species. These Oak woodlands are hope to honeysuckles, sages, 23 species of native grasses and even poison oaks – all will play a key role in which the flora and fauna depend on them. While acorn production varies year by year, the animals that depend on them for food, in a reciprocal relationship, help distribute the seeds all across the Preserve.

#MIIMDesigns #TNC #Nature #Climatechange #Climate #Earth #Planet #Architecture #California #SantaBarbara #Mapping #Digrams #UrbanPlanning #Site #ArchitectureDesign #Archilovers #archdaily

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The New Day Initiative (NDI) is a planning grant proposal to lay the groundwork for the “Nowruz Around the World” exhibition for children and families about the ancient Persian festival of Nowruz. This exhibition holds potential to build connections among the many nationalities and cultures that trace their heritage to Persian roots, while also educating others about Persian culture. CDM has partnered with a nationally-known designer of cultural exhibitions, @_miimdesigns MIIM Designs llc, to engage our region’s diverse communities in design/development of an authentic, experiential 2,500 sf traveling exhibition highlighting what it means to be Persian through the festival of Nowrooz.

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As we celebrate #womenshistorymonth and #internationalwomensday we want to pause and honor these #architectsofimpact profiled in @hunkerhome for leading the discourse.
#embraceequity #miimdesigns

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Happy Earth Day! Join us for the next few posts as we explore Capstone Thesis Studio: Where the Wild Things [Are], sponsored by TNC Dangermond Preserve of @ca_conserve @nature_org and led by Professor Maryam Eskandari @miim_esk of @_miimdesigns. This studio explore themes of connectivity, resilience, and landscape infrastructure through the particular lens of the lens of wildlife, amphibians, pollinators and microbes in and around the state of California to preserve the last pristine place in the state as a sanctuary for our eco-system.

#earthday
#earthday2022
#gogreen
#environment
#environmental
#cleanandgreen
#recycle
#climatechange
#saveourplanet
#savetheplanet
#loveearth
#biodiversity

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