Projects
2023
Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experience in Trinidad and Tobago
The goal of the Possible Landscapes project is to study and document environmental experience in Trinidad and Tobago through field research and the making of a documentary film that would aim to convey various spaces and landscapes and the changes they have undergone in the context of people’s experiences of everyday life and work.
2023
Other Spatial Futures: Lived Experience and Caribbean Spaces
Other Spatial Futures: Lived Experience and Caribbean Spaces is a design project developed in collaboration with architect and architectural historian Iulia Statica, and artist Mario Lewis for the collective exhibition Reclaiming the Center: The Architectures of Global Africa curated by Livingstone Mukasa.
22 November 2022
Roundtable | Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds
A roundtable discussion on the theme of a special issue of the journal Future Anterior – ‘Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds’ – guest edited by Tao DuFour. The event is organized by Tao DuFour as part of his term as Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge, and is hosted jointly by Clare Hall and the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge.
2022
Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds
Tao DuFour guest edits Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds, a special issue of the Future Anterior Journal which is dedicated to the theme of heritage, viewed in terms of its implicit sense as a mode of lived experience that is embodied, and in this way, spatial.
2021 - 2022
Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s well-known phenomenology of perception.
2021 - 2022
Architecture and Federation: Modernism and the Movement for Independence in the West Indies
Architecture and Federation: Modernism and the Movement for Independence in the West Indies explores the role of architecture and urban planning and design in processes of nation building and attempts at regional integration in the former British colonial territories of the Caribbean.
2021
Generative Landscapes
Generative Landscapes is an interdisciplinary research project that investigates architectural, landscape, and environmental histories of the Guianas, with a view to articulating the significance of these histories for theorizing environmentality and guiding responsible action in the contemporary context of environmental crisis.
2019 - 2021
WE LOVE WE SELF UP HERE
We Love We Self Up Here is a documentary film that explores narratives of lived experiences of urban, agricultural, and industrial landscapes tied to colonial and postcolonial legacies of sugar production and hydrocarbon extraction in Trinidad & Tobago.
2019 - 2020
Together at the Table | Împreună la Masă
Together at the Table | Împreună la Masă asks: how will we live together with one another, with ruptures and discontinuities, with past and future infrastructures and generations?
2016
Project ALAMAR | An Archaeology of Socialist Domestic Infrastructure in Havana
Alamar: An Archaeology of Socialist Domestic Infrastructure in Havana is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project involving scholars and practitioners in architecture, comparative literature, and film, examining the legacy of Cuba’s approach to mass housing in the 1970s.