New Orleans Water Work

In February 2025, 4th-year undergraduate students travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana with Professor Bonier in a research studio framed around learning, engagement, and exchange.

This studio takes the waters of Southern Louisiana as its starting point, examining the communities & cultures, systems & structures that live & grow within the Mississippi Delta.

Water is the starting point, as the mobile, changing ground for life and livelihood – for cultivation and extraction, but also for celebration and settlement. Students are asked to use their own curiosity and imagination to craft stories, drawings, animations, models, maps, & other artefacts that imagine futures in which fluid paths weave together healthier communities and more resilient home grounds.