Her research emerges from a curiosity about how the peculiarities of a place – a landscape, a culture, a community – manifest in design decisions. Using speculation as a tool to reconstruct the historical systems, scales, and materials that comprise place, she looks to design to reveal the interconnections between story, memory, ground, and time. Her work, largely based in fieldwork, tracks patterns of adaptability and transformation in the landscape, particularly efforts aimed at mitigating or eliminating change.