I'm a little drunk and I haven't slept more than 8 hours in three days, but that's to be expected given my operative context. Yesterday, I completed my last 'options studio' (choose from a menu of topics). After a while, food, sleep, work, space, and time essentially converge climactically into this blurred tour de-force vis-a-vis rapid modeling of mutliple prototypes generated through 4 months of research. The project was good, created arguments, but you always make peace with those who disagree because the opportunity to even have the debate is a privilege -- without which there is no purpose to what we do here at the GSD.

Now begins my work on my thesis, at once the consummation of thoughts derived or produced after years of reading those who I now sit beside; it is also the nadir of a lifetime's direction. Needless to say, this is a moment to be savored and remembered. It is emotionally charged, but I am ready.

There is a groundswell occurring, the larger wave that followed the few precedents in this set known as landscape urbanism - a process of designing cities and their broader mega-regional context for an indeterminate and more sustainable future. It may seem self-absorbed to talk about it as 'experience' but I see this rather as witnessing something afoot. When the likes of a number of important and infleuntial names, previously unassociated, come to collaborate in untenured but flexible and inquisitive venues, the possibilities for new futures is actually being realized. The way urbanism (which does not equate to city-building) occurs has changed and design has caught up - just in time.

Heaven help me play a part that begins now.