The Return Lab
This project is a public-led ecological restoration project that redefines architecture as a time-based and participatory system. Through the making and deployment of biodegradable floating platforms constructed from seaweed, mycelium, and coir, it restores fragile brackish ecosystems while engaging people in collective action. Operating at a landscape scale, the project functions as an infrastructural framework that supports ongoing material production, deployment, and ecological processes. As these platforms dissolve, they regenerate environmental conditions, enriching water and soil, supporting habitat formation and leave behind living traces. Over time, these traces form a shared memorial shaped by participation, memory, and continuous ecological change.