Wayside collaborated with Landscape Architecture Bureau (LAB) for a one-day activation for DC’s PARK(ing) Day event.

Noting the intense gentrification trends in the city (the Black population  peaked at 75% in the 1970s), DiasFlora used plants to visualize dispersal of Black residents in the region.

A 30-foot long infographic mapped DC's Black population since 1790, and invited the community to take home plants to simulate this regional “diaspora”.

Photographs by LAB.

The DC High Water Mark project is an ongoing effort spearheaded by DC’s Department of Energy and Environment to reimagine the city’s approach to flood awareness and readiness. The studio collaborated with Patrick McDonough to envision a system of markers to be installed on sites within the 100-year flood plain.

In January 2020, we installed the first two of these markers—12-foot tall totems that show color-coded elevations of historic flooding events and future flooding scenarios.

In April 2021, we began planning for the third marker, to be located at The Wharf in DC.