My undergraduate thesis project is a cultural landscape inventory and parkland proposal. My goals were to build an architectural language that neither appropriates nor erases, to contrast landscape with building program, and to discuss the implications of international collaboration and practice.

Through working with High Atlas Foundation, a sustainability nonprofit in Morocco, I was connected with a career diplomat and Cultural Heritage advocate who shared her passion for a former Benedictine monastery outside Fes that, through interfaith practice, powerfully challenged the norms of its day (1952-1968).

Devoted to African decolonization as it played out in real time, and to maximizing the possibilities of what a newly independent, multicultural Morocco could be, Toumliline is a historical moment now on the verge of a renaissance. What new futures can we generate when we bring together young minds from around the world?