Monica Hutton

Material Storytelling and Chemical Worldmaking (winter 2026) School of Cities Multidisciplinary Urban Graduate Seminar (MUGS) University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design This course addresses trans-scalar material storytelling and chemical worldmaking through connections between built environments, sciences, and arts. Buildings, landscapes, and urban environments act as media for the embodiment, release, and transfer of persistent chemicals and critical minerals across planetary boundaries in ways that shape future conditions and involve diverse disciplines. These material changes impact vast geographies that blur domestic and wild binaries, bring uncertainty to biological health, and raise deep questions for practices of preservation and conservation. The aim of this course is to build shared knowledge and imagination across allied disciplines through multi-format material storytelling to strengthen collaborative responses to complex urban issues that are not readily visible. Sessions introduce contemporary material research, environmental inequities and impacts related to contaminants, the role of geography, environmental media and urban development in chemical distribution, representational formats, and discussions of care and response. @uoftcities @uoftdaniels @uoft

“A World Previous to Ours” Beginning with the Mastodon tooth drawing through which Georges Cuvier articulated his theory of extinction, DESIGN EARTH constructs a sectional model of a stratified earth, into which is inserted a series of cavities that bring attention to missing narratives from the historical record. You can listen to the fable, narrated by Sylvia Lavin at andotherfables.org 1. Big Bone Lick 2. Niagara Femur 3. Monticello Jaw 4. White House Fangs 5. Menagerie Trunks 6. Evolution Ribs 7. Mission Extinction DE Project Team: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy; Ekin Bilal (Design, 3D Model), Monica Hutton (Text), Jabari Canada (Sound), Qilmeg Doudatcz (web interface), Joyce Tullis (prototype). With Support from: Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Grant Princeton School of Architecture

NODULAR FATHOMING (2025) . . . How much do we know about the ocean? What's it like to inhabit the abyss? Can a rock be the savior of humanity? 'Nodular Fathoming' dives into such questions by addressing, overlapping, analyzing and displaying multiple perspectives—echoes of a delirious discourse that revolves around the extraction of polymetallic nodules from the seabed, and the consequences these processes bring upon the deeper ecosystem. THE FUTURE IS METALLIC [requires further investigation] . . . Team : @sarah.roza_ @burakkorky @monicabritthutton @itsevagrant @___radicale___ Special thanks: @tba21academy @grandeza.studio @castillo_vinuesa @nina_speranda

Mediterranean Sea

Sus AI 🐖 series II 🐽🐽

Sus AI 🐖 series 🐽

rhythm and creeping sounds of oil well pumpjacks and jerker lines from recent visit to Oil Springs and Petrolia 👂 the landscape of the first commercial well and start of the oil industry in North America🛢️

Oil Museum of Canada #EndFossilFuels

rhino walks 🦏 Detroit

First days with Leni Jules Loewen, who arrived the evening of October 23 Meaning youthful light, this name reflects how her life has brightened ours 1. Leni Jules 2. Jenny Holzer - Truism: Raise Boys and Girls the Same Way 3. Ravine Walk 4. Halloween: Calcifer & Soot Sprite 5. Foot 6. Dad 7. KAWS Family 8. Grandma’s Flowers 9. Romni Wools 10. Together

Home stretch ☀️

September vibes from Rhino 🦏