our collaboration + who we are

founded by nathalie attallah + ella st. hilaire, living room studio is a holistic art design practice inspired by the friendship-correspondence between June Jordan and Etel Adnan. learn more about the archive and where we found this historical correspondence, here.

  • is a Lebanese artist-designer with an ethics- centered art-design praxis. at the Harvard Graduate School of Design her work explored anti-colonial methodologies, often
using sand as a collaborative medium to investigate deep time, queer ecologies, and entangled systems. she is the co-author of Errant Design: Design(ing) Without Solutions in Commons in Design (Valiz), and has collaborated with the American Museum of Natural History to critically reimagine its institutional display of dioramas. her films, sculptures, and installations have screened and been shown at Cooper Hewitt, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, DOXA, MIT ACT Gallery, the Beirut International Film Festival (BIFF), and the Kirkland Gallery.

  • is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist, whose research emerges at the intersection of Caribbean decolonial theory, gender/sexuality studies, and film aesthetics. at
Harvard Divinity School, she developed a multi-species theological narrative of the Haitian Revolution that re-imagines liberation struggle through the lens of the ecological and supernatural. her international reportage has been featured in Vanity Fair and Christian Science Monitor, while her 16mm short films and installations have been shown at Carpenter Center for Visual Arts and History Design Studio at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.