G U E S T H O U S E

G U E S T H O U S E @ The Brick Hill Plant Lab | Brick Hill, Baltimore MD | 2024 - present

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G U E S T H O U S E is an emerging conceptual and community practice led by the Brick Hill Plant Lab, a research laboratory established in 2019 to pursue care and cultivation for social and civic change through spatial, horticultural, and place or land-based inquiry. The Brick Hill Plant Lab invests in land, place, and community on Brick Hill and beyond. G U E S T H O U S E operates from a three-story, 1800 square foot brick duplex built c. 1830 (with studio addition constructed c. 1991) on Brick Hill in Baltimore City’s historic Jones Falls River Valley. Launching in 2025,
G U E S T H O U S E seeks to open access and expand approaches to place and land-based research by hosting individuals and groups committed to alternative practices, methodologies, forms, or design.

G U E S T H O U S E invests in intellectual and community exchange via our Researcher-In-Residence program. We support local and visiting practitioners in support of applied research and realized or unrealized projects. The Researcher-In-Residence program was initiated to encourage forms of place and land-based practice by providing space and time and a network of support and exchange to residents [guests]. G U E S T H O U S E aims to expand …

• the community of place and land-based research in Baltimore City and beyond by providing opportunity to individuals and groups currently excluded from professional practice, grassroots exchange, or alternative methods.

• the methods by which landscapes, creative production, and communities are built and understood by investigating alternative and interdisciplinary approaches for research, engagement, and making.

• the temporal or hierarchical framework of research and production by prioritizing investigations that are in sync with landscape or place time, in alignment with personal or environmental cycles.

One of the primary objectives of the Researcher-in-Residency is to develop a more expansive and inclusive ecosystem of place and land-based designers, thinkers, makers, and cultivators currently outside of or constrained by conventional professional practice. With this in mind, we are open to substitutions, amendments, rethinking, retooling, adding, or subtracting to all phases of the research-in-residency practice. Like research,
G U E S T H O U S E is evolving in real-time.