STACY H. SCOTT, PHD
I am a researcher, theorist, and practitioner working across architecture, cultural memory, and adaptive spatial systems. My work traces the tensions between permanence and impermanence, the analogue and the digital, the sacred and the everyday. I am interested in what architecture holds beyond its form — its role as a vessel of inheritance, fragility, and resistance.
Rooted in the Caribbean but working across broader geographies, I study the architectures of transition: thresholds, intertidal zones, temporary structures, digital proxies, and the quiet infrastructures that shape collective life. My research investigates how cultural memory, climate adaptation, and circular economies intersect, asking how we build systems that are not just resilient but regenerative. I believe architecture must move beyond extractive logics toward forms that loop, breathe, and return.
My practice moves fluidly between academic writing, spatial design, visual ethnography, and material experimentation. I care about bottles as architecture, digital shadows as space, and what gets discarded — not just materially, but culturally. I am drawn to spatial softness not as weakness, but as strategy.
I work with film in both 35mm and 120 formats as part of a growing body of research on fragment studies and the aesthetics of repair. Photography, for me, is both theory and method — a way of thinking about memory, trace, and spatial resonance. Alongside this, I co-lead Recess + Theory, a design-research studio invested in critical spatial practice, cultural infrastructures, and speculative civic work.
I build, I write, I teach. I’m always asking: what can architecture remember? What can it refuse? And what might it become when we design with tenderness, not permanence, as our guide?
