The Beat Goes On
Anna Elizabeth Laube and the Spirit of Countercultural Folk Music
Creative technologies and justice-centered eco-narratives about place, power, and living in community with our more-than-human world.
Field notes and creative work on land, housing, climate, and resilience.
Hi, I’m Kati, and my work investigates how we build connections with the land through creative technologies, ecological storytelling, and community resilience frameworks.
Essays
p5.js Blackberry Harvest
My inner dichotomy between an ecological, land-based lifestyle and my relationship with technology were deeply at play as I ideated and executed this interactive coding project.
Mother Nature is Beat
Di Prima does not romanticize resistance in her literary works; she embodies the ferocity of feminine strength.
Strawberry Fields Forever… but make it Vertical Growth
Vertical farming promises perfect berries through engineered control, but tech culture’s obsession with optimization and certainty is ill-suited to the messy, relational realities of growing real food.
The Fix is in on Food
Food-tech boosters promise “modern foods” engineered like software, but this Silicon Valley logic (optimization and substitutionalism) misses the messy, biological, and social realities that actually make food systems work.
If [Love+Money>Money], then is [Love>Love+Money]?
Jessica Jackley describes love as a “desire to really be meaningful and useful in another person’s life." I counter that this taints her microlending pitch.
Active Fires
Monstrous Ecologies: A Guided Relearning
Monstrous Ecologies is an interactive Google Earth field guide that reexamines misunderstood ecologies such as wildfire, poison oak, and other “feared” forces through a lens of reciprocity and cultural memory.
Help's Not Coming: Equitable WUI Resilience
An investigation into how housing policy, economic vulnerability, and defensible space requirements shape access to disaster resilience funding opportunities in the Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI).