Seattle One

Lordy Rodriguez’s Seattle reimagines the city’s landscape by stripping away its known history and urbanizing it under alternative influences: Indigenous, immigrant, and colonizer perspectives. Inspired by Louise Bennett-Coverley’s poem “Colonization in Reverse,” he questions who shapes a city’s identity by introducing new city centers and various degrees of urbanization—or even its absence. His Seattle envisions development as a conversation between these perspectives, where power shifts and cultural influences blend to redefine place and purpose.