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The Habitat Research Center is very pleased to welcome Dilip Da Cunha for his seminar “Decolonizing wetness: it is where design begins.” In 2017, Mathur and Da Cunha initiated a design platform called Ocean of Wetness directed to imaging and imagining habitation in ubiquitous wetness rather than on a land-water surface. (www.mathurdacunha.com) In 2017, they were awarded a Pew Fellowship Grant and in 2021, the Mercedes T. Bass Landscape Architects in Residence Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In 2020, da Cunha was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Ocean of Rain, which is an upcoming book and exhibition.