Tizziana is a critic, curator, designer, and artist currently based in Chicago. She studied anthropology at the University of Chicago and is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture degree with an emphasis in Interior Architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (expected 2019). In approaching design as an anthropological process Tizziana is able to express, in her own work, and derive, from the work of others, a larger narrative structure. This model encourages her to produce projects that are critical of contemporary society. Her work is thoroughly researched and documented, privileging historically undervalued and underrepresented thinkers.
In California’s San Gabriel Mission, there are signs, carefully written in cursive, framed, and placed at a child’s eye level. One frame begins, “Through the course of some 83 years… 1769- 1852…142 Franciscan missionaries spent 2,269 man years, each averaging 16 years of service, to bring into the Christian fold and Spanish civilization nearly 100,00 Indians”. Today, the missions are the most visited historical sites in the state. Fourth-grade students visit missions in fulfillment of the pedagogical unit on state history. They produce models, reports, and drawings based on their research. This project will examine the history and preservation of these sites through conditions and landscapes that they have produced.
