Rose Florian is a Black Puerto Rican architect and artist interested in radical world building centered in decolonial practices. In her work she explores the intersection between race, colonialism, and feminism as a gateway to understand deep rooted systems that shape today’s communities. She believes that design can have a unique ability to disrupt hierarchical structures to provide spaces for those who are misrepresented. Rose has a Masters in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her current research, Unearthed Spaces, focuses on the unrecognized building practices brought to the Caribbean by enslaved African technologists. She explores the multiplicity of her identity through non-narrative video, performance, and sculpture. The work is not forced into existence. It comes in visions that are materialized as performance pieces where she becomes the main character. This allows her to live in a world that is constantly deconstructing the limiting and restrictive narratives of self to give space for expansive and ever-changing existence.