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✰ PROJECTS
  1. Edge Theory
  2. a landscape hosts something
  3. Morning Poems
  4. Eye of Water 
  5. Associations
  6. Body Mass
  7. Poetics of Place
  8. Idle Nature
  9. rāz dār am
  10. enmeshed
  11. Community Power Mapping
  12. Locating Belleville

✰ WORKSHOPS
  1. a landscape hosts something
  2. Chromocore
  3. Poetics of Place
  4. Community Power Mapping

✰ REVIEWS & CRITICISM
  1. Sympoiesis
  2. The Image of All Matter
  3. Infrastructure, landscape and modernism
  4. Sitting in the Chair
  5. Vernacular Culture in the Social Economy
  6. Staging Death and Desire

✰ Textile
  1. Dyeing
  2. rāz dār am
  3. Chromocore

✰ Photo
  1. Architecture
  2. Landscape
  3. Nokia 3310
  4. Miscellania
Mark

Photo by Jorian Charlton
Photo by Jorian Charlton

Darian Razdar is a writer, artist, and independent scholar. His practice is embodied, ecological, collaborative, and research-intensive – often working with poetry, image, textile, and print.

Darian’s titles include: Edge Theory (silverfish, 2025); Morning Poems (San Press, 2023); and Counter-Map: A Poetics of Place (Reflex Urbanism, 2022). His writing can also be found in Commo Mag; Peripheral Review; C Mag; Vallum: Contemporary Poetry; The Blasted Tree; PM Press; Pleasure Dome; The Asian Canadian Living Archive; Upping the Anti; Hearth Garage; Toronto Star; Progressive City; and Metropolitics.

Darian performs creative field research to experiment with unconventional and embodied methods of learning with place. Darian’s field work for Locating Belleville (2018) inspired his Community Power Mapping workshop series (2017-2022), which he facilitated for over 300 participants in 4 countries. Critically re-thinking these projects, Darian created the workshops Poetics of Place in 2022 and a landscape hosts something in 2024.

He was the 2024 Center for Book Arts research fellow, 2025 Venice Biennale Canada Pavilion fellow, and is an active member of the Queer Ecologies Research Collective.

With roots in the Great Lakes and Caspian Sea basins, his practice is currently based in Toronto and Mexico City.

I provide writing, editing, design and R&D services to leaders in Art, Architecture & Design, and Education. Check out my services page and let’s connect to work together!

CV available here



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