Walter Hood is the founder of Hood Design Studio, a landscape architecture and social art practice based in Oakland, California. The studio’s cultural practice is tripartite: Everyday, Lifeways & Commemoration. The three lenses allow the studio to understand the idiosyncrasies of each place and respond with an approach adaptive to the particulars of place and its people. Through this practice the studio strengthens endemic patterns and practices both ecological and cultural, contemporary and historic—particularly those that remain unseen or unrecognized. The resulting work creates new apertures through which to see the emergent beauty and strangeness around us.