Festival Beach Food Forest is one of my favorite places in Austin. The flourishing nonhuman species found in the space, alongside the wonderful community that maintains it, make it an incredible third space that serves as a balm, both in physical relief of the Texas heat and as a reminder that the world is not doomed; communities carry tremendous power, and their actions can bring about positive change in unprecedented ways.

Gremlin Guide is a continuation of Kenny Ly’s project from 2022, A Gremlin's Guide to UT. In this iteration, the Gremlins are applied to the context of the Food Forest, exploring how we may use them to encourage volunteers to understand the impact of their work in a more profound way and highlighting these efforts to casual or new visitors of the Food Forest.

This is my second project for Festival Beach Food Forest, the first being the Microclimate Citizen Science Experience. This project was showcased at the 2025 Planet Texas 2050 Symposium.