Syllabus
Overarching literature baseline for practice.
WRITING INDEX
Writings by Artist
2025 “Mapping Oceania with Hawai‘i Artist Sean Connelly.” Co-authored with Maggie Wander.
Perspectives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 20, 2025 — 13 min. read. Online essay on alternative cartographies and Indigenous Pacific spatial imaginaries.
2024 “Hālau Kūkulu Hawaiʻi: A Home that Builds Multitudes.” Co-authored with Dominic
Leong. In Making Home, edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Joan Wilkinson, 262–266. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with The MIT Press, 2025. Softcover, 304 pp. ISBN 9780262549790.
2023 "Uko'a Loko Ea Fishpond: Digital Mapping and Spatial Analysis of O'ahu and American
Infrastructure Projects Since 1898." Hawaiian Journal of History, Volume 56.
2020 “Our City as Ahupua‘a.” in Value of Hawai‘i 3: The Turning.
Ed. Aiko Yamashiro, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua. University of Hawaiʻi Press.
2020 “Ahupua‘a for Peace” in Inundation Exhibition Catalog.
Ed. Jaimey Hamilton Faris
2017 Sean Connelly, “Waterway,” www.alawaicentennial.org
2014 “Urbanism as Island Living.” in The Value of Hawai‘i: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions.
Ed. Aiko Yamashiro, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua.
2010 Connelly, Sean. HAWAI‘I-FUTURES Interventions for Island Urbanism.
New Media, After Oceanic. www.hawaii-futures.com.
2009 “Alternative Postcards, Views from Waikiki, Ignored.”
Vice-Versa Magazine. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i. Web.
2009 Density x Dispersal: Typological Transformations for a Future Ahupua‘a.
Honolulu: Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i. Print.
2025 “Mapping Oceania with Hawai‘i Artist Sean Connelly.” Co-authored with Maggie Wander.
Perspectives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 20, 2025 — 13 min. read. Online essay on alternative cartographies and Indigenous Pacific spatial imaginaries.
2024 “Hālau Kūkulu Hawaiʻi: A Home that Builds Multitudes.” Co-authored with Dominic
Leong. In Making Home, edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Joan Wilkinson, 262–266. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with The MIT Press, 2025. Softcover, 304 pp. ISBN 9780262549790.
2023 "Uko'a Loko Ea Fishpond: Digital Mapping and Spatial Analysis of O'ahu and American
Infrastructure Projects Since 1898." Hawaiian Journal of History, Volume 56.
2020 “Our City as Ahupua‘a.” in Value of Hawai‘i 3: The Turning.
Ed. Aiko Yamashiro, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua. University of Hawaiʻi Press.
2020 “Ahupua‘a for Peace” in Inundation Exhibition Catalog.
Ed. Jaimey Hamilton Faris
2017 Sean Connelly, “Waterway,” www.alawaicentennial.org
2014 “Urbanism as Island Living.” in The Value of Hawai‘i: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions.
Ed. Aiko Yamashiro, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua.
2010 Connelly, Sean. HAWAI‘I-FUTURES Interventions for Island Urbanism.
New Media, After Oceanic. www.hawaii-futures.com.
2009 “Alternative Postcards, Views from Waikiki, Ignored.”
Vice-Versa Magazine. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i. Web.
2009 Density x Dispersal: Typological Transformations for a Future Ahupua‘a.
Honolulu: Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i. Print.
Writings about Artist
2022 Wander, Maggie. “Making New History: Contemporary Art and the Temporal Orientations
of Climate Change in Oceania.” Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 9 (Special Issue: New Scholarship in New Zealand and Pacific Studies Part 2) (December 2021): 155–178. https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00072_1.
2022 Moses, Kelema Lee. "US Urbanism and Its Pacific Histories." American Quarterly, vol. 75
no. 2023, p. 419-432. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2023.a898171.
2021 Aaron Katzeman, Making Room for Earth in Hawaiʻi: Sean Connelly’s A Small Area of
Land. Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, 20(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/PC220153305 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b79w9v6
2021 Sara Jensen Carr, “Water Is Wealth: Occupation and Erasure in Honolulu’s Urban
Landscape and Its Ecological Future,” Places Journal (forthcoming 2021)
2020 Kelema Lee Moses, “Indigeneity, Contingency, and Cognitive Shifts”, Ardeth [Online], 6 |
2020, Online since 01 November 2020, connection on 15 April 2021.
URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/1171
2020 Carr, Sara Jensen. “Alien Landscapes: NASA, Hawai’i, and Interplanetary Occupation”
The Avery Review. URL: https://averyreview.com/issues/50/alien-landscapes
2019 Schuler, Timothy A. “Why Some Hawaiians Are Fighting a Massive Flood-Control
Project.” CityLab URL:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/the-battle-over-honolulu-s-ala-wai-canal
2018 Tolentino, Blaine. “The Oceanic Urbanite” in Lei Magazine
URL: https://leiculture.com/the-oceanic-urbanite/
2018 Connelly, Sean and Alexandra R. Toland, “Island Urbanism: City As Soil System” in Field
to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene. A Toland, JS Noller, G Wessolek. CRC Press. URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/b22355-61/island-urbanism-sean-connelly-alexandra-toland?context=ubx&refId=66602a3d-24f6-4553-942e-9286e5790385
2017 “Restructuring Place in Hawai ‘i: Jaimey Hamilton Faris and Margo Machida in Conversation with Sean Connelly and Lynne Yamamoto.” Art Journal Open
URL: http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=8766
2017 Katzeman, Aaron. “Three houses our descendants might one day live in.” Summit
2017 Eshraghi, Leuli. “Welina mai ke aupuni o Hawai‘i: Greetings from the Hawaiian Kingdom.” Art Monthly Australasia
2016 Schuler, Timothy A. “Uncovering the Potential of Honolulu’s Hidden Streams.” Next City
2015 Cultures of Copyright. Peter Lang Publishing
Ledbetter, Lehua. “Hawai‘i’s ‘Remix’ Culture: Engaging Postcolonialism and Settler Colonialism in Discussions of Copyright and Intellectual Property.” in Cultures of
Copyright. Ed. Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Martine Courant Rife. New York: Peter Lang.
2015 Grandinetti, Tina. “Re-scape the City.” Summit Magazine Hawai‘i
2015 Goldberg, David. “Datahupua‘a.” Hawai‘i Independent
2017 “Futures Maps” in Our Ocean Guide. Ed. MAP OFFICE
2015 “World Sensors” (Cover Image) in Pamphlet Architecture #35 Ed. Pierre Belanger
2014 Goldberg, David. “Visions of Divisions.” Honolulu Star Advertiser.
2014 Amos, Kelsey. “Sustainable Machine.” Summit Magazine Hawai‘i.
2013 Yamada, Lisa. “A Small Area of Land: Sean Connelly.” Flux Hawai‘i.
2013 Manaugh, Geoff. “Earth Prism.” BLDGBLOG.
2022 Wander, Maggie. “Making New History: Contemporary Art and the Temporal Orientations
of Climate Change in Oceania.” Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 9 (Special Issue: New Scholarship in New Zealand and Pacific Studies Part 2) (December 2021): 155–178. https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00072_1.
2022 Moses, Kelema Lee. "US Urbanism and Its Pacific Histories." American Quarterly, vol. 75
no. 2023, p. 419-432. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2023.a898171.
2021 Aaron Katzeman, Making Room for Earth in Hawaiʻi: Sean Connelly’s A Small Area of
Land. Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, 20(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/PC220153305 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b79w9v6
2021 Sara Jensen Carr, “Water Is Wealth: Occupation and Erasure in Honolulu’s Urban
Landscape and Its Ecological Future,” Places Journal (forthcoming 2021)
2020 Kelema Lee Moses, “Indigeneity, Contingency, and Cognitive Shifts”, Ardeth [Online], 6 |
2020, Online since 01 November 2020, connection on 15 April 2021.
URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/1171
2020 Carr, Sara Jensen. “Alien Landscapes: NASA, Hawai’i, and Interplanetary Occupation”
The Avery Review. URL: https://averyreview.com/issues/50/alien-landscapes
2019 Schuler, Timothy A. “Why Some Hawaiians Are Fighting a Massive Flood-Control
Project.” CityLab URL:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/the-battle-over-honolulu-s-ala-wai-canal
2018 Tolentino, Blaine. “The Oceanic Urbanite” in Lei Magazine
URL: https://leiculture.com/the-oceanic-urbanite/
2018 Connelly, Sean and Alexandra R. Toland, “Island Urbanism: City As Soil System” in Field
to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene. A Toland, JS Noller, G Wessolek. CRC Press. URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/b22355-61/island-urbanism-sean-connelly-alexandra-toland?context=ubx&refId=66602a3d-24f6-4553-942e-9286e5790385
2017 “Restructuring Place in Hawai ‘i: Jaimey Hamilton Faris and Margo Machida in Conversation with Sean Connelly and Lynne Yamamoto.” Art Journal Open
URL: http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=8766
2017 Katzeman, Aaron. “Three houses our descendants might one day live in.” Summit
2017 Eshraghi, Leuli. “Welina mai ke aupuni o Hawai‘i: Greetings from the Hawaiian Kingdom.” Art Monthly Australasia
2016 Schuler, Timothy A. “Uncovering the Potential of Honolulu’s Hidden Streams.” Next City
2015 Cultures of Copyright. Peter Lang Publishing
Ledbetter, Lehua. “Hawai‘i’s ‘Remix’ Culture: Engaging Postcolonialism and Settler Colonialism in Discussions of Copyright and Intellectual Property.” in Cultures of
Copyright. Ed. Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Martine Courant Rife. New York: Peter Lang.
2015 Grandinetti, Tina. “Re-scape the City.” Summit Magazine Hawai‘i
2015 Goldberg, David. “Datahupua‘a.” Hawai‘i Independent
2017 “Futures Maps” in Our Ocean Guide. Ed. MAP OFFICE
2015 “World Sensors” (Cover Image) in Pamphlet Architecture #35 Ed. Pierre Belanger
2014 Goldberg, David. “Visions of Divisions.” Honolulu Star Advertiser.
2014 Amos, Kelsey. “Sustainable Machine.” Summit Magazine Hawai‘i.
2013 Yamada, Lisa. “A Small Area of Land: Sean Connelly.” Flux Hawai‘i.
2013 Manaugh, Geoff. “Earth Prism.” BLDGBLOG.