Dylan Rollo Roth

Dylan Rollo Roth is a Master of City Planning candidate at MIT, whose research explores how storytelling and design can serve as participatory tools for dismantling opaque processes within the built environment. With a background in architecture, landscape, historic preservation, and urban design, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective to the complexities of urban systems and the social dynamics that shape them. 

His current interest focuses on unearthing human stories hiding within petrocultures throughout the Gulf South. Through his work, Dylan investigates the entanglement of environmental, economic, and social forces in sites of resource extraction, while seeking to amplify community voices often marginalized in these processes. 

Dylan's approach is grounded in participatory design and community engagement practices, with a particular focus on the Southern U.S., while remaining attuned to the broader systems of global exchange. His work is driven by a commitment to making planning and design more accessible and inclusive, fostering a more just and transparent built environment for all.