I am a director, designer, writer, and producer developing stories, systems, and strategies across technology and culture. My organizational direction focuses on building creating platforms for interdisciplinary collaboration, creative infiltration, and operational infrastructure. My I have co-founded four non-profits, collaborated with and consulted for tech companies, research groups, foundations, and government agencies, and produced hundreds of large-scale public events and experiences.
I lead MA Narrative Environments, a two-year postgraduate course based in the Spatial Practices Programme at Central Saint Martin’s, University of Arts London. MA Narrative Environments is the homebase of Earthsuits—an international R&D platform investigating wearables for a changing planet earth I founded in 2025. I am the Associate Director of Antikythera, a philosophy of technology think tank spun out of the Berggruen Institute. I am currently finalizing Auto: Fordian Parables of Platform Automation, which unfolds a speculative history of planetary platform automation, exploring how the legacy of Fordian logics and dynamics shape automation, autonomousness, and automobility today and to come.
I also serve as intermitent Production Director of Radio Espacio Estacion, a nomadic, translingual radio station streaming 24-hr live marathon broadcasts about mobility & movement while on the move. The shows become podcast series thereafter.
I hold a PhD in Design from University of California, an MA in Philosophy from Duke University and a BA in Literature from the University of Pennsylvania
Before my position at Central Saint Martins, I co-led the City Design Studio at the Royal College of Art with Julian Siravo of Autonomy, a London-based think tank on the future of work. In 2022, I led the team that authored the winning bid for the 2024 San-Diego-Tijuana World Design Capital. From 2014-2020, I worked with The UC San Diego Center for Design and Geopolitics (AI urbanism, platform governance), The UC San Diego Design Lab Automation Team (speculative design for AV futures) and The UC San Diego Design Strategy Team.
From 2011-2013, I served as Director of Research for Provisions Library, an art and social change agency in Washington DC. At Provisions, I founded a research residency program catalyzing social change projects in partnership with national institutions, archives, and agencies. Thematic residencies included Parks & Passages (repurposing the Dupont streetcar tunnels as an Underground passage), Republic (resetting the conditions of constitutional democracy), Copy Rights (proposing a post-IP future), and The Case for Space (exploring futures for outer space policy). Each residency culminated in an issue of Provisional Research, a journal of Art and Social Change associated with GMU School of Art. While in Washington DC, I also curated Near Futures for the second 5x5 Festival, DC’s public art biennale.
From 2011-2013, I co-curated Kulturpark, a series of research interventions into an abandoned Soviet-built amusement park in East Berlin. Kulturpark convened Berlin architects, creators, urbanists, designers and scientists to reimagine the recent ruins as a public architecture. The project laid critical groundwork for the park’s official reclamation from an overlooked no-mans-land to a state-revitalised public park in 2018.
From 2013-2017, with start-up support from the Warhol Foundation, I co-founded and co-directed Common Field, a USA-based network of independent and alternative arts organizations generating shared infrastructures for visibility and viability. Common Field supported 1000+ members through convenings, publications, grants and learning exchanges. The organization was sunset under its subsequent leadership after my tenure.
In 2003, I co-founded Elsewhere, a living museum set within a three-floor seconds store housing a 58-year collection of surplus in downtown Greensboro NC. I developed and directed Elsewhere for a decade, growing the organization from a small startup to a robust non-profit that ran for the following decade. Elsewhere played a critical role in the revitalization of downtown Greensboro and hosted interdisciplinary creators from across the world to live and work in its ever-evolving world.
MA Narrative Environments has developed projects for Nike, Estee Lauder, MANE Fine Fragrance, Firmenich, New Balance, Google Arts & Culture, Somerset House, and others. Antikythera has collaborated with Google-DeepMind, Paradigms of Intelligence Group, Cambridge University, I have collaborated and consulted with The San Diego Department of Regional Transportation, The City of Boston, MIT Media Lab City Science, SOM Architects, SAP Design, Ford Motors / D-Ford, Hyundai, Materials & Applications Los Angeles, and The Rebuild Foundation Chicago. Radioee.net projects have been commissioned as part of the Istanbul Design Biennial, The New Terrains Art Festival Bay Area, the Canadian Arts Council, Miami Art Basel, and the Wiener Festwochen Vienna, amongst others.
My writing has been published in the Antikythera Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation, The Real Review, E-Flux Architecture, AI & Society, Cabinet Magazine, Terremoto Magazine, DIS 2020, ACM Design Journal, and Field Journal. My curatorial projects have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vice, and DesignBoom.
I have lectured and hosted workshops at MIT Media Lab, Strelka Institute Moscow, Neon Foundation Athens, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, Cambridge University, Bauhaus University Weimar, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Institut Hyperwerk Switzerland, and CCA San Francisco.
I have raised over $3M from supporters including The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Facebook/ HSMRC, The National Endowment for the Arts, Art Matters International, and The Open Society Foundation, amongst others.
Earthsuits: Plastic Extinction, Digital Innovation Season 2026, Central Saint Martins w/ LVMH Earthsuits, Digital Innovation Season 2025, Central Saint Martins Planetary Sensing, Digital Innovation Season. 2024, Central Saint Martins Zero: Numeracy Narratives for Urban Resilience for COP27, Egypt w/ Radioee.net & Spatialradio.live The Cairo Charter, Urban AI for Environmental and Social Justice w/ Ain Shams University, Cairo Flyover: Rural Automation & Post-Pastoral Speculation (conference and Flyover Fiction residencies) @ Story Lab, Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, University of Nebraska w/ Ash Eliza Smith Pohflepp in Practice w/ HKW Berlin, Eyebeam, Trust, & UCSD @ postrational.foundation Platform Diagnostics @ Koreo London Radioee.net: Voices of the City @ Central Saint Martins w/ MA Cities & Theatrum Mundi, London Radioee.net: Sonic Drop @ Institut HyperWerk Academy, Switzerland Design Fictions: Future Epidemiologies, Ethical Responses, and Public Health @ UC San Diego Design Lab
Talks
Auto Territories @ TU Delft Transitional Territories, Netherlands Auto @ Cognitive Infrastructures: Antikythera Summer Studio Narrative Machines @ Studio Dot Dot Dot Milan Digital Anthropology & Human-Centred Design (panelist), Holition Studio, London Pervasive Automation: Narrative Machines & Environment-Based Modeling, NYU Shanghai Rapid Realities (panelist) with Samir Bantal (AMO) and Shumi Bose (Common Ground) as part of Another World, Christopher Kulendran Thomas @ ICA London Planetary Perspectives on Digital Technologies (chair) with Reza Negarestani and Dr Betti Marenko, Central Saint Martins Digital Innovation Season 2022 Speculative Histories of Platform Automation at University of Porto, Science & Technology Studies, Portugal Infrastructure Governance @ Newspeak House, London Automated Automobility as Public Service: The Road to a Just Transition with Julian Siravo @ Mobility Metamorphosis, Royal College of Art Questions of Scale (panel chair) @ The Design Museum, London UK The Cairo Charter @ The Responsible AI Forum, Munich, Dec Lunar Denizens: A Welcoming Party(panelist)w/ New School Policy and Design for Outer Space's (NSPDOS), Very Very Far Away, and Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Project as part of the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale The Autocene @ The Terraforming, Strelka Institute, Moscow The Autocene @ City Lab, Paris The Cairo Charter @ Rise Africa, Innovate4Cities (UN-Habitat), Digital Geographies Conference Collaborative Tools @ Hackers & Designers, Amsterdam, NL “Technology and the Future of Care Work” (panelist) w/ Autonomy UK “Platform Automobility” (panelist) @ Geomedia 2021: Off the Grid, Seigen Germany guest critic @ U MIchigan Taubman College School of Architecture Studio w/ Cyrus Peñarroyo