PROJECTS

Supervisions Studio
director 2016-present

Function-first, futures-driven design strategy, systems + stories including The Animal Rug Company / Studio Woodgate (Advisor, Strategist), London College of Political Technologists (Co-Founder), Newspeak House London (Councilor), New Inc. / New Museum NYC (Mentor), International Association of Visual Culture, London (Advisor), Artist Housing Guidelines for the City of Boston w/ Raber Umphenour and Flansburgh Architects (Co-Author), Save Starlite, San Diego (Strategist, Digital Systems Designer), Materials & Applications Los Angeles (Board Member) , SOM Architects Compton Transit Oriented Development Plan (Consultant), Plant4 Ft. Lauderdale FL (Futures Strategy), Avon Cinema Providence RI (Consultant), Center for Global Justice (Curator), Field Journal (Co-founder, Digital Systems Designer), Rebuild Foundation St. Louis (Advisor)

Radio Espacio Estacion
co-founder / production director 2011 - present

nomadic, online, translingual radio hosting 24 hour broadcast on mobility and movement
sonic portraits of transitions in spacetime

Broadcast events in collaboration with Apex Art / Fordlandia (Amazonia, Brazil), The ISKV IV Istanbul Design Biennale, The New Terrains Festival / Montalvo Art Center (Bay Area CA), The Forecast Forum (HKW Berlin), The Underline (Miami Department of Cultural Affairs), The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Washington DC), and the Pollock Gallery / New Cities Future Ruins Conference (Dallas). Workshops with Sandburg Instituut and Hackers & Designers, Amsterdam. .

The Design Lab, UC San Diego
strategist, senior designer 2014-2021

I’ve worked with the Design Lab since its founding by Don Norman at UC San Diego. I’ve led Speculative and User-Centered Design research and strategy for projects with Hyundai USA and Ford Motors. I’ve curated and produced The Pepper Canyon Designathon, Design Forward San Diego 2016, and collaborated as a lead on The People-Centric Mobility Design-a-Hack-a-thon with MIT City Science. I worked on organizational designs for SAP Design and the Operations Team.

Streaming @ Calit2 Gallery UC San Diego
curated w/ Ash Eliza Smith + Robert Twomley Jan - Aug 2020

An exhibition about the ecological impacts of online streaming. Online @ streaming.energy. Photos here.

Koreo Design, London
designer-in-residence w/ Chiara Di Leone @ June-August 2020

Working with designer Chiara Di Leone on Scenarios for Civil Society with Koreo, a London Design studio.

Car Wash, A Music Video about Autonomous Cleaning
producer w/ Studio Woodgate Fall 2020

An automated vehicle visits an automated car wash and cleans its body and memory.

Trust.support, Trucking + Labour Residency, Berlin
researcher-in-residence w/ Shadow Price 🌑💰 May 2020

Proposing an international AI Driver’s License and Digital Vehicle Registration as a first step towards a series of standards supporting decarbonization, automatization, and Ground Traffic Coordination.

DIRECTION / CURATION

Common Field, A Network of Independent Artists’ Organizations
co-Founder, co-director 2013-2017

In 2013, I was joined five other arts leaders aspiring to leverage capacity for independent arts organizations across the USA and beyond. With Abby Statinsky and then Courtney Fink, I co-directed Common Field’s membership, infrastructure, governance, and communications for its founding years of becoming an official organization, now 1000+ members strong. Read the Common Field Annual Report during my tenure here.

Provisions Library, Art and Social Change Agency, Washington DC
director of research 2011-2013

With Don Russell, I co-founded Provisions Research, a research platform hosting creative residencies in collaboration with organizations, archives, and museums across DC and a publishing platform for sharing the work, and programs supporting the intersection of art and policy across DC. Collaborators included The Goethe Institut Washington DC, The National Air and Space Museum, The Sunlight Foundation, and the US Patent Office. Read the catalogs here.

Kulturpark, Re-awakening an Abandoned Amusement Park, Berlin
co-curator 2009-2012

Spreepark, nestled in the forests of Berlin’s Treptow Park, was a rare site for sensation and exchange in Soviet Berlin. After the fall of the wall, fairground entrepreneur Norbert Witte took over the park, investing in expansion and development, and soon faced bankruptcy. After a series of escapades involving a shipment of cocaine on a magic carpet ride, roses planted outside of his son’s Peruvian jail cell, and a divorced family living on opposite sides of an amusement park, with the owners fenced in and city inhabitants locked out the condition of the land and the rides faced a legal paradox. While ravers and jumpers regularly jumped in to play amidst the occupied the ruins, Berlin development dreamt of loft condos, trees grew amidst amusement machines frozen in time, and the city of Treptow thought of the space as an eyesore and scourge rather than a place worthy of rehabilitation. Kulturpark assembled Berlin-based architects, artists, designers, and neighbors to rethink these lands as a public park—encountering an incredible series of debacles along the way. Three years later the visions seeded there came true, and Grun Berlin (the main parks and recreation in Berlin) is now converting the lands into a public park.
Read the PDF Storybook and Online Publication. Press in DesignBoom and the New York Times.

Near Futures, Public Exhibition for the 5x5 Festival, Washington DC
curator 2013

As one of five curators for Washington DC’s 2014 Public Art Biennial, I worked with five artists to create works considering the impact of national policies on the district in which they are conceived. The festival projects included Antidiluvian / The Floating Lecture Series by Mia Feuer, StatueVision by Ali Momeni, Looking Back to See Forward by Dignidad Rebelde, Daylight Savings by Agustina Woodgate, and Enkutatash by Jace Clayton.
Catalog. Review in The Seen Magazine Chicago.

Elsewhere living museum from a three-story former thrift store
co-founder, co-director 2003-2013 (Current Board of Directors)

In 2003, George Scheer and I wandered into his grandmother’s old surplus store, a three-story, 12,000 sq. ft. building in sleepy downtown Greensboro NC that had been abandoned since 1997 and filled to the brink with thrift, seconds, and surplus. We moved into the old store, declared nothing for sale, and started re-organizing its things to build a collaborative world. We invited artists, designers, and creatives from far and near to join us on residencies, endlessly transforming the store as a living installation. We transformed the buildings architectures and restored the building, hosted thousands of programs to connect international creatives and local communities, and built a budget that started with a 5K investment to a 350K/ annual 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Thanks to the collaborations of artists, neighbors, donors, and friends, we built a collaborative world for constant reinvention of the relations between people and things, waking up Greensboro in the process.