Sawyer Seminar Workshop exploring counter-political imaginaries with a group of faculty and students from politics, anthropology, design, photography, international relations and other fields. Sawyer Seminar Workshop exploring counter-political imaginaries with a group of faculty and students from politics, anthropology, design, photography, international relations and other fields.
A Larger Reality. An essay for What Purpose: essays on design education celebrating 40 years of the Sir Mischa Black Awards, edited by Mary V Mullin and Christopher Frayling. What if our approach to design education is wrong? What if educating designers to work with prevailing economic, social, technological and political realities — designing for how the world is now, has become a convenient conceit? A Larger Reality. An essay for What Purpose: essays on design education celebrating 40 years of the Sir Mischa Black Awards, edited by Mary V Mullin and Christopher Frayling.
Overview of the Floyd Bennett Auxiliary Reality Zone. A sort of anti-futures facility. Overview of the Floyd Bennett Auxiliary Reality Zone. A sort of anti-futures facility.
ML Generated Impossible Object (Spread from Booklet) / Part of The Many Worlds Working Group ML Generated Impossible Object (Spread from Booklet) / Part of The Many Worlds Working Group
The United Micro Kingdoms: A Travellers’ Tale. For Solution 275-294: Communists Anonymous, edited by Ingo Niermann and Joshua Simon (Sternberg). Communo-nuclearists have a refined sensitivity to different shades of reality: possible and impossible, imagined, actual, virtual, and so on. There are many occupations related to this, falling under the general title of Reality Constructor, which includes reality designers, reality producers, new reality finders, and reality fabricators (bottom-up and top-down). The United Micro Kingdoms: A Travellers’ Tale. For Solution 275-294: Communists Anonymous, edited by Ingo Niermann and Joshua Simon (Sternberg).
Reference image - Alexander Graham Bell’s kite experiments Reference image - Alexander Graham Bell’s kite experiments
Sketches in Glass - Interfaces. Part of a residency at the Pilchuck School of Glass. Sketches in Glass - Interfaces. Part of a residency at the Pilchuck School of Glass.
Design for the Unreal World. Essay for Studio Time, Future Thinking in Art and Design, Z33, 2018. Speaking as committed objectologists fascinated by objects of all kinds whether real or unreal, we both find it perplexing, when confronted with a certain kind of object, to hear a person claim that it is not real. Yet, there in front of us is a thing, taking up space, existing, being in the world. Design for the Unreal World. Essay for Studio Time, Future Thinking in Art and Design, Z33, 2018.
The First Design Biennale of Experimental Micronations The First Design Biennale of Experimental Micronations
Catalogue for the first (fictional) design biennale of experimental micronations consisting of student work from our UTransLab class. In Atlas of Countries that Don’t Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States, geographer Nick Middleton suggests that countries as we know them are not the only legitimate basis for ordering the planet. Catalogue for the first (fictional) design biennale of experimental micronations consisting of student work from our UTransLab class.
The School of Constructed Realities (2014). Image: Filip Dujardin. Untitled, from the series Fiction, 2007. Digital photography. The School of Constructed Realities (2014). Image: Filip Dujardin. Untitled, from the series Fiction, 2007. Digital photography.
