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Chris Woebken — Curriculum Vitae

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Commissions & Public Projects

2026
Participatory Art For Society Engagement with Ocean and Water, with Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Célestin Meunier, Matthew Lutz and Jamie Allen, Azores, PT, EU
2018
The Shed, Open Call, NYC, NY, US
2018
Washington Street Installations | Exhibit Columbus, Columbus, IN, US
2018
'Water Futures' A/D/O Water Futures Research Program, commissioned by Jane Withers, A/D/O,  NYC, NY, US
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Exhibitions

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

2017
'Transition Habitats', Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden, curated by Nisa Mackie, Minneapolis, US
2016
'The House in the Sky', curated by Gabriel Florenz, Pioneer Works, NYC, US
2014
'The Society for Speculative Rocketry', Eyebeam, NYC, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

2027Upcoming
'ANIMALS TURN', HART HAUS, with Kenichi Okada, Hong Kong
2026
'Office of Non-Human Standing' presented by Rhizome and Seven on Seven at the New Museum, NYC, NY
2025
'SUNK COST Felicity Ace', DIS 2025, with Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Matthew Lutz, Louise Carver and Jamie Allen, Funchal, PT
2024
'The Air We Share', with Karolina Sobecka, curated by Cornelia Wagner, Dresden, DE. Documentation.
2023
'The Animal Farm Simulator' curated by Jianghong Chen and Zheng Li, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing, CN. Documentation.
2023
'New York, New Publics', curated by Evangelos Kotsioris with Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, MoMA, NY, US
2020
'Countdown', TED Fellows public art commission, with Terreform ONE, Brooklyn, NY, US
2019
'Washington Street Installations' Exhibit Columbus, Columbus, IN, US
2019
'Metro Test Zones', The Shed, NYC, US
2019
'Unselect', Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, DE
2019
'In:Bodied', Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY, US
2018
'The Influencing Machine', nGbK neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, DE
2018
'Water Futures', curated by Jane Withers, A/D/O, NYC, US
2018
'Kreaturen nach Maß', curated by Friederike Fast and Tanja Seiner, Marta Herford, Herford, DE
2018
'Walk&Talk Azores', curated by Dani Admiss, Azores, PT
2018
'A Working Model of the World', The LifeSpace gallery, University of Dundee in Scotland, UK
2018
'Lexus Design Awards', Salone del Mobile Milano, IT
2018
'Open Codes - Living in Digital Worlds', ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
2018
'Human+', curated by Cat Kramer, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
2018
Hacking Urban Furniture. Transition Habitats, Extrapolation Factory, ZK/U Berlin, DE, 16–25 March.
2017
'A Working Model of the World', Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons, NYC, US
2017
'Human+', curated by Cat Kramer, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, SG
2017
'A Working Model of the World', curated by Dr. Lizzie Muller and Holly Williams, UNSW, Sydney, AUS
2017
'The House in the Sky', screening, Spektrum, Berlin, DE
2017
Archived Futures Harvest. Extrapolation Factory with Time’s Up and FoAM, Studio Solipsis, Rabat, Malta, 5 May–23 June.
2016
'Wound', curated by Caroline Woolard, Cooper Gallery, NYC, US. Documentation.
2016
'Digital Illusion', Design September, Brussels, BE
2016
'Holobiont Urbanism', with Playful Systems, MIT Media Lab, exhibited at Palazzo Mora as part of a Collateral Event of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT
2016
'BioFutures' curated by Romie Littrell, The Tech Museum, San Jose, US
2015
'Eyebeam Benefit', Postmasters Gallery, NYC, US
2015
'Soleil Jaune', curated by Benjamin Loyauté, La Poste, Paris, FR
2015
'Human+', curated by Cat Kramer, CCCB, Barcelona, ES
2015
'The House in the Sky', Machine Project, LA, US
2015
'Typojanchi 2015', Seoul, KR
2015
'The House in the Sky', premiere screening, Museum for Arts and Design, NYC, US
2015
'The Rolling Club', curated by Florence Ostende in collaboration with Jean-Luc Moulène, Lyon, FR
2015
'Designs of the Year', Design Museum, London, UK
2015
'Systematic Sampling', curated by M.F. Clarke & M. Simun, Stream Gallery, NYC, US
2015
The House in the Sky — Second Sundays. With Sascha Pohflepp, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, US, 9 August.
2015
VENUE. Exhibition including Venue Instruments, with Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, SPUR, San Francisco, US, 20 August–21 October.
2014
'How Things Don't Work' curated by Alison Clarke, Jamer Hunt, Fiona Raby, Parsons, NYC, US
2014
'Hypersalon' at Art Basel Miami curated by Transfer, XPO Gallery & Hyperallergic, South Beach, US
2014
'Sym(micro)biotics', The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, US
2014
'Future Fictions', curated by Karen Verschooren, Z33, Hasselt, BE
2014
'Reverse Archeology', curated by Yaël Filipovic, CCA, Montreal, CA
2014
'Spitibank', commissioned by Amy Cheung, curated by Helen Homan Wu, Chashama 1155 Event Space, NYC, US
2014
'NYC Makers', curated by Jake Yuzna, The MAD Biennial, NYC, US
2014
'Multiplicity', curated by Marco Antonini, Invisible-Exports, NYC, US
2014
'Wild Posting Futures BBQ', Eyebeam, NYC, US
2014
'Obsessive Sensing', curated by John McKiernan, LEAP, Berlin, DE
2014
'Photographing the Future', curated by E. Ruelfs & E. Lazareva, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, DE
2014
'NighTime-Dreamreal', curated by Benjamin Loyauté, Shanghai Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CN
2014
'The Prehistory of the Image', curated by Hicham Khalidi, STUK, Leuven, BE
2014
'Eyebeam Annual Show', curated by Roddy Schrock et al., NYC, US
2014
'Design and Violence', curated by Jamer Hunt & Paola Antonelli
2013
'Junk Mail Machine', curated by Eva Franch, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC, US
2013
'Prism-breakup', Eyebeam, NYC, US
2013
'NYC Foresight', Spacebuster, curated by Eva Franch, NYC, US
2013
'99¢ Futures', Downtown Brooklyn, NYC, US
2013
'Photographing the Future', curated by Esther Ruelfs & Ekaterina Lazareva, commissioned by the Goethe Institut, NCCA National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
2012
'Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream', cinematography for the MOS team, MoMA, NYC, US
2011
'Bring to Light Festival', curated by Ken Farmer, Greenpoint, NYC, US
2011
'What if...', curated by Dunne & Raby, China National Museum, Beijing, CN
2011
'Landscape Futures', curated by Geoff Manaugh, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, US
2011
'Talk to me', curated by Paola Antonelli, MoMA, NYC, US
2011
'Virtual Futures 2.0', Warwick, UK
2011
'MADE UP', curated by Tim Durfee, Artcenter, Pasadena, US
2010
'between-between', Gallery Between, London, UK
2010
'BIODIVERCITY: 47 Important Ideas and Technologies for the Urban Environment', curated by Natalie Jeremijenko, Washington DC, US
2010
'Demo:Mode', Geneva, CH
2009
'What if...', curated by Dunne & Raby, Science Gallery, Dublin, IE. Documentation.
2009
'Confines', curated by Aaron Betsky, IVAM, Valencia, ES
2009
'Designersblock', London Design Festival, London, UK
2008
'Biennale internationale Design', St. Etienne, FR
2008
'Design and the Elastic Mind', curated by Paola Antonelli, MoMA, NYC, US

Contributions

2009
'An Apparatus for Capturing Other Points of View' by Julian Bleecker / Near Future Laboratory. Conceptual, digital and physical contributor, with Rhys Newman and Marcus Bleecker. Credited in Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5, The Architectural League of New York, pp. 38–39. Exhibited at LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijón, ES. Published credit. Exhibition record.
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Public Collections

2024
MoMA Permanent Collection, ‘New Public Hydrant’ created with Tei Carpenter, NYC, US. Documentation.
2022
Nevada Museum of Art, ‘Venue Instruments and sketches’ created with Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley, Reno, US. Documentation.
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Participatory Programs & Workshops

2026
‘SUNK COST’, Unsecurities Lab, 1-day workshop, with Nathan Jones, Célestin Meunier, Matthew Lutz, Jamie Allen, Uni Lancaster, UK. Documentation.
2025
'Weaving Fabulations', 5-day intensive, with Der-Jang Yu and Taotao Yu, NYCU & NTHU, Taiwan
2021
'Climate Futures', Boys & Girls Clubs, Bronzeville & Rockford, US
2021
'Precognitioning Post-Oil', 3-day workshop series developed with Alexander Klose, 1014, NYC, US
2021
'After Markets Market', 1-day EF workshop, UPenn, Philadelphia, US
2019
'Metro Test Zones', 2-day EF workshop, The Shed, NYC, US
2019
'Specials Programme Think Tank', week-long EF intensive, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, EE
2018
'Pull-Tap Alley', 1-day EF workshop, Mmuseumm, curated by Alex Kalman, NYC, US
2018
'Designing with Biology', week-long intensive, co-taught with Yasaman Sheri, CIID, San Jose, CR
2018
'Testing Hypotheticals', 2-week EF workshop, Queens Museum, curated by Formafantasma, NYC, US
2017
'Workshopping workshops', 2-day workshop, RISD ID, Providence, US
2017
'Design Kids | Future Prototype', 1-day workshop, Cooper Hewitt, NYC, US
2017
'Design Fiction & Digital Fabrication' co-taught with Matej Vakula at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, Bronx, US
2017
'Specials Programs Think Tank', week-long EF intensive, CCA, San Francisco, US
2017
'Panel for Future Special Programmes of the European Union', week-long EF  intensive, MCAST, Malta, MT
2017
'Design Futures Workshop', 1-day EF workshop, Genspace, NYC, US
2016
'Welcome to the Futures', 1-day workshop, SVA Products of Design, NYC, US
2016
'Alternative Unknowns' 1-day EF workshop at 'Infrastructure Space', LafargeHolcim Forum, Detroit, US
2016
Operator’s Manual for Context X. Extrapolation Factory workshop, Cooper Union, New York, US, 5 November.
2015
'Speculative Design and Strategic Planning', 1-day EF workshop, Strelka Institute, Moscow
2015
'Hybrid Urbanism: Kiosk', 1-week EF workshop, Strelka Institute, Moscow
2015
'1-888-FUTURES' 2-day EF workshop, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles
2015
Cyborg, 1-day EF workshop, Biomechanics and Movement Science (BIOMS) course, UD, Newark
2015
Extrapolation Factory, 1-day workshop, Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons, NYC, US
2015
'Craigslist for Barter', 2-day EF workshop, SVA Products of Design, NYC, US
2015
'Future Present', Fieldwork Session workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, US, 24 March. Led participants through speculative prompts to produce a large-scale exquisite corpse, which became the basis for Coastnatural Trail.
2015
'Coastnatural Trail', fictional trail pop-up at the Spring Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, US, 19 April. A sketch built from postnatural species concepts that participants developed in the Future Present workshop, with trail markers along the park trail and a field guide, styled as a fictional 2041 Genentech team-building trip, for studio visitors.
2014
Extrapolation Factory, 1-day workshop, Weimar, Bauhaus University, DE
2014
'Telstar Shopping Network', 2-day EF workshop, Z33, Hasselt, BE. Documentation.
2014
'Biotechnominimarket' 1-day EF workshop, RCA, Design Interactions, London, UK
2014
'Futurematic - Waves of Tomorrow' 2-day EF workshop, NYU ITP Summer Camp, NYC, US
2014
'Wild Posting Futures BBQ' 1-day workshop, Eyebeam, NYC, US
2014
'Futurematic' 2-day EF workshop, OCAD University Strategic Foresight and Innovation, Toronto, CA
2014
'Herramientas Urbanas', three-day experimental urban research and prototyping workshop, Laboratorio para la Ciudad, Mexico City, MX
2014
'The Society for Speculative Rocketry', 2-week workshop, Eyebeam, NYC, US
2013
'99¢ Futures', 1-day EF workshop, GSAPP Studio-X, NYC, US
2013
Film workshop, 1-day workshop, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, US
2013
Film workshop, 2-day workshop, RISD Digital + Media, Providence, US
2012
TBD Catalog — Design Fiction Detroit Workshop. Workshop contributor, three-day workshop organized by Near Future Laboratory, with Julian Bleecker. Detroit, MI, US, October. Workshop documentation.
2012
'Camera Hacking Nightschool', 1-day workshop, GSAPP Studio-X, NYC, US
2012
Film workshop, 2-day workshop, RISD Digital + Media, Providence, US
2012
3-day workshop, Industrial Design, Syracuse University, US
2012
Conflux, 1-day workshop, NYC, US
2011
'Invisible Behaviors', 2-day workshop, NYU ITP, NYC, US
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Curatorial Projects & Publications

Curatorial Projects

2020
'Pohflepp in Practice', co-produced, commissioned by HKW, Berlin, DE. Documentation.
2020
'Postrational.Foundation', co-organized with Stephanie Sherman, Lindsay Eyink, and Trust, Berlin, DE
2017
'Extrapolation Factory: Studio Residency', NYC, US
2016
'Engineered Ecology: Waterfront Picnic', co-organized with Sam Hart, NYC, US
2015
'Alternative Unknowns,' Emergency Simulator, co-curated with E. Montgomery, Apexart, NYC, US
2015
'Variable World', a day-long program of critical history and analysis of the culture of simulation, co-organized with Javier Arbona for Avant.org. Bay Model ranger tour and salon at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, US, 28 March.
2014
'Island Physics', co-curated with A. N. Fischer and S. Pohflepp, Governors Island, US. Documentation.
2014
'The House in the Sky' lectures, co-curated with S. Pohflepp, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, US
2011
'Futurelabcamp', co-organized a series of biodesign un-conferences with Mackenzie Cowell, NYC & Cambridge, US

Publications

2026
'Office of Non-Human Standing' Counter Structural Commons Catalog, Chris Woebken
2024
'Carbon Care Commoning Kit' by Karolina Sobecka & Chris Woebken, developed for The Air We Share, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, curated by Cornelia Wagner and Nele-Hendrikje Lehmann. Story sketches by Caitlin Berrigan, Renan Porto, Dehlia Hannah, Tarsh Bates, Heather Davis and Luis Campos; script interpretation by ariel rosé; scent interpretation by agustine zegers
2023
'Futures Brought To Life - We are no Futurists' by Time's Up, ISBN: 978-3-9505090-3-8
2023
Holobiont Urbanism: sampling urban beehives reveals cities’ metagenomes. Coauthored research article, Environmental Microbiome 18, article 23. DOI: 10.1186/s40793-023-00467-z.
2020
'Deep Unlearning (I)' in Das Ästhetisch-Spekulative, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Sascha Pohflepp & Chris Woebken
2020
'Holobiont Urbanism: sampling urban beehives reveals cities' metagenomes' by Elizabeth Hénaff, Devora Najjar, Miguel Perez, Regina Flores, Christopher Woebken, Christopher E. Mason, Kevin Slavin, DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.07.075093 (bioRxiv preprint).
2019
Pidgin #26 'Some Degrowth Portfolios' p, 188-210 by Carpenter, LeCavalier, Taeyoung, and Woebken
2019
Urban Omnibus 'The New Public Water' by Tei Carpenter & Chris Woebken
2018
Bartlebooth 'Transition Habitats' in Más allá de lo humano by Elliott Montgomery & Chris Woebken
2016
'Extrapolation Factory - Operator's Manual' by Elliott P. Montgomery & Chris Woebken. ISBN-13: 978-1532713354
2016
Avant 'Alternative Unknowns' by Elliott Montgomery & Chris Woebken
2015
Avant 'Variable World: Bay Model Tour & Salon' by Javier Arbona & Chris Woebken
2011
The Future of Writing. Microsoft Research, October. Collaborative publication including work by Sascha Pohflepp and Chris Woebken.
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Residencies, Fellowships & Research Affiliations

2026
Bard Graduate Center, Visiting Fellowship, NYC, US
2023
MacDowell Fellowship, Architecture - Design, Peterborough, NH, US
2020
Urban Systems Lab, Faculty Fellowship, Parsons, NYC, US
2019
New Inc, IdeasCity Residency, NYC, NY, US
2019
MacDowell Fellowship, Architecture - Design, Peterborough, NH, US
2018
Residency at SVA Visible Futures Lab, NYC, NY, US
2017
NYFA Fellowship, Digital / Electronic Arts, NY, US
2017
Solitude and ZKM, 'An AI Summer', web residency, curated by Nora O Murchú, DE. Documentation.
2017
A-Z West, Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA, US
2017
Walker Art Center, Residency, Minneapolis, MN, US
2016
Original Mind Scholar, 2-year long residency, Dalton School, NYC, US. Documentation.
2016
Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab (PI Kevin Slavin, Playful Systems), Cambridge, US
2016
'Adventuring Trailhead', Creative Residency at IDEO, San Francisco, US
2015
Pioneer Works, Visual Arts Residency, NYC, US
2015
Headlands Center for the Arts, Residency, Architecture, Marin, CA, US
2015
Museum of Arts and Design, Studio Residency, NYC, US
2015
Visiting Artist, 2-weeks, NCAR/CU Boulder, CO, US
2014
Eyebeam, Honorary Residency, NYC, US
2013
Eyebeam, Residency, NYC, US
2011
TED Fellowship, CA, US
2008-9
Visiting Scholar (with Natalie Jeremijenko), Environmental Health Clinic, NYU, NYC, US
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Awards & Grants

2026
Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Individual Grant Program with Daniel Leithinger, Ithaca, NY, US
2018
Lexus Design Award, Grand Prix Winner, mentored by Formafantasma, Salone del Mobile Milano, IT
2018
Hacking Urban Furniture, honorary mention, Extrapolation Factory, Berlin, DE.
2017
MWMO, Stewardship Fund Grant, Minneapolis, US
2015
Nomination Designs of the Year 2015, Design Museum, London, UK
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Teaching & Advising

Courses Taught

2026
'Speculative Design', in partnership with Cybernetics Library, Spring, 14-week, Visual Arts Dept., Fordham University, NYC, US Course documentation
2026
'Design for Physical Interaction', Spring, 15-week, co-taught with Daniel Leithinger, Cornell AAP, Ithaca, NY, US Course documentation
2025
'Explore, Explain, Propose', ARCH A4145, Colloquium 2, Computational Design Practices, co-taught with Daniel Miller, Fall, Columbia GSAPP, NYC, US Course documentation
2025
'Integrated Prototypes/Products', elective, Fall, 15-week, Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2025
'Integrated Prototypes/Products', elective, Spring, 15-week, Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2024
'Speculative Design', elective, Spring, 14-week, Visual Arts Dept., Fordham University, NYC, US Course documentation
2024
'Integrated Prototypes/Products', elective, Fall, 15-week, Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2024
'Integrated Prototypes/Products', elective, Spring, 15-week, Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2023
'Biological Design', studio, Fall, 15-week, UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, US Course documentation
2023
'Integrated Prototypes/Products', elective, Fall, 15-week, Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2023
'Cultures of Making', elective, Spring, 14-week, UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, US Course documentation
2023
'Integrated Prototypes/Products', elective, Spring, 15-week, Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2022
'Integrated Prototypes/Products', elective, Fall, 15-week, Integrated Design, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2022
'Making Kin with Biomaterials', elective, Fall, 14-week, Columbia GSAPP, NYC, US Course documentation
2022
'Design in The Posthuman Age', elective, co-taught w. Anastasiia Raina, Spring, 14-week, RISD GD, Providence, US Course documentation
2021
'Making kin with Biomaterials', elective, Fall, 14-week, Columbia GSAPP, NYC, US Course documentation
2020
'Interdisciplinary Team Project', elective, Fall, 17-week, Emerging Media Technology, CUNY City Tech, NYC, US Course documentation
2019
'Currents: Immersive Scenarios', elective, Adjunct Faculty, Fall, 15-week, MFA D&T, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2019
'Critical Thinking & Experimental Processes', studio, Fall, co-taught w. Paolo Cardini & Agi Haines, 13-week, RISD Industrial Design, Providence, US Course documentation
2019
'Cross-Species Test Sites', elective, Fall, 14-week, Columbia GSAPP, NYC, US Course documentation
2019
'Cross-Species Test Sites', elective, Spring, 14-week, Columbia GSAPP, NYC, US Course documentation
2019
'Data Futures', elective, co-taught w. Daniel Goddemeyer, 15-week, Parsons School of Design, NYC, US Course documentation
2018
'Weather Worlds at UNFCCC COP24', elective, co-taught w. Karolina Sobecka, 7-week, NYU ITP, NYC, US Course documentation
2018
'Graduate Thesis Research' studio, Fall, visiting critic, 14-week, RISD Industrial Design, Providence, US Course documentation
2018
'Micro-Environment Exploration Lab', elective, 14-week, co-taught w. Elizabeth Hénaff, NYU Tandon IDM, NYC, US Course documentation
2018
'Graduate Thesis Research' studio, spring, co-taught w. Andy Law, Alicia Tam Wei, Koofi Aidoo, RISD Industrial Design, Providence, US Course documentation
2017
'Weather Worlds', elective, co-taught w. Karolina Sobecka, 14-week, SVA Design (IXD) BFA, NYC, US Course documentation
2017
'Designing Hypotheticals', alternative art school, 4-week, School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, Berlin, DE Course documentation
2016
'Testing Tomorrows', elective, 7-week, co-taught with Richard The, NYU ITP, NYC, US Course documentation
2016
'Hybrid Urbanism', Visiting critic, 4-week, Strelka Institute, Moscow, RU Course documentation
2016
'Modeling Futures', alternative program, 5-week, Pioneer Works, NYC, US Course documentation
2015
'Graduate Thesis Research', studio, fall, co-taught w. Andy Law, Timothy Maly, Julie Lasky, RISD ID, Providence, US Course documentation

Thesis & Capstone Advising

2026
Capstone Project Advisor, MS Computational Design Practices, Columbia GSAPP, NYC, US. Advisees: Yuhang Qiu and Jayce Kim.
2018
Thesis Committee, Aaron Simmons, RISD MID, Providence, US
2014
Thesis Committee, Alex Todaro, SVA IDX MA, NYC, US
2013
Thesis Committee, Namwoo Bae, RISD Digital+Media, Providence, US
2012
Thesis Committee, Kyung Hoon Hyun, RISD ID, Providence, US
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Talks & Selected Press

Selected Talks, Panels, and Lectures

2026
“Design with Publics, Publics through Design.” Guest lecture in the Harvard GSD option studio: Who Owns the Grid? (STU-1504; Siqi Zhu and Caroline Filice Smith), Cambridge, MA
2026
Guest Lecture, ARC560B Topics in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism: Infrastructures of Intimacy (Tei Carpenter), Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ
2026
Cornell AAP, Design Tech Public Lecture Series, "Interweaving Tomorrows", NYC, US
2026
SUNK COSTS: The Saga of the Felicity Ace. Collaborative essay-performance and discussion, Newspeak House, London, UK, 4 May.
2026
“Ecologies of Artistic Practice,” book talk and roundtable for Ashley Lee Wong’s book, presented with Cybernetics Library, New York, US, 10 April. Panelist with LoVid, Kelani Nichole and Bri Griffin; moderated by Emily Verla Bovino.
2025
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
2025
Rutgers Design Lecture Series, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ, US
2025
Studio Lecture at the Service Design Program, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE
2024
Department of Art Speaker Series, University at Buffalo, NY, US
2022
'A decade of Participatory Futures', Fordham University, NYC, US
2022
'Futures Brought to Life', The University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT. Documentation.
2021
'Intentional Estates Agency', Cooper Union, NYC, US
2021
Design Studio, UPenn, Philadelphia, US
2020
'Post-Petro Imaginaries', 1014, NYC, US
2019
Speculative Design Meetup, Berlin, DE
2019
Primer19, Pre-Conference Meetup, NYC, US
2019
Broken Nature Symposium at MoMA, video contribution, NYC, US
2018
Exhibit Columbus, Columbus, IN, US
2017
UMN, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences, Minneapolis, US
2016
MIT Media Lab, Guest lecture at Hiromi Ozaki's Design Fiction course, Cambridge, US
2016
MIT Media Lab, Kevin Slavin's course 'Sensing Across Species', Cambridge, US
2016
Columbia GSAPP, 'Imaginary Futures' conference, NYC, US
2015
“Speculation in City Government,” apexart, New York. Co-organizer and panel participant, with NYC Emergency Management; presented alongside Alternative Unknowns.
2015
“Practice as Product,” FRAMEWORK Panel #22, Transformer at the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC, US, 7 October. Panelist with Chloe Bass and Tobias Sternberg; moderated by Andrew Holtin.
2015
NYTimes, NYC, US
2015
Strelka Institute, Moscow, RU
2014
KASK, Ghent, BE
2014
Parsons Paris, Paris, FR
2014
Media Design Practices, Artcenter, Pasadena, US
2014
NYU Poly, Integrated Digital Media Department, NYC, US
2013
Pecha Kucha, Duggal Greenhouse, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC, US
2013
SVA Interaction Design, 'Prototyping Futures' NYC, US
2013
Columbia University GSAPP, 'Infrastructure Hacking' NYC, US
2012
Cooper Union, lecture at Kevin Slavin's course, NYC, US
2012
MIT Tangible Media Group, lecture at Tangible Media Group, Cambridge, US
2011
Thrilling Wonderstories, Studio-X, NYC, US
2011
TED Fellows Talk, Long Beach, US
2011
Interaction Design, lecture, School of Visual Arts, NYC, US
2011
UDK, Digitale Klasse, lecture, Berlin, DE
2010
lucid, NYC, US
2010
Disney Research, CMU, Pittsburgh, US
2010
dorkbot, NYC, US
2010
lift-conference, Geneva, CH

Selected Bibliography and Press

2026
DAMN°: A Magazine on Contemporary Culture, 'Reconfiguring the Institutions,' Issue 93, A/W 2026/27, pp. 86–91. by Pete Fung
2026
BURG Giebichenstein, 112 Hurra Hurra x Chris Woebken. Podcast interview with Christian Zöllner, 31 August 2026.
2025
Eyebeam Post, 'Reflection' by Roddy Schrock
2024
Architectural Digest, 'Group Mentality' by Sam Cochran
2024
Ayesha Ghosh, “Tei Carpenter with Ayesha Ghosh.” The Brooklyn Rail, November. Interview discussing New Public Hydrant.
2023
CULTURED, For Agency—Agency, Architectural Issues Are Solved One Fire Hydrant at a Time. Coverage of New Public Hydrant, developed with Tei Carpenter / Agency—Agency.
2021
Unbore 'From human-centred to interspecies design' by Sara Kaiser
2021
'Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design' by Golan Levin and Tega Brain, ISBN: 9780262542043
2021
Extrapolation Factory Operator’s Manual. Department of Information. Book review.
2020
Vere van Gool, “Architect Tei Carpenter on Philosophy, the Future, and Her Public Hydrant,” PIN–UP 28, Spring/Summer. Interview discussing Intentional Estates Agency and New Public Hydrant.
2019
Matt Shaw, “What is the architecture of degrowth?,” The Architect’s Newspaper, 4 October. Review of the Oslo Architecture Triennale featuring Intentional Estates Agency.
2019
Possibility Hours, Metro Test Zones. Podcast interview with Scott Paterson, with Elliott P. Montgomery, 30 December.
2019
Travis Warren Cooper, “How to Edit a Building: Fieldnotes from the North American Brasilia.” Urbanities 9(2), pp. 52–65. Academic article discussing What If Columbus, p. 60.
2019
The Republic, coverage of What If Columbus, 9 August. Original report referenced by Kiosk Marketplace.
2019
The Architect’s Newspaper, “Graham Foundation announces 2019 architectural research grants winners.” Features Metro Test Zones.
2019
“The Influencing Machine. Automatized dystopias made real.” Domus, 3 January. Exhibition feature including Deep Unlearning (I).
2019
Anna-Liisa Laarits, “What if Think Tanks Were Operated by the Public?.” Estonian Academy of Arts. Interview with Extrapolation Factory.
2019
Stuart Candy and Kelly Kornet, “Turning Foresight Inside Out: An Introduction to Ethnographic Experiential Futures.” Journal of Futures Studies 23(3), pp. 3–22. Includes 1-888-FUTURES.
2019
Our futures: by the people, for the people. Nesta. Research report including 1-888-FUTURES.
2018
Fast Company 'A brilliant hack for New York City's water hydrants' by Aileen Kwun
2018
NYU Tandon News 'Biodesign Challenge Finalists Put Their Skin in the Game' by Annie Brinich
2018
Axis Magazine, Vol. 194, 'Extrapolation Factory - Design Futures Studio' by Kyoko Nakajima
2018
“An Archive of Schools at the fourth Istanbul Design Biennial.” Domus, 28 August. Digital editorial feature including Mobile Service Stations.
2018
Sarah Gerth V. D. Berg, “Pedagogical Possibilities: Arts-Based Practices of Collaborative Time for Teaching the Future.” Transformations 28(1), pp. 6–18. Discussion of the Extrapolation Worksheets and Operator’s Manual.
2017
Austin T. J. Houldsworth, For Money’s Sake!. PhD thesis, Royal College of Art, pp. 82–86. Discussion of A New Relationship to Money.
2016
Walker Art Center 'The Future Should Come in Multiples' by Jacqueline Stahlmann
2016
Randian 'Book Review: The Manual Suspension of Disbelief' by Iona Whittaker
2016
Creative Applications 'The House in the Sky – Sascha Pohflepp & Chris Woebken' by Greg J. Smith
2016
TED Fellows Medium 'How to Invent the Future in 6 Easy Steps' by Karen Francis Eng
2016
DIS Magazine / Berlin Biennale 'The Construction of Unpredictability' by Elena Esposito
2015
urbanNext, Insect Spectacles. Excerpt from Geoff Manaugh’s interview with Chris Woebken in Landscape Futures (2013), published online 19 November 2015.
2015
The Atlantic 'Role-Playing the Next Big Disaster' by Jessica Leigh Hester
2015
TED Fellows on Medium 'Want to send someone a gift from the future?' by Karen Eng
2015
PSFK 'Gene Cleaners and Robo-Frogs Will Fill Pawn Shop of the Future' by Janet Burns
2015
“The future of our species.” Domus, 11 November. HUMAN+ exhibition feature including Animal Superpowers.
2015
“Diseño de futuros: 5 proyectos.” Revista Código. Feature including 99¢ Futures.
2014
MoMA - Design and Violence 'Beetle Wrestler (N. Jeremijenko & Chris Woebken)' by Hugh Raffles
2014
Avant - 'Island Physics' by Sam Hart
2014
Huffington Post – 'Stanley Kubrick Put the Science in Science Fiction' by Gerry Flahive
2014
Ryan Bigge, “The Novel and the Future of the Near Future.” Hazlitt, 3 June. Essay discussing Futurematic.
2014
Bruce Sterling, “Design Fiction: Future Factories and Futurematic Situation Lab in Toronto.” WIRED, 23 February. Event notice.
2013
Dazed Digital – 'Extrapolation Factory will sell you the future' by Sam Hart
2013
Gizmodo – 'New Yorkers Receive Junk Mail From The Future' by Adam Clark Estes
2013
Wired – 'Extrapolation Factory at Studio-X NYC' by Bruce Sterling
2013
'Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions' p. 85-94, by Geoff Manaugh, ISBN-13: 978-8415391142
2013
“A Year on the Road with Venue.” MAS Context, 9 September. Interview with Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley discussing Chris Woebken’s instruments.
2012
'Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream' by Barry Bergdoll and Reinhold Martin, ISBN-13:  978-0870708275
2011
Volume 28: The Internet of Things - 'Touching the Interspace' by Carola Moujan
2011
New Scientist 'A weekend of biohacking at FutureLabCamp' by Nidhi Subbaraman
2011
'Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects' by Paola Antonelli, Jamer Hunt, Alexandra Midal, ISBN-13: 978-0870707964
2011
'See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception' by Madeline Schwartzman, ISBN-13: 978-1907317293
2011
Amphibious Architecture. The Expanded Environment. Project feature.
2011–2012
Luis Camnitzer, “The Whisper of Things: Talk to Me.” ArtNexus 83, December–February 2012. Review including Animal Superpowers.
2009
Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova, A Synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing. Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5, The Architectural League of New York. ISBN 978-0-9800994-4-7. Discusses An Apparatus for Capturing Other Points of View and credits Chris Woebken’s conceptual, digital and physical contribution, pp. 38–39.
2009
Axis Magazine, Vol. 142 'Advanced Design Research'
2009
'Smart Surfaces' by Thorsten Klooster, ISBN-13: 978-3764388126
2009
'Play All Day: Design for Children' by Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, ISBN-13: 978-3899552362
2009
Axis Magazine, Vol. 139, 'When a designer becomes a Researcher'
2009–2010
“One Fish, Two Fish….” Columbia Magazine, Winter 2009–10. Coverage of Amphibious Architecture.
2008
Archistorm 'Science(s) & Design : Episode 1', Vol. 34,
2008
Good Magazine 'Animal Superpowers' by R. Garofalo, G. Mandry, E. Winkowski, M. Fegan
2008
'Design and the Elastic Mind' by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Peter Hall, ISBN-13: 978-0870707322
2008
RCA Show 2008. Core77, 9 July. Exhibition report including Animal Superpowers.
2008
Glen Taylor, “RCA: The Future of Money.” Core77, 3 June. Coverage of A New Relationship to Money.
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Education & Earlier Professional Experience

Education

2006-8
MA Design Interactions (with Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby), Royal College of Art, London, UK
2001-3
Interactive Design Apprenticeship (with Adobe Systems), Hamburg, DE

Industry Experience

2011
Frog Design, Senior Interaction Designer, NY, US
2007
IDEO, Internship, San Francisco, US
2001-6
Adobe Systems, User Experience Designer, Hamburg (D) / San Jose (US)
2001
Method Studios, Internship, Santa Monica, CA, US
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