Office of Non-Human Standing · 2026
A speculative registry borrows the forms of labor organizing to question how institutions classify and value other species.
People & partnersMultispecies relations
How might design make room for the lives, perceptions and contributions of other species?
Multispecies relations explores interdependence between people and other living beings. These projects use sensory experiences, shared infrastructure and speculative civic forms to ask how different species inhabit environments together.
Selected projects
Carbon Care Commoning Kit · 2024
Collective sensory exercises explore interdependence through changing material and energy cycles.
People & partnersNew Public Hydrant · 2018 / 2022
Shared water infrastructure includes a drinking fountain for humans, pets and other species.
People & partnersTransition Habitats · 2017
Indicator species become participants in speculative communication infrastructures and public futures exercises.
People & partnersHolobiont Urbanism · 2016
Cities are approached as intertwined networks of people, honeybees and microorganisms.
People & partnersAmphibious Architecture · 2009
An installation opens a dialogue between people, fish and their shared river environment.
People & partnersCollaboration Birdhouse · 2009
A mechanical birdhouse makes cooperation between two birds part of its operation.
People & partnersAnimal Superpowers · 2007–present
Wearable devices invite people to explore animal senses and experience different perceptual worlds.
People & partnersTeaching
Ecological Intelligences and Interspecies Agents · 2025
A one-day workshop, co-facilitated with Mark Shepard, explores ecological intelligences and interspecies agents.
Hyperbolic Labs · Co-facilitated with Mark Shepard · People & partnersMaking Kin with Biomaterials · Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Teaching at Columbia GSAPP connects material experimentation with questions of kinship.
Columbia GSAPP · Course documentation · People & partnersFuture Present and Coastnatural Trail · 2015
Workshop participants cross current biotech research with species living in the Marin Headlands, and their hybrids become a fictional trail and field guide for the Spring Open House.
Headlands Center for the Arts · People & partnersResources
Carbon Care Commoning Kit · PDF
Collective exercises for sensing and imagining changing carbon futures.
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