Office of Non-Human Standing · 2026
Ecological observations become the starting point for civic filings and distributed record-keeping.
People & partnersParticipatory sensing
How can shared observation make environmental relationships perceptible and actionable?
Participatory sensing connects observation, tools and public engagement. These works explore how people, organisms and devices reveal conditions that are difficult to see, and how observations can enter conversations about shared environments and civic action.
Selected projects
Transition Habitats · 2017
Bird calls, pollinator images and lichen observations become ways to attend to changing environmental conditions.
People & partnersHolobiont Urbanism · 2016
Honeybees and local beekeepers help gather microbial material, revealing the invisible ecology of cities.
People & partnersSituated Sampling Set · 2015
Site-specific simulations drop digital versions of survey and calibration objects into virtual environments set to a place’s location, gravity and light.
With Sascha Pohflepp · People & partnersAmphibious Architecture · 2009
Water sensors, lights and text messages create a public interface to river ecosystems and collective interest.
People & partnersAn Apparatus for Capturing Other Points of View · 2009
A Near Future Laboratory project led by Julian Bleecker, published in Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5 and exhibited at LABoral, imagines a device for capturing other points of view.
Near Future Laboratory · Contribution · People & partnersWorkshops and fieldwork
Variable World: Bay Model Tour & Salon · 2015
A ranger tour of the Army Corps’ San Francisco Bay Model looks at how a working physical simulation made tides and currents visible, followed by a salon at Headlands.
Avant.org · Headlands Center for the Arts · People & partnersHerramientas Urbanas · 2014
A three-day workshop develops tools for noticing previously invisible patterns in Mexico City.
People & partnersResources
Interdependence Registry · Interactive tool
The public filing interface from Office of Non-Human Standing.
The Office of Non-Human Standing · Essay on Rhizome
Further context for Office of Non-Human Standing and the residency.
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