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Fence as Gateway
2025


Description
Appropriations of chain link fencing towards an urban commons.  [in progress]

Keywords
design research, urban intervention, spatial design
 
Momentix Toys: motionKit
2020-2023


Description
Toys for creating chain reaction machines

Keywords
play, education, product design, Kickstarter

 

A story of two creeks
2024


Description
A listening tube to access a forgotten creek + accompanying map. 

Keywords
graphic design, environmental justice, research, infrastructure

 
Wedding Cake Machine
2022Description
A Rube Goldberg Machine designed to cut a six tier wedding cake.


Keywords
installation, experiential, kinetic sculpture, spatial design

 
Postcards from Nowhere
2024


Description
A postcard sticker kit for turning trash into mail

Keywords
product, upcycle, research

 
Fishfrastructure
2024


Description
A oxygenating wheel attached to a fish ladder attached to a dam attached to a river

Keywords
sculpture, kinetic, environmental, infrastructure

 
Organoid Computing
2023 Description
An exploration of computer materiality 

Keywords
speculative, experimental, experiential

 
Ambient interfacees
2023


Description
Two headpieces that externalize the micro-interaction of lip reading

Keywords
kinetic, electronics, interactive

 
side table
2024


Description
Red oak and ceramic tile side table

Keywords
furniture, woodworking

 
Leveraging Play and Rube Goldberg Machines to Teach 21st Century + Design Skills
2024


Description
A research paper on the development of Momentix and its findings around play based learning. Presented at the 2024 Design Research Society Conference in Boston.  

Keywords
design education, rube goldberg machine, play

  Read the paper on the DRS site