the ai edit™ 1-4

(re)wilding aesthetics / extremophilic / banned architectures

… climate resilient housing, insect infested architectures, bio-bashed columns, lab-grown clothing that you grow-out instead of throw-out, bioreceptive façades, harvesters, bladders and severely articulated surfaces are a few of my favorite things …

deep see creatures

Concept for rapidly deployable synthetic reefs and marine habitat modules. The design also lends itself to trash collection when needed, acting as a kind of oceanic tumble weed.

"Deep see" is a play on words which refers to the use of artificial intelligence as an intelligent agent, deployed where urgently needed - the environment, in this case the ocean. Rather than turn the focus of artificial intelligence and machine vision on ourselves, what might we discover if we focus it on the natural world instead?

virginia beach: urban atoll

Virginia Beach reimagined as an urban oasis - a sustainable vision that sheds the often sterile tendencies of contemporary "green" aesthetics for a more septic, bio-inclusive and wild alternative.

gaudi haeckel giger

the commodification of the natural world

While this series puts forth striking images of handbags, we use the stylistic tendencies of Gaudi, Haeckel and Giger to highlight the commodification of nature through the fashionization of biology.

Why should i care about the natural world, when i can wear it? Following the same logic, one might ask: Why should i care about that pristine landscape, when really it is a neighborhood that has yet to be built? That open field is just a piece of property, yet to be developed. That lake is a product, yet to be bottled ...

The way we think about the world matters.

Changing the way we think about the world starts NOW.

cyber neom

an aerial octopus

a communication device conveying information to the city