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inhabitation

installation on the met roof

reCOVER parsons

testing grasshopper to model + router to fabricate flatpack installation for exhibit at parsons about reCOVER relief housing project from uva. collaboration with a. canfora

braille rail

chipboard templates for embossed drawings describing material palette of porch design for a blind client. collaboration with w. williams

amtrak installation … stalled

a project from june 3 – 30, working with w. on a traveling exhibit space. trespassing on an amtrak train car to tell the story of pullman porters – typically african-american employees of the pullman [palace car] company from the mid-19th to early 20th c. – who inhabited that era’s racial divide as menial laborers and train-slaves to white passengers, yet respected leaders in their communities whose travels spread news and cultural influence north to south and back again …

started with a reading of tye’s rising from the rails, and a ride on the crescent from c-ville to DC, which inspired plans for more train rides with cameras …

exhibit concept leverages the low ceilings of the train car and the datum of seat-backs along an aisle : exhibit panels, display ledges and several seating conditions emerge from a continuous, folded ceiling surface above …

on the heels of national train day [may 9, celebrated in philadelphia] and recruitment efforts tracking down the last of these porters, had hoped to get further than these models + drawings … information from amtrak is not forthcoming, so we’re stalled

amtrak installation

exhibit concept leverages low ceilings of train cars and the datum of seat-backs along an aisle: panels, display ledges and seating emerge from a continuous, folded ceiling surface…