Spurse is a research and design collaborative that catalyzes critical issues into collective action. Through a playful transformation of conceptual and material systems, we develop problems worth having and worlds worth making, engaging across scales and complexities of all things human and nonhuman, organic and non- organic. We begin every endeavor by locating ourselves of the world, not merely in the world.
spurse -n 1. spur: a tangent, or an indirect path that is followed to new solutions and possibilities; -v 2. spur: to prod others on, to catalyze into action; -n 3. purse: a holder of critical diverse instruments for getting us through our everyday lives, something beautiful and necessary; -v 4. interspersed: nothing stands alone; -v 5. disperse: everything is much larger than it seems--it is distributed.
spurse -n 1. spur: a tangent, or an indirect path that is followed to new solutions and possibilities; -v 2. spur: to prod others on, to catalyze into action; -n 3. purse: a holder of critical diverse instruments for getting us through our everyday lives, something beautiful and necessary; -v 4. interspersed: nothing stands alone; -v 5. disperse: everything is much larger than it seems--it is distributed.
January 18, 2012
This spring we are up in the eastern townships of Quebec working on a project with the Foreman Gallery at Bishop University.
January 18, 2012
A Workshop of the futures of Water in Kansas. Saturday feb. 11th at the Salina Art Center. We would like to join all those who are already entangled with the futures of water in Kansas for a one day workshop to develop new problems worth having and new futures worth developing. Also join spurse for a discussion of their work and methods over a drink on feb. 10th. For more information please follow this link.
January 18, 2012
Join spurse on february 4th at 7pm for a mid-winter feast to explore and evolve the importance of urban foraging. Dinner will feature foraged and gleaned local edibles in unique preparations and one-of-a kind settings at the new Issue Project Room space. The event is free (in return a lively willingness to be in cahoots with the questions of eating, foraging, community and our multi-species commons). Information and to RSVP please follow this link.
June 5, 2011
Nibbivik/Eating Place: We've recently been in Nome with the the Alaska Design Forum conducting research for our upcoming experimental field guide to future arctic foodways and ideas of subsistence. More news @ Eating Place