Teaching:

One of the most exciting areas of our practice is sharing our ideas and techniques, as well as working with others to collaboratively develop new projects. Many of our project involve collaborations with various classes at universities and colleges. Over the last few years we have been teaching workshops, giving lectures and working with students. This year (2008) we led workshops in Bolivia (on Comfort), and Kansas City (on Clothing/Architecture + Exaptive Design) as well as worked with students from Maine to San Francisco. Our recent work has led us to develop workshops and collaborate with students and researchers across many disciplines: soil science, furniture design, design, clothing, architecture, microbiology, environmental design, urban design etc.

Some Key Areas of Teaching Interest:

Exaptive Design

Visualization/Embodiedment/Enaction

Clothing/Architecture

Collaboration

Philosophies & Politics of Enaction, Distributed Agency

Ecosystemic Logics/Developmental Systems Theory

Geophilosophy

Recent and Upcoming Lectures and Critiques:

(2007-2008)

San Francisco

Denver

New York

Kansas City

Athens

Colby

Chicago

Iqaluit

Recent Workshops:

Bolivia

KCAI

Upcoming Conferences:

Deeptime+Rapidtime, Grand Arts, Kansas City

University of Ohio, Athens

Some Recent Institutions we have worked with:

Columbia University, NYC

KCAI, Kansas City

SAIC, Chicago

Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design, Denver

CCA, SF

Maine College of Art, Portland

Purdue University, Indiana

please be in contact if you are interested in working with us or having us lecture, critique, or develop a workshop: spurse01@gmail.com