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Teaching:

Design is not about producing solutions but about producing problems -- problems that are worth having.

All of our work is collaborative and driven by experiments. We are not interested in teaching in the traditional sense -- in fact we began working together over ten years ago in an attempt to leave classical models of teaching and learning behind. We are not interested in studio classes or lecture classrooms -- but in the joining of questions to actual research and experimentation. Learning begins by learning what is unknown and by doing what is uncertain and vague. Teaching begins from within this same experimental position.

"How else can one write but of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely there that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the borders which separate our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms one into the other." (Deleuze)

We are interested in new models of collaboration and research that crosses disciplines and institutional logics to carry out actual events within the world. We are very excited by the possibilities of what can be done today within and across institutions such as universities and art schools that allow neurosurgeons, economists, ecologists and urban planners to work together with students on actual research driven projects to have an effect on our material and conceptual cultural logics. The multiple spaces of art/architecture/design today afford unique opportunities to develop these logics. We have been working for many years now to develop and utilize these strange and wondrous transversal spaces. We have worked with ecologists, urbanists, mycologists, bacteriologists, philosophers, politicians, business groups, NGOs, fishermen, marine biologists, paleontologists, clothing designers, chefs, historians, and many others. In all of these collaborations we have brought in schools and students with the hope to creatively and experimentally shift forms of pedagogy.

Currently we are working with:

-students from KCAI + Erin Manning & Brian Massumi on developing clothing/mobile architecture systems (see link for more information)

-students at the University of Ohio @ Athens of geosocial question about the long term modulations of the land that coal mining develops.

-studio X @ columbia university to workshop augmented auralization technologies

We are very interested in teaching and working with institutions. please be in contact if you are interested in working with us: spurse01@gmail.com

for more information on upcoming events please follow this LINK.

Some of the main areas of focus for us are:

Exaptive Design

Visualization/Embodiedment/Enaction

Clothing/Architecture

Collaboration

Philosophies & Politics of Enaction,