A summary of the things I’ve done between 2017 and 2022:
In May 2018, I was selected as a participant in an exhibition curated by American Design Club titled Built.
Photo by American Design Club
Clothes Rack exhibited at the Built exhibition as a part of NYCxDesign 2018
In January 2019. I organized and curated a show at the Ann Arbor Art Center along with Matt Rosner and Chris Czub titled Works in Progress.
Photo by the Ann Arbor Art Center
WIP poster designed by Matt Ross
Works in Progress celebrates the beauty and chaos involved in designing and bringing functional works to life through fashion, graphic design, furniture, architecture, industrial design, and more. The 24 selected participants include working professionals, students, and internationally exhibited designers. The exhibition includes finished works, sketches, experiments, jigs, and process materials that provide a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in the studio.
For exhibition photos and photos from the opening event, visit the Ann Arbor Art Center’s website here.
In April 2019, I was selected to participate in a show curated by Form&Seek called titled Tactile Matter, which was exhibited during Milan Design Week at the Ventura Future design fair. For more info on the exhibition, visit the Form&Seek page here.
Knottoman 2.0 being shown at Tactile Matter during Milan Design Week 2019.
In 2019, I collaborated with Bilge Nur Saltik to organize and curate a show for Detroit Month of Design titled Substance, which centers around the processes of material exploration as a driving force of design.
This exhibition and opening event was a featured event for Detroit Month of Design 2019. For more photos of the exhibition and the opening event, visit the Form&Seek page here.
Substance poster designed by Bilge Nur Saltik
Photo by Ray Im
In 2020, I collaborated with Form&Seek again to organize and curate a show titled Never Normal, in partnership with Wasserman Projects for Detroit Month of Design. From the exhibition text, “the works in this exhibition seek to reexamine and reevaluate our personal relationships to our domestic landscape. Through craft or making, these designers are able to express value, preciousness, and care that offer intuitive moments of clarity on contemporary issues in response to the needs of a society in flux.”
Photo by Clare Gatto
Photo by Wasserman Projects
For more photos of the exhibition, along with a video recording of the virtual opening, visit the Wasserman Projects page here.
I participated in the show as a part of END Studio, an architecture studio where I currently work full time. We exhibited an installation titled Pop-Up Repair Shop / Unlearning Studies, a two-part design-as-social-practice / design charrette combined into one installation piece.
Pop-Up Repair Shop is a free furniture repair service that we offered to our surrounding communities. We put up flyers calling for people to send us photos of broken furniture that they would like to have repaired. We then selected seven pieces of furniture and surveyed each client on their desired functionality and aesthetics of the repaired piece. Thinking creatively about the memories and desires of every day objects, the interventions playfully reimagined the objects for the future. For before-and-after photos of the pieces, visit the END Studio page here.
Unlearning Studies is the result of a design charrette where we collected broken, discarded furniture and homegoods, and reconstructed them into new designed objects. Going into the project, we wanted to create a dialogue about inclusion within the design field, questioning who and what was included in the category. By working intuitively and limiting our material palette, we wanted to rethink the western design ideals that we had absorbed as a part of our design education. For more photos of the finished installation along with progress photos, visit the END Studio page here.