Their work explores creative solutions for the built environment with a focus on community driven design processes. With a passion for creative engagement with the public, their practice employs a grassroots approach to tackle spatial justice issues. By acting as facilitators, the studio designs thought provoking and playful additions to the urban landscape.
Read MoreStructured as a co-op, Ampled is 100% owned by its artists, workers, and community (not VC investors) with the ultimate goal of creating a permanent vehicle for artist prosperity—not an acquisition or exit. As an organization, Ampled has positioned itself in stark contrast to Silicon Valley ethos through a commitment to radical transparency, democratic governance, and broad-based user ownership.
Read MoreFounded by Joseph Cuillier III and Shani Peters, TBS has facilitated over 60 workshops and hosted three annual Black Love Festivals to date. Our work has been supported by The New Museum, The Studio Museum, Chicago Architecture Biennial, A Blade of Grass, The Laundromat Project, The New School, LMCC, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
Read MoreReferring to contemporary technology, digital power structures, popular culture, and the alienation of an individual’s spirit and body, he draws on these themes to create works rooted in absurdist and carnivalesque techniques to propose critiques and celebrations of alienated culture.
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