Quipit Student Survey
A participatory table installation ↗ in the school's atrium that challenged passersby with the question: What would you change if you ran the school? Designed as a platform for dialogue and collector of viewpoints, the table became adorned with students' handwritten responses, evolving into a mirror of collective sentiment. After a month-long response collection, QUIPIT—a student group in the University of Illinois' School of Architecture, with Ray Majewski, Christian Pepper, and Robert Prochaska—held an exclusive student event to discuss the gathered insights, culminating in a presentation to the school's director. Part of our broader initiative using tongue-in-cheek installation art and events to foster open dialogues among students, faculty, and administration.
Related Projects
Digital Picnic
A suspended holo-deck-like structure using projectors and a USB controller to adjust the environment with various images, patterns, and colors. I contributed production, assembly, conceptualization, and created visuals and an interactive controller using Arduino and Max/MSP, working with Christian Pepper and Robert Prochaska. We ultimately repurposed the installation into permanent furniture.
Bezeliness Intensifies
An art and research project in which I studied the aesthetics of frames and bezels through space-filling curves, packing algorithms, and reaction-diffusion simulations. The project also served as a personal investigation into various digital production techniques, including 3D printing, furniture making, pen plotting, rendering, video production, and reactive lighting for installations.
The Austere
CRITICAL MASS Student Choice Award, 2018A speculative project that imagines a near-future of climate catastrophe where corporations provide prefabricated housing tied to labor contracts. Originally a design-build proposal for the U.S. Solar Decathlon, I reformulated the work to explore how speculative design could feel more imminent and unsettling. Instead of distant hyperbole, the project grounded its extreme scenario in plausible economic and social trends, positioning it between architectural proposal, narrative fiction, and propaganda artifact. Exhibited as a large-format presentation board and later as an augmented reality installation, the work won the Student Choice Award at Critical Mass in 2018.
Guccibytes
An exhibition and print zine showcasing unfinished speculative pieces from our studio organization, Quipit, with a focus on revealing the often-unseen digital components of our work. The zine was printed on long scrolls wrapped around PVC lattices, with embedded QR codes linking to AR content in Wikar. Each contributor used the platform differently: some created virtual galleries, others showed complex models on virtual plinths, and I created a "3D portal" to show one of my miniature models staged in its fictional setting. The physical exhibition components were built from materials recycled from a previous project.