I examine how design shapes systems of power, care, and belonging through an experimental practice of object-making, furniture, performance, writing, and social practice. These interactive media create circumstances that invite people to gather, slow down, and reconsider the social conventions embedded in everyday design. Humor and speculation often serve as entry points, allowing familiar objects and rituals to reveal the assumptions they carry about labor, efficiency, and human value. Grounded in the tradition of social sculpture, my practice considers the built environment as a site where cultural values are reinforced, contested, and reimagined.

I develop speculative designs that prototype alternative ways of relating to objects and people, forgoing the lonely lifestyle of consumerist individualism in favor of relational living. These works invite participants to inhabit possible futures in which care, rest, and collective well-being are co-created through the process of remembering. Humor, play, and experimentation with abjection serve as methods for revealing the societal conditioning embedded in everyday objects, routines, and spaces while opening new possibilities for how they might function or be reshaped. Unpacking the choreographies of designed objects through these methods illustrates how they are instrumental in upholding socio-political control and exploitation, all of which must be made visible before they can be unlearned.

My practice studies systematic exclusionary practices to develop interventions, deployable structures, assistive technology, and community resources to provide pathways forward rather than simply critiquing existing systems. Whether creating spaces for communal healing, publishing artist books, or developing pedagogical practices, I approach design as a tool for cultivating more equitable, restorative, and convivial ways of coming together.

Across my artistic and academic work, I see making as an act of world-building that asks how objects, spaces, and shared experiences can foster greater connection and public prosperity. I am interested in how speculative interventions can shift cultural narratives, making visible the social, political, and economic forces that shape our environments while offering tangible alternatives rooted in reciprocity, generosity, and repair.