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Future Climate Souvenirs Website
The team at HOUR Studio worked with us to shape the new microsite for Future Climate Souvenirs—a playful portal that enables audiences to learn more about each proposed site and [...] FeaturedFutures -
Future Climate Souvenirs of Chicago – Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025
Future Climate Souvenirs is a platform for creating engaging, imaginative artifacts that spark conversation about the climate crisis through humor and speculation rather than doomsday scenarios. In this edition, Future [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFutures -
Multispecies Inc: On show at the Design Museum
Amidst the backdrop of diminishing biodiversity and the looming specter of climate change, our connections with the environment and non-human species can seem so enigmatic that they challenge our capacity [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedWorks -
Future Climate Souvenirs of New York
Future Climate Souvenirs of New York imagines six patches and a baseball cap from future nature reserves and ecotourist sites of New York. The project envisions scenarios where the city [...] FeaturedFutures -
Multispecies Inc at Space & Time Gallery
A new solo show in Chicago at Space & Time Gallery on view May 12 – June 16 2024. Space & Time gallery presents a selection of works from our [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFutures -
Eco-Fables: Tales of Multispecies Inc.
Eco-Fables: Tales of Multispecies Inc. is an interactive environment that allows audiences to experience the world of Multispecies Inc. through a series of original, recorded stories, and explore its distinct [...] FeaturedFuturesWorks -
Multispecies Inc
Multispecies Inc. is the working title for an ongoing series of projects exploring multispecies future imaginaries that offer a glimpse into a future world of multispecies cohabitation, non-human-centric living and [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFuturesWordsWorks -
Multispecies Inc Book: Volume 1
Multispecies Inc. is the working title for an ongoing series of projects exploring multispecies future imaginaries that offer a glimpse into a future world of multispecies cohabitation, non-human-centric living and [...] FeaturedFuturesWordsWorks -
Catalog for the Post-Human – Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
Catalog for the Post-Human opened at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2021, curated by Hashim Sarkis, on 22nd May to 21st November 2021. Building on [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFutures -
The Whole Earth 2045 – Memories and Bodies from a Future
Three objects from the Catalog for the Post-Human collection – ClickbaitWear, Mycopops and the NootDial, were exhibited alongside artists Johanna Bruckner (Zurich) and Grégory Chatonsky (Paris) at the Berlin-based art [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFutures -
Catalog for the Post-Human Infomercial
Extending the multi-part project Catalog for the Post-Human, we have created an infomercial that introduces the company and its product ranges, and directs viewers to visit the trade fair stand [...] FeaturedFutures -
Designs for Different Futures
Designs for Different Futures was a tri-institutional exhibition organised by three major US art institutions – the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Art Institute [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFutures -
Catalog For The Post-Human – Designs for Different Futures
Catalog for the Post-Human is a satirical installation that draws upon research into the future of work and human enhancement to highlight the nature of our post-human condition. The title [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFutures -
Work-In-Progress: Catalog for the Post Human – Venice Edition
We are delighted to have been invited to contribute a new work to the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, now postponed to 2021, expanding on our [...] ExhibitionsFeaturedFutures -
Catalog For The Post-Human – Open Society Foundations
In response to the Open Society Foundations’ Future of Work research program, we developed the Catalog For The Post Human, a discursive tool to raise awareness, among labor advocates, of [...] FeaturedFutures -
Catalog for the Post-Human at MetaWhat?
Catalog for the Post-Human Vending Machine was featured at the “MetaWhat?” exhibition, held at The Media Majlis gallery on Northwestern University’s Doha campus from August 2023 to May 2024. Originally [...] ExhibitionsFutures -
Runners High
Three newly commissioned works on paper, created specifically for the show ‘Running: Birds Fly, Fish Swim, Humans Run’—an exhibition at piknic, an art space and cultural center in Seoul, Korea. [...] Works -
Design for the Unthinkable World
Design for the Unthinkable World was a group show at KORA – Contemporary Arts Center at Castrignano de Greci, Lecce, Italy, curated by Paul Rodgers, Craig Bremner and Giovanni Innella. [...] Exhibitions -
Algae Kin-Gatherer
A floating sanctuary for multispecies communion, the Algae Kin-Gatherer is a public sculpture and is the first physical manifestation from the climate fiction Multispecies Inc. This woven willow raft, mounted [...] ExhibitionsFuturesWords -
Catalog for the Post-Human – Works on Paper series
A collection of new collage drawings each depicting a speculative wearable technology, developed as part of the design process behind the Catalog for the Post-Human project. Catalog for the Post-Human, [...] FuturesWorks -
The New Earth
A group show entitled The New Earth at Public Works Gallery in Wicker Park, Chicago. The first exhibition to showcase our Catalog for the Post-Human series of works on paper- [...] Exhibitions -
Jerusalem Design Week 2022 – Catalog for the Post-Human
The ongoing multi-part series, Catalog for the Post-Human (CftPH) on show during Jerusalem Design Week at Hansen House, Jerusalem. The work was exhibited amongst a wide range of fellow artists [...] ExhibitionsFutures -
Fraxinus Mors Larva
‘Fraxinus Mors Larva’ (Latin for “ash death-mask”) was a response to the invitation by Studio Other Spaces (artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann) to nominate, and physically represent, a [...] Works -
Supermarket of the Future – Embassy of Food 2021
MorningRitual™ from the Catalog for the Post-Human collection of works was included in the Supermarket of the Future exhibition at the Embassy of Food during the Dutch Design Week in [...] ExhibitionsFutures -
Last Object On Earth
A commission from United States Artists to contribute to the inaugural edition of their new digital publication New Suns: Artists Shaping Ecologies. Their first issue titled Mapping the Horizon- centered around [...] Works -
Tomorrow Anew
A short text written for Tomorrow Anew.org – a fundraising initiative established in 2020 as a response to the Covid-19 crisis. Its purpose is twofold: 1. to collectively reflect on [...] FuturesWords -
Catalog for the Post-Human Limited Editions
We have developed a limited edition series of miniature artworks, to help support the realization of our Catalog for the Post-Human project for Venice. Visit our shop page for more info. Works -
Moonshot Concordia Futures
A 1-day workshop with faculty, staff, and students exploring the potential futures of the fine arts department at Concordia University. The Faculty of Fine Arts Space Planning group asked us [...] Workshops -
Making Meaning: An Introduction to Designing Objects
Making Meaning : An Introduction to Designing Objects is an on line design course written and presented by Tim Parsons and produced by The School of the Art Institute of [...] Workshops -
Spectacular Vernacular at Brooks Stevens Gallery
Our 2016 solo exhibition Spectacular Vernacular moved to its second venue, the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2018. Adapted to the individual room [...] Exhibitions -
Spectacular Vernacular The Book
Our Spectacular Vernacular artists book summarizes and presents our solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2016. Along with many photos of the exhibition and the process of its creation, [...] Words -
Rule of Thirds Finder
This pocket sized gazing device is based on the Rule of Thirds, which breaks an image into nine equal parts using two equidistant vertical lines and two equidistant horizontal lines. [...] Works -
Mas Context: Analog
We took part in the 4th edition of MAS Context: Analog, a one day event of talks from emerging and established practitioners within the fields of design and architecture who [...] Events -
Strelnikov’s Glasses and Other Stories
Strelnikov’s Glasses and Other Stories was an exhibition organized by The Society of the Spectacles, a creative research group that observes the cultural significance of eyewear in art and film. [...] Exhibitions -
Infinite Games
In 2013 the Chicago Board of Education approved a plan to close 49 elementary schools and one high school program, almost all in low-income neighborhoods. The majority of the contents [...] ExhibitionsWorks -
Time with Objects
In collaboration with music ensemble a.pe.ri.od.ic and the Arts Club of Chicago we designed the stage setting for a performance of Time with People – an hour-long music and theatre work by [...] EventsExhibitions -
Observe, Experiment, Speculate
Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, and writer Lee Ann Norman joined us in a conversation exploring the [...] Events -
Culture Mixtape
As part of the programming for our solo show Spectacular Vernacular at the Chicago Cultural Center, we asked creative practitioners from Chicago to reveal what inspires them in a quick-fire, show [...] Events -
Sandcastle Maker
These black and white images show Tim Parsons’ mother and her family on a beach in the Isle of Wight, UK, in 1948. But how did they make those extraordinary [...] Works -
Gwangjang Bench
A wooden domestic bench with a removable quilted cover designed after observing wooden benches with insulated electric blankets in use in Gwangjang Market, Seoul, South Korea. The solid walnut bench [...] Works -
Spectacular Vernacular
Our first major solo exhibition at the Cultural Center’s Chicago Rooms, Spectacular Vernacular, explored the first five years of our collaborative practice through the themes of observation, experimentation and speculation. [...] Exhibitions -
Routine Rituals
Routine Rituals is a series of six pairings of objects and photographs assembled after our residency at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in North East India. They were exhibited [...] Words -
Future Climate [Hi]stories: CCA
Based on our Future Climate [Hi]stories project, commissioned by the journal Disegno, this speculative design workshop at California College of Arts challenged MFA Design students to extrapolate critical scenarios from research on [...] Workshops -
Future Climate [HI]stories: CAFA
This workshop at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts challenged 15 students to create their own geoengineering future folklores. The 5-day workshop took the designers through a fast-paced speculative design [...] Workshops -
Pop Art Design
To coincide with the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibitions Pop Art Design and The Street, The Store and The Silver Screen, we were commissioned to design [...] Exhibitions -
Make It Cherry
Fernwey gallery, an artist-run space dedicated to promoting the work of emerging and mid-career artists in Chicago, asked us to participate in a group show with fashion designers Maybe Sunday [...] Exhibitions -
Quilt Furniture
An early observation we made, after moving to the US, was the apparent robustness with which vehicles such as train cars, food trucks and semi-trailers are manufactured. The common material [...] Works -
Finding Meaning
Finding Meaning is a boxed set of five lithographs, commissioned and printed by Fernwey Editions. Following the release of the Golden Section Finder, Finding Meaning continued our meditation upon the [...] Works -
Future Climate [Hi]stories
In the lead up to the Paris climate summit in December 2015, UK journal Disegno, commissioned us to reconsider the climate change campaign and produce a piece of work for their 2°C [...] Futures -
What’s In Your Bug-Out Bag?
On the occasion of the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial in 2014 we conducted a workshop with ten local Istanbul participants. Each was briefed to create an alternative survival kit based [...] Workshops -
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014
Under the title The Future Is Not What It Used To Be the Istanbul Foundation For Culture and the Arts (IKSV – organizers of 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial) commissioned us to [...] Exhibitions -
New Survivalism
Under the title The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts (IKSV), organizers of the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial, invited us [...] Futures -
Eco-Visionaries: Art & Architecture After The Anthropocene
The Biophotovoltaic Hacktivist kit from New Survivalism was part of the group show ‘Eco-Visionaries: Art and Architecture after the Anthropocene’ at the Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT) in [...] ExhibitionsFutures -
In Case of Emergency
“What’s the difference between a collapse, a downfall, and a downright apocalypse? How will it all end, and why do we love to wonder? Ice or fire, zombies or bombs? [...] ExhibitionsFutures -
New Survivalism: The Rewilder
Commissioned for the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, New Survivalism uses designed objects and storytelling to explore the survival strategies of a disparate set of protagonists, each with a very different [...] Futures -
New Survivalism: The SETI Reserves Member
Commissioned for the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, New Survivalism uses designed objects and storytelling to explore the survival strategies of a disparate set of protagonists, each with a very different [...] Futures -
New Survivalism: The Object Guardian
Commissioned for the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, New Survivalism uses designed objects and storytelling to explore the survival strategies of a disparate set of protagonists, each with a very different [...] Futures -
New Survivalism: The Futurist Storyteller
Commissioned for the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, New Survivalism uses designed objects and storytelling to explore the survival strategies of a disparate set of protagonists, each with a very different [...] Futures -
New Survivalism: The Decision Maker
Commissioned for the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, New Survivalism uses designed objects and storytelling to explore the survival strategies of a disparate set of protagonists, each with a very different [...] Futures -
New Survivalism: The Biophotovoltaics Hacktivist
Commissioned for the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, New Survivalism uses designed objects and storytelling to explore the survival strategies of a disparate set of protagonists, each with a very different [...] Futures -
New Survivalism Booklet
To accompany the New Survivalism bug-out bags project for the Istanbul Design Biennial, we created a tool for assessing what might be valuable to us in the not-too-distant future. A [...] Words -
Model Your Visit
Model Your Visit was a commission from the Education department of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA) to design a publication that would enhance the visitor experience, particularly for [...] Works -
Chicagoland
CHICAGOLAND was an exhibition of designed objects from Chicago based designers held at Wanted Design during New York Design Week in 2014. It showcased new work by AKMD, Chilab, Collection [...] Exhibitions -
Golden Section Finder
The golden ratio (also known as the golden section or golden mean) is a proportion commonly found in nature. Historically, artists, designers and architects have used it as a means [...] Works -
Atelier Apocalypse
Beyond the usual food and medical supplies, what would be in your ultimate survival kit? What is your must-have anti-apocalypse artifact? During the Apocalypse themed First Friday event at the [...] Events -
Home Is Where The Art Is
We were invited by contemporary art collectors and exhibition hosts Stacie McCormick and Igor Jocic to exhibit American Ad Hoc and The MeMo Organisation pieces at their Home Is Where [...] Exhibitions -
Bar Alto Atlanta
In June 2011, Parsons & Charlesworth were invited by Alexandre Bettler and Jerome Rigaud from DesignMarketo to contribute a Duralex Picardie design for their Bar Alto Atlanta exhibition during Modern [...] Exhibitions -
A Form of Happiness
A Form of Happiness is a wooden puzzle that represents the molecular structure of the neurotransmitter dopamine. As we make discoveries, receive rewards and learn, dopamine is released in the [...] Works -
The Builder’s Lounge
Designed to coincide with the exhibition Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, The Builder’s Lounge furniture installation at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago re-purposed construction site materials into ad-hoc [...] Exhibitions -
The MeMo Booklet
A collection of short stories and illustrations created to accompany the series of objects created for The MeMo Organization project. The MeMo Booklet consists of drawings and short prose to [...] Words -
The MeMo Organization
Could death really be so gentle with the help of technology? The Latin phrase memento mori, meaning, “remember you will die”, denotes objects which remind us of our mortality. What [...] Futures -
American Adhoc
American Ad Hoc is an ongoing series of objects that adapt classic American products, re-appropriating them for interior domestic use. For the first collection, a red steel wheelbarrow, a Weber [...] Works -
Adhocism Poster/Essay
This poster and essay were produced as part of our contribution to We Are Here – Art & Design Out of Context, a month-long series of art and design situations [...] Words -
Adhocism: We Are Here
The installation Adhocism was part of We Are Here – Art & Design Out of Context, a month-long series of art and design situations at the Museum of Contemporary Art [...] Exhibitions -
Alien Americana Photographs
Branded “non-resident aliens” on arrival to the US from the UK, we have traveled widely around the country in the years since and have assembled a sideways yet affectionate collection of photographs [...] Works -
Citizen Evolution
How might the city of Vienna encourage its citizens to generate new sustainable services and initiatives? How might the Viennese citizens create new social structures and dynamics if they were [...] Futures -
Project Vienna: How to React To A City
Citizen Evolution was one of three winning projects in the Project Vienna—A Design Strategy. How to React to a City competition held jointly by Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (MAK) & [...] Exhibitions -
Thinking:Objects at The Aram Gallery
Marking the launch of the book Thinking:Objects – Contemporary Approaches to Product Design, written by Tim Parsons, this exhibition took place at The Aram Gallery in London. The exhibition illustrated a [...] Exhibitions -
Thinking:Objects – Contemporary Approaches to Product Design
Thinking : Objects is a ‘text and image book’ for students, graduates, practicing designers and anyone with an interest in contemporary product design. The book looks at the many approaches [...] Words -
Pewter Collaboration
A.R. Wentworths is one of the UK’s most revered and respected pewterers. This collaboration began in 2004 with several material experiments that took place in the Wentworths factory in Sheffield. [...] Works -
Berlin Institute for the Blind
In the late 1990s, German designers Oliver Vogt and Herman Weizenegger (Vogt & Weizenegger) orchestrated a partnership with the workshops of the Berlin Institute for the Blind, a social enterprise [...] Works
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