Afoam

e design spaces, objects, and processes spanning the boundaries of art, user experience, graphic design, and urbanism, often through collaboration with artists and other designers. The team grew from a multi-year social sculpture project, 601 Tully, in Syracuse, NY, where as students we designed and fabricated a community space for arts, education, and literacy in Syracuse’s Near West Side. A few years later, faced with the daunting task of developing a design-build installation in our first years out of school, we started a company that has evolved to offer a focused range of services that aligns with our skill set and interests. We believe in a process of critical naiveté, bringing a mindset that questions each problem anew, attempting to bar preconceptions from the process of how we approach a given project. We create exchange, debate, and conversation in and about parties, buildings, events, data visualization, and web sites. Making and fabrication are inherent to, and inform our practice, and we will work in whatever medium is appropriate for a given challenge. We enjoy working with communities and end-users closely, to create new ideas, objects, and experiences to bring people together. Current projects range from an artist-in-residency on a former farm in Bordeaux, France to designing temporary museums for a start-up, as well as residential and retail spaces.