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Our project “Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire” is out as a book published by ORO Editions (@oro_editions ) and available to ship now. Copies can be ordered through Amazon, even though they feature an old draft of the cover. Special thanks to Clare Lyster and Robert Fishman for their contributions. . Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire is a spatio-political satire that speculates on the complex reciprocity between who we are and where we live; between the identities of political subjects and the built environments that support them.

The 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙝𝙪𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚 is open until April 10 as part of the Works + Words Biennale ✨ After being exhibited in Italy last fall, our interactive installation has moved to Denmark and is available for use in the library at the Aarhus School of Architecture. Visitors are invited to share a table with friends, strangers, and tech. Sign-in, browse, and celebrate connection—digital, social, and tectonic 💻☕️🛠️ ——— Huge thanks to the @worksandwords curatorial team for selecting our project and for providing support ahead of the opening. Additionally, thanks to students Niklas Lillelund and Jakob Hersig for their assistance during install, as well as Suzanne and Sebastian, and to @kz.lower for his fabrication expertise. ——— This project was made possible with support from @umich.taubmancollege and @inca_eu . ——— Image 2 + 9: from the “Cyberia” cafe in London, 1994 Image 7: from the “Cybersmith” cafe in Cambridge, 1995

The 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙝𝙪𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚 is now open as part of the Works + Words Biennale ✨ After being exhibited in Italy last fall, our interactive installation has moved to Denmark and is available for use in the library at the Aarhus School of Architecture until April 10. Visitors are invited to share a table with friends, strangers, and tech. Sign-in, browse, and celebrate connection—digital, social, and tectonic 💻☕️🛠️ ——— Huge thanks to the @worksandwords curatorial team for selecting our project and for providing support ahead of the opening. Additionally, thanks to students Niklas Lillelund and Jakob Hersig for their assistance during install, as well as Suzanne and Sebastian, and to @kz.lower for his fabrication expertise. ——— This project was made possible with support from @umich.taubmancollege and @inca_eu . ——— Image 4: from the “@ cafe” in New York, 1995

𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒑𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒔 is a miniature infrastructure for connection and disconnection. It is both a media-archeological recovery of the raree—a form of peep show that emerged in Europe in the 15th century—and a 1/8” = 1’ scale model of an anti-antenna for the city of Chicago. An anti-antenna is an imaginary technology used to make place possible in the 21st century. If a regular antenna connects a point in space to multiple other points in space through the reception of electromagnetic waves, an anti-antenna reconnects a point in space to *its point in space* by resisting those waves, the onslaught of digital distraction they sponsor, and the claim they make on time. The project is composed of six vertically stacked 2’x2’x2’ frame units assembled from 1/2”-diameter aluminum tubes with custom black rubberized fittings at the corners of the units. Inside the frame are multiple raree-like volumes composed of faraday fabric, a composite textile that has been woven with copper thread in order to block the transmission of electromagnetic waves. Within are tiny interior worlds, cut off from the pervasiveness of digitally regulated time. By viewing through lensed apertures in each capsule, visitors are invited to experience a different vantage of the surrounding Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center. In these views, the gallery has also been covered in faraday fabric, blurring the distinction between the inside of the capsule and the outside of the gallery. In each scene, an ill-defined reflective sphere floats in and out of the frame. Somewhat amorphous, answering to alternative physics, the slow-motion of the sphere seems to exist out of time, in order to return viewers to their time and space. Visitors are invited to engage the installation in the round—to view through peepholes in various surfaces and negotiate one another in space, as they engage the enclosed worlds within through slow and durational examination. —— Currently on view at the @chicagoarchitecturebiennial until February 28, 2026. Thanks to @martin_like_the_tvshow , @kz.lower , and Nancy Lynch for their assistance, and to all our friends who have stopped by to take a peek 👀

𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚 investigates the spatiality of the digital through a media-archeological recovery of the early internet cafe. In an age of Big-Tech and ubiquitous digital connectivity, the internet cafe is a relic of a time when the internet revealed itself as place. Today, most are free to browse the web in the comfort of their homes: curtains drawn and nestled behind the veil of iPhone’s privacy mode. We surrender to feedback loops of online advertising tailored towards our individuated data profiles, and we seek out digital communities of consensus to reinforce our political and social ideologies. But if we look back at cyber history we might see the early internet cafe as a complexly negotiated social space that could counter our divisively siloed and corporate-regulated media habits. We might then also understand the internet itself as a social space—one coexistent with the space of internet access. In this light, the internet cafe recalls its Habermasian namesake as a venue for the emergence of public life through encounters with difference, virtual and IRL.  Drawing on analyses of internet cafes between the years 1994 and 1995, our project aspires to spatially re-socialize the internet by staging critical relationships between people, technology, and food. The cafe is assembled from a melange of building component systems, hacked to playfully unite through custom-designed brackets. Tabletops sheer off of their frames in order to destabilize digital and dinner habits, and to create visual and spatial relationships across surfaces and guests. We invite visitors to share a table with friends, strangers, and tech. Sign-in, browse, and celebrate connection—digital, social, and tectonic. ——— Currently on view September 20–October 12 in the historic Sala d’Ercole of Palazzo d’Accursio as part of “Data Materialities,” an exhibition curated by @carmen_lael_hines and Into the Black Box with works by @billuartmc and @r.silvac . Huge thanks to @kz.lower for making this happen 🛠️ ——— Following last week’s conversation between @benjgerdes and @slutty_urbanist , there will be a conversation with @fangedluamena and @radicalcartographies on October 8 at 18:00.

𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚 investigates the spatiality of the digital through a media-archeological recovery of the early internet cafe. In an age of Big-Tech and ubiquitous digital connectivity, the internet cafe is a relic of a time when the internet revealed itself as place. Today, most are free to browse the web in the comfort of their homes: curtains drawn and nestled behind the veil of iPhone’s privacy mode. We surrender to feedback loops of online advertising tailored towards our individuated data profiles, and we seek out digital communities of consensus to reinforce our political and social ideologies. But if we look back at cyber history we might see the early internet cafe as a complexly negotiated social space that could counter our divisively siloed and corporate-regulated media habits. We might then also understand the internet itself as a social space—one coexistent with the space of internet access. In this light, the internet cafe recalls its Habermasian namesake as a venue for the emergence of public life through encounters with difference, virtual and IRL.  Drawing on analyses of internet cafes between the years 1994 and 1995, our project aspires to spatially re-socialize the internet by staging critical relationships between people, technology, and food. The cafe is assembled from a melange of building component systems, hacked to playfully unite through custom-designed brackets. Tabletops sheer off of their frames in order to destabilize digital and dinner habits, and to create visual and spatial relationships across surfaces and guests. We invite visitors to share a table with friends, strangers, and tech. Sign-in, browse, and celebrate connection—digital, social, and tectonic. ——— Currently on view September 20–October 12 in the historic Sala d’Ercole of Palazzo d’Accursio as part of “Data Materialities,” an exhibition curated by @carmen_lael_hines and Into the Black Box. Huge thanks to @kz.lower for making this happen 🛠️

Our ✨Internet Cafe✨ opens this Saturday, September 20 as part of the “Data Materialities” exhibition in Bologna, Italy ☕️💻 Opening: September 20, 5:00pm Location: Sala d’Ercole, Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna On view until October 12 The exhibition co-curated by @carmen_lael_hines and Into the Black Box features projects by @extents.us , @billuartmc , and @r.silvac exploring the material impact of digital technologies and data capitalism on the production of space through various media. The exhibition includes a public program of talks and meetings that invite reflection and dialogue on Big Data, platforms, and alternative digital futures with @fangedluamena , @slutty_urbanist , @benjgerdes , and @radicalcartographies . Data Materialities is an exhibition within the framework of the EU Horizon+ project increasing Corporate Political Responsibility and Accountability, emerging from the October 2024 residency Big Tech and Counter-Technologies. Questions of labor, logistics, infrastructure, and space run through each of the projects to ask: What is the spatiality of the digital? And how can we propose to visualize alternative imaginaries? Visual identity @soju.studio

Our project “Time Capsules: An Anti-Antenna for the City of Chicago” opens this Friday, September 19 as part of the @chicagoarchitecturebiennial . Thank you to @flor_ness for inviting us to participate 💫 More photos and info coming soon…

Big news! Last week, @mclainclutter was promoted to Professor of Architecture with tenure and @cyruspenarroyo was promoted to Associate Professor of Architecture with tenure @umich.taubmancollege 🎢

More pics of 🧱Holding Pattern🛠️ a workshop supporting the diverse ecosystem of vacant building reuse in Cincinnati. Building on over a year of research and conversations with Cincinnati organizations, the workshop piloted a newly designed game that shares knowledge about the process of vacant building reuse. The game engages players in the actors, materials, and processes of reuse through an imaginative blend of physical and digital game components. Community leaders from across the region met at Mark de Jong’s Swing House and Smoke House in Camp Washington to participate in the first iteration of the workshop. . We hope to roll out more of these workshops in spring/summer. Stay tuned, or DM us if you’re interested in more details! . . . Holding Pattern Game, Workshop, and Furniture Design: @rebuildcollectivearch (De Peter Yi, Wendy Hahn, Zach Lewis, Liv Adkins, James Hummeldorf) Augmented Reality Game Graphics and Projection Design: @extents.us (Cyrus Peñarroyo, Xuanshu Lin) Workshop Partners: @uc_daap @daapsaid @taubmancollege @buildingvalue @markdejong11 (Swing House and Smoke House) @cincinnati_port @heartofnorthside @corryvillecdc @cincinnatipreservation Workshop Photography: Ayoub Adil . . . This workshop was supported, in part, by the @taubmancollege TVLab Fund for Experimental Inquiry.

On November 2nd, @extents.us collaborated with @rebuildcollectivearch and @cincinnatireusecollective on 🔨 Holding Pattern, a workshop supporting the diverse ecosystem of vacant building reuse in Cincinnati. Building on over a year of research and conversations with Cincinnati organizations, the workshop piloted a newly designed game that shares knowledge about the process of vacant building reuse. The game engages players in the actors, materials, and processes of reuse through an imaginative blend of physical and digital game components. Community leaders from across the region met at Mark de Jong’s Swing House and Smoke House in Camp Washington to participate in the first iteration of the workshop. More to come! . . . Holding Pattern Game, Workshop, and Furniture Design: @rebuildcollectivearch (De Peter Yi, Wendy Hahn, Zach Lewis, Liv Adkins, James Hummeldorf) Augmented Reality Game Graphics and Projection Design: @extents.us (Cyrus Peñarroyo, Xuanshu Lin) Workshop Partners: @uc_daap @daapsaid @taubmancollege @buildingvalue @markdejong11 (Swing House and Smoke House) . . . This workshop was supported, in part, by the @taubmancollege TVLab Fund for Experimental Inquiry.

Cincinnati Reuse Collective (@cincinnatireusecollective ) presents 🧱Holding Pattern, a workshop supporting the diverse ecosystem of vacant building reuse in Cincinnati. Building on over a year of research and conversations with Cincinnati organizations, the workshop pilots a newly designed game that shares knowledge about the process of vacant building reuse. The game engages players in the actors, materials, and processes of reuse through an imaginative blend of physical and digital game components. The first iteration of the workshop will take place Saturday, November 2nd, at the Swing House in Cincinnati. DM for more details. . . . Holding Pattern Game, Workshop, and Furniture Design: @rebuildcollectivearch (De Peter Yi, Wendy Hahn, Zach Lewis, Liv Adkins, James Hummeldorf) Augmented Reality Game Graphics and Projection Design: @extents.us (Cyrus Peñarroyo, Xuanshu Lin) Workshop Partners: @uc_daap @daapsaid @taubmancollege @buildingvalue @markdejong11 Swing House