Operational Framework - 2025
Greg Laboratory Season 5 Presentation
A live performance exploring the structure, rituals, and gestures of contemporary life. Two performers, outfitted in pieces from Greg Laboratory seven-piece collection, move through a loop of calibrated tasks.
Through uniform, gesture, and space, this performance renders the modern day not chaotic, but composed.
Thank you for trusting me with this and thank you everyone what helped@make this happen.
Client: @greglaboratory
Art direction/set design: @joshitiola
Event production: @sesameprojects@anjflo
Furniture design: @edgarbarciaa
Soundscape: @itsaliese
Design assist: @filipsunfire
Production: @bondukestudio@tonyjarum@tems@tImtri@venteeeeeeeee
Model: @itsaliese
Model: @inesjunger
Slowhouse
Diller + Scofidio
Long Island, New York
1981 (unbuilt)
Designed for a Japanese art collector as a weekend residence, the house was situated on a 60-foot sand bluff overlooking Great Peconic Bay. The concept was centered around maximizing and emphasizing the view. The architects described the design as “a passage, a door that leads to a window… a physical entry to an optical departure.”
New ✍🏿 for Local Optimist Issue 04: Pathways
“In Pursuit of Harmony”
I've been a big fan of Dean Edmonds (@bermudatrips ) and Natsumi Sashida (@natsumisashida ) for years, admiring both their work and their working relationship. For this issue, I had the pleasure of sitting down with them to explore the intricacies of their collaboration and the perfection of the prototype."
Read now at @localoptimist
New ✍🏿 for Untapped Edition 002
Made You Look
Nancy Holt, a self-proclaimed “perception artist,” used her System Works series to shed light on often-overlooked architectural systems like plumbing, electricity, and ventilation. By bringing these hidden systems into view, Holt exposed our unconscious dependence on them. More than just an exploration of infrastructure, System Works served as a call to action. Holt urged us to reflect on how these basic technologies interact with nature, warning that, in the name of progress, the environment is often carelessly and blindly harmed.
Grab your copy and read more @untappedjournal
✍🏿 New for @capsule.global , Issue 3
The Icehotel, Jukkasjarvi, Sweden - 1989
Mathmos Lava Lamp by Ross Lovegrove - 2000
Out now at @capsule.global
Egg Container .402
2024
Epoxy Resin, Acrylic paint
The center - a void, excavated where efficient. A specific space for an object, in this case an egg. The container - something translucent, something opaque: mysterious, revealing. A vessel for a void.
This container was designed as part of @helloyowie inaugural “Egg Cup Show” in Philadelphia, PA. I worked closely with designer and fabricator @t.neropen to conceptualize, test, and produce the final product which both of us were excited about. My goal was to design a functional dish that also acts as a piece of decoration. But if I may be completely honest, I wanted to create an object that was so visually captivating that you wouldn’t think to use it. Making it more decoration than dish.
My inspiration came from two projects that I tend to revisit from time to time. First, being Enzo Mari’s research into the relationship between the container and the contained (Relazioni tra contenuti e contenitori). This research resulted in a series of 4 pieces. These were large resin cubes which cubic or spheric volumes in the center of the cube. These volumes were achieved by solid objects or grating and silkscreen points. The second project was the competition model for OMA’s Très Grande Bibliothèque. This project was presented as a large, cube shaped building whose internal rooms or programs were to be seemly carves out of the interior of this cube. Model maker and artist Vincent de Rijk and his studio a the time Atelier of Parthesius & de Rijk designed the model. Which was a made from a clear epoxy resin which allowed the internal programs of the library to be visible from the outside.
This project is continuous and may see other variations in the future.
“The city that makes people aware of tradition and history often maintains a strong critical spirit at the root. A city is always exposed to something “new,” and the city has developed incorporating new things as if they had existed for a long time. The city is susceptible to new things, and because of it, it is able to criticize what is happening in the city. To put it another way, the history creates a “newness,” that is the future.” - Yauso Kondo
Tradition or history maintains a strong critical philosophy in its root. What happens when design is used to challenge this philosophy in hopes to influence the future?
Having the opportunity to work with Gaetano was one of the most exciting and fulfilling design nerd moments I have experienced. Seeing and capturing first hand the creation of some of my favorite design pieces is something I’ll never forget. Thank you @salon94design@jeannegr@jackie__greenberg@gotranggo@zoealexanderfisher@alisa_maria for trusting me.
Thank you Gaetano, for everything! You’ll truly be missed 🫡💔
A couple weeks ago we visited @vitsoe planner @joshitiola at home to talk about his book collection.
Josh’s relationship to books runs deep with both an author and a rare books librarian in his family. During our conversations he shared his passion for research (always seeking to learn the reference’s reference’s reference), his love of The Matrix, and his habit of re-reading Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels once a year.
He’s currently reading Project Without Form, a book that recounts the progress and history of the namesake 1989 laboratory at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture headed by Rem Koolhaas, in which designers from different disciplines work on three competition challenges at the same time.
After chatting about his collection and reading habits, we asked Josh to recommend a few titles we should add to the library, which we’ve since purchased with a portion of February’s membership dues. A small piece of Josh’s collection joins ours as the following titles are now available for loan through Resource:
- Ingo Maurer: Making Light
- Please Do Not Touch: And Other Things You Couldn’t Do at Moss the Design Store That Changed Design
- Sourcebook of Modern Furniture (Third Edition)
Thank you, Josh!
Photos by @alisonbeshai
