F.A.R. Faculty in Residence Project
In 2018, I was invited to be the Visiting Faculty in Residence at The Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University. The main mission at FAR is to encourage collaboration in the arts and beyond and to help facilitate these interactions I took on the task of re-imagining and designing the functionality of the shared space that exists between FAR’s three Special Project spaces: Commabox, Small Craft Advisory Press, and REBOOT. The room’s new design provided a comfortable and inviting seating area to host collaborative work sessions, talks by visiting artists, view presentations by current faculty, providing a hub for creative exchange between artists, educators, and students.
During my time in residency, I researched and drew inspiration from the my fellow faculty members who directed the Project spaces and researched artists, Hélio Oiticica, Fritz Haeg as well as designers, Victor Papanek and James Hennessy and their popular 1973 book, “Nomadic Furniture - how to build and where to buy lightweight furniture that folds, inflates, knocks down, stacks, or is disposable and can be recycled.” that led to my programming a series of events and graduate student workshops, all of which worked toward shifting the social dynamic.