Hello! I am Ami,
I am interested in learning from and telling stories about the many worlds that create our own.
I hope to understand how design can embrace multiplicity and create coexistent futures.
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An investigation into the life of a major Brooklyn street, that is closed to cars and open to pedestrians every weekend, revealing the future of a city wherein cars may cease to exist
A look at informality within Kigali city through the lens of the moto-taxi attempting to render visible current ways of life and resist erasure in a climate of rapid redevelopment.
A speculative design studio attempting to envision the future of New York City skyscrapers from the perspective of pandemic living, wholly dependent on delivery and fulfillment centers
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A fabrication design studio involving glass blowing with the use of CNC’ed plaster molds, creating artifacts that then are re-interpreted in the context of abandoned Silo City in Buffalo
Challenged to create an indoor lighting fixture, this studio connected precedents from literature and nature to inspire a parametrically designed, laser-cut, plexiglass sculpture evoking the awe-inducing phenomenon of alpenglühen or alpenglow
This Montessori challenged a two-person design team to create an extension to an existing space in 12 weeks to be constructed immediately for the new school year. Ideas of tactility, materiality, color and form were introduced to support the Montessori method of education.
The beginnings of a public art practice, triple entendre is a team of three architects and artists attempting to bring joy and delight to community spaces through the creation of fictional universes that tickle the brain into imagining alternate futures
