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KULTURFOLGER

Kulturfolger are defined as animals that thrive in a cultured landscape and actively engage with our human habitat. These organisms move through the city with tiny wings, blown by the wind- or crawl carefully along mossy damp walls of clustered apartment buildings.
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2015 Expanded Environment Awards: MONSTER

SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT The Expanded Environment wants your multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, impure, unholy design proposals. Show us your ideas about how extreme combinations of architectural form, material, and programs can reshape not only our built worlds but the way we think of them.
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Gulf Coast Green

We are happy to announce that Ned Dodington will be speaking at this year's Gulf Coast Green Symposium Healthy Communities - Vitality in Placemaking. Ned will be delivering a talk titled: Other Than Human; Notes on Anthro-Eccentric Design. The talk will focus on recent thinking about the importance of considering non-human agents in the design process. He will show-case leading-edge work in the field as well as "on-the-boards" projects for a forth-coming exhibition.
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On Resiliency; Part 2

Previously, I had outlined thoughts about current happenings and the implications of resilience to enframe not only human but non-human subjectivity into a state-sanctioned political apparatus. I’m interested to add two other voices to this discussion - Timothy Morton and Tim Ingold.
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Beastly Designs

Zoos are strange, wondrous and beguiling institutions. They are instructive and detrimental, compassionate and cruel, culturally specific but universally appealing and architecturally unlike any other construction.
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On Resiliency; Part 1

Recent articles published by Ross Exo Adams, Bruce Braun, and Marc Neocleous, in response to two major works on resilient design, the Rising Current's show at MoMA in 2010 and the more recent Rebuild By Design show illustrate that "resilience", is not necessarily the all-positive, progressive and knowledgeable term that I had once embraced.
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Follow-up: Interview with Rona Binay

Recently our founder and editor Ned Dodington was able to catch-up with Rona Binay, a young designer working in New York and the author of the previously posted project "Coexist." She was generous enough to share some of her thoughts with him. Here's what they discussed.
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Anthro-Eccentric Practice

An anthro-eccentric practice, on the other hand, if that were possible (the jury’s out on this) would reshape the role of the human before it reshaped the environment. It would consider impacts of changes in the environment from a variety of perspectives. It would reinforce living in the world, rather on the world.
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Update: Nature’s Toolbox

On September 4th, 2014 Ned Dodington delivered the inaugural lecture at the University of Northern Iowa's School of art to a filled auditorium of students, faculty and guests. A recording of the lecture, in full, can be viewed at the link below.
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Coexist: MFA Thesis from Rona Binay

SVA (School of Visual Arts) Product Design student Rona Binay’s MFA thesis entitled, ‘COEXIST, Mixing with Urban Wildlife’ transgresses the relationship between the "urban" and the "natural" through a series of four design interventions.
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Nature’s Toolbox

Nature’s Toolbox is a broadly themed show organized around the power of art and artists to instigate positive global environmental corrections, stimulating biodiversity, increasing public awareness and hopefully reducing the more harmful actions of humans on our home.
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The Cross-Species Design Imperative

The cross-species design imperative, first and foremost is a logical next step in the larger environmental movement. After decades of conserving energy and preserving environments, The Expanded Environment invites designers to become pro-active, shifting language from mere “conservation” and “responsibility” to "engaging" and "activating" those environments and the biological agents within them.