Futures North is a collaborative public art studio founded in 2012. We share a passion for design, innovative technologies and the construction of social art spaces. We are confidently multimodal in our practice, moving fluidly between the disciplines of art, design, urbanism, and space. A unifying theme of our work is an interest in the aesthetics of data: how new technologies can help us to visualize, reveal, understand and celebrate the diverse fields of information that flow through contemporary culture. Our practice is informed by innovative design and construction technologies, such as digital fabrication with robotic machines, computational modeling, custom software, and electronics development. The members of Futures North are also experienced in constructing large-scale interactive projects for major museums, gallery spaces, and commission-based public art exhibitions. Each has negotiated the complex process of collaborating with various clients, users, and other stakeholders to realize compelling solutions for site-specific and design/build projects.
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John Kim is a new media artist, researcher and teacher. He has published widely in journals and other print publications, and exhibited interactive works in galleries and festivals around the world, including MassMOCA, Dia Center for the Arts, and Northern Spark. John currently teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and has previously taught at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, and Williams College.
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Adam Marcus is a registered architect and educator. He directs Variable Projects, an independent architecture and research practice, and is also Associate Professor of Architecture at Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans. He previously taught for ten years at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he co-founded and directed the Architectural Ecologies Lab. From 2011 to 2013 he was the Cass Gilbert Design Fellow at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture, and he has also taught previously at Columbia University in New York and the Architectural Association Visiting School in Los Angeles. Both his professional and teaching work seeks to develop new methods of integrating digital technologies into design practice. From 2015 to 2021, Adam served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), and he currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Architectural Computing.
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Molly Reichert is an architectural researcher, designer and educator based in Minneapolis, MN. Her work integrates the disciplines of architecture, art, design, urbanism into the construction of new social spaces. Her ability to take a project from conceptual design to digital model to fabrication in physical form has allowed her to work with an unconventional set of collaborators, ranging from farmers to scientists to engineers to environmental activists. Molly is a founding faculty member of the professional Architecture degree program at Dunwoody College of Technology. Her teaching combines digital design & fabrication with interdisciplinary critical design thinking. She previously taught in the architecture departments of UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, and the University of Minnesota.
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