DJI
Drones + Aerial Photography
DJI is the market leader in easy-to-fly drones and aerial photography systems, DJI quadcopters like the Phantom are the standard in consumer drone technology. Their flying and camera stabilization systems redefine camera placement and motion. Today, DJI products are redefining industries. Professionals in filmmaking, agriculture, conservation, search and rescue, energy infrastructure, and more trust DJI to bring new perspectives to their work and help them accomplish feats safer, faster, and with greater efficiency than ever before.
Bolivia + Chile 2015 Expedition
TOBY SMITH
Photographer
Toby Smith is an award-winning contemporary reportage photographer specialising in landscape, environment and energy. Since graduating with an MA Photography from LCC his time is divided between personal, editorial and contemporary works for exhibition.
China Seas 2014 and Madagascar 2013 Expeditions
Sha is endlessly fascinated by maps, cities, data, and design.
Sha studied architecture at UC Berkeley, and worked at IwamotoScott in San Francisco and MESH Architectures in New York before falling for visualization and mapping at Stamen Design. At Stamen, Sha worked for clients like MTV, CNN, Flickr, and Adobe. After Stamen, Sha cofounded Movity, which was acquired by real estate company Trulia.
Sha has developed Meshu (http://meshu.io) and other secret projects - Sha is one of the technologists brought on by federal contractors to try to repair healthcare.gov, the federal portal for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known better as Obamacare). Sha speaks frequently at events including the Eyeo Festival, Visualized, and the White House Datapalooza, and currently advises data-driven startups and mentors aspiring digital designers.
China Seas 2014 Expedition
Tim Maughan is a British writer using both fiction and non fiction to explore issues around cities, art, class, and technology. His debut short story collection Paintwork received critical acclaim when released in 2011, and his short story Limited Edition was shortlisted for the 2012 BSFA short fiction award. He sometimes makes films, too.
China Seas 2014 Expedition
Dan is a freelance creative technologist and developer building web apps, mobile apps and physical computing things.
China Seas 2014 Expedition
Chris was born in Hong Kong in 1981 and now lives in London. He currently works as the director of photography at Flowers Gallery whilst simultaneously developing his own artistic practice.
Madagascar 2013 Expedition
Cher is a design and fashion forecaster, a Research Fellow at the V&A museum on Design Futures and has a regular column in 032C magazine on science fiction aesthetics.
Madagascar 2013 Expedition
Memo Akten is an artist, engineer and computer scientist born in Istanbul (TR), currently based in London (UK). He develops systems that abstract behaviour to create unfamiliar familiarities and encourage new perceptions on our relationship to science, nature, technology and culture.
Inspired by the processes that shape our lives, he uses the tools of science as a lens to the world. Through visual, sonic and behavioural metaphors he creates artefacts that reveal, amplify and abstract the unseen harmonies, tensions and poetry found within these phenomena. His work plays at the boundaries between abstract and figurative, and spans multiple disciplines including images, videos, sound, light, digital sculptures, dance, large scale installations, performances, software and online works.
Madagascar 2013 Expedition
Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, is the art director of Tank magazine; a quarterly UK magazine, launched in 1998, covering contemporary culture, such as art, architecture, fashion, current affairs, and music.
Madagascar 2013 Expedition
Christina Seely’s work stretches into the fields of science, design and architecture. Interested in humans’ contemporary relationship to nature and time, Professor Seely’s expedition based work finds its home in the conversation between the photographic image and our contemporary relationship with the natural world.
Alaska 2011 and USA 2012 Expeditions
Stuart Candy is a professional futurist with a design twist. He is currently regional foresight and innovation leader for the global design and engineering firm Arup, and research fellow of the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Stuart received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa for work on experiential scenarios, an approach to immersive storytelling at the intersection of futures, transmedia design, and politics.
USA 2012 Expedition
Mark Pilkington is a writer, publisher, curator and musician with particular interest in the fringes of knowledge, culture and belief. He is author of Mirage Men and Far Out!, founder of Strange Attractor Press and inveterate synth wibbler
USA 2012 Expedition
Factory Fifteen are based in London and led by directors Jonathan Gales, Paul Nicholls and Kibwe Tavares. Their backgrounds range from architecture, 3d visualisation, engineering, animation and photography. They translate this to a multi-disciplinary and distinctive approach to film making. Their creative shorts and artwork have been exhibited around the world in various film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Onedotzero, Ars Electronica, Alpha-ville, The Creators Project, Frieze Art Fair, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Royal Academy, Africa International Film Festival and London Short Film Festival.
USA 2012 Expedition
Growing up in the shadows of both N.A.S.A. and Disney in coastal Florida, Kristian knew he was either going to be an astronaut, or draw for a living. He studied at Savannah College of Art and Design, and has worked for many major publishers in the comic book industry as well as clients in apparel, film, and advertising.
USA 2012 Expedition
Neasden Control Centre is a design studio based in London. It is known for it's intuitive, process-led work across disciplines and sectors. Special thanks to Steve Smith at NCC for the graphics for this website.
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
VOLUME MAGAZINE
Volume
Volume is an independent quarterly magazine that sets the agenda for design. With going beyond architecture’s definition of ‘making buildings’ it reaches out for global views on designing environments, advocates broader attitudes to social structures, and reclaims the cultural and political significance of architecture. Created as a global idea platform to voice architecture any way, anywhere, anytime, it represents the expansion of architectural territories and the new mandate for design. Unknwon Fields Co-edited Volume 31: Guilty Landscapes
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
Dubbed the Willy Wonka of Design and Science, award-winning director and designer of experiences Nelly Ben Hayoun is a critical explorer, and a fearless and passionate provocateur. In 2013, Icon Magazine nominated Ben Hayoun as one of the 50 international designers “shaping the future”. She is the Designer of Experiences at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, Head of Experiences at We Transfer, and a member of the Space Outreach and Education committee at the International Astronautical Federation. Wired magazine awarded Nelly Ben Hayoun with a WIRED Innovation fellowship for her work to date and its potential to make ‘significant impact on the world ‘. Ben Hayoun previously collaborated with Beck, Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, Maywa Denki, George Lucas, Bruce Sterling and Penguin Café in a musical collaboration that took music into space. Blasted in space from a Japanese launch pad in August 2013
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
Philips Design Probes is a dedicated ‘far-future’ research group formed to track trends and developments that may ultimately evolve into mainstream issues that have a significant impact on technology products.
The Probes generate insights from research in five main areas; politics, economic, culture, environments and technology futures. With the aim of understanding ‘lifestyle’ post 2020, the program challenges conventional ways of thinking to come up with concepts to stimulate debate. Deliverables range from scenarios and narratives to the creation of experience prototypes, speculative products. Design Probes have designed tech augmented costumes for Lady Gaga, music videos and pieces for numerous international exhibitions and publications.
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
Will Wiles was born in India in 1978. He is deputy editor of Icon, a monthly architecture and design magazine, where for three years he has written about everything from Pot Noodles to jumbo jets. He once spent a week trying to find a Chihuahua skeleton.
His debut novel, CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS, is a black comedy of death, destruction and interior decoration. He lives in London.
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
Regina Peldszus is a design researcher interested in human technology interaction in sociotechnical systems in space and other extreme environments. She is an Internal Research Fellow at the European Space Agency, based at Studies & Special Projects/ Advanced Missions Concepts Office at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC).
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
Born 1971 - Film director and conceptual artist.
Documentary director of a.o. the award-winning To Damascus – a Film on Interpretation (2005). Founder and artistic leader of the Sound/Gallery, a 900 square meter sound diffusion system underneath the Town Hall Square in Copenhagen (1996-2001). Selected art projects include: ‘Audience (van Gogh#7)’, design of SPOR 2007, festival for new music and sound art, and ‘Public Service (van Gogh#6)’ Phase 1: Concept for a new music library in Odense, Denmark.
In addition, Michael has been guest lecturer at The Royal Danish Academy of Art, The Danish Film School, and The Danish School of Design.
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
Vincent Fournier’s images are a blend of Jules Verne and Jacques Tati, Charles Darwin and David Cronenberg, and experiment with the fictional and magnificent potential of certain forms of utopia.
"My photos question the world which surrounds us by creating shady, improbable, sometimes inconsistent situations, always on the border of serious history and childhood dreams".
Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition
Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Our program of events and publications is intended to generate dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological and disciplinary boundaries. As a public forum for emerging voices, Storefront explores vital issues in art and architecture with the intent of increasing awareness of and interest in contemporary design.
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