SENSE
Research begins with conditions in motion. It traces cultural patterns as they accumulate, circulate, and sediment across political, spatial, temporal, and synthetic environments. Quantum Culture gathers these inquiries through essays, conversations, field notes, and foresight, offering orientation within complexity rather than certainty.
Sense-making ・ Reframing・ Artistic Direction ・ Reconnaissance ・ Early diagnostics ・ Naming ・
Sense-making ・ Reframing・ Artistic Direction ・ Reconnaissance ・ Early diagnostics ・ Naming ・
Research Lineages
Investigations that emerged in particular periods and keep evolving. None of them closes when the next begins.
Intervening in postwar urban layers, memory and spatial contradictions without erasing their histories.
Investigating how sensory, material and cultural codes shape behavior; cultivating craft cognition, ethno-aesthetic acumen and ingenuity through making.
Hospitality as a living environment of care, behavior, atmosphere, social exchange and operational intelligence.
Neuroaesthetics, healing environments and the body as both sensing instrument and site of intervention.
Physical, digital and social environments reconfigured through modular systems, reverse engineering, participation, technology and play.
Cultural memory and identity excavated, recomposed and kneaded through synthetic image systems and material translation.
Agency cultivated through embodied sensing, material intelligence and counter-protocols that bend inherited defaults.
Reciprocal knowledge generated through gathering, food, embodied exchange and collective excavation.
Listening, oral traditions, sonic memory and call-and-response as forms of cultural cognition.
Investigating the material, cultural and computational conditions that enable judgment, intervention, refusal and self-determination.
Essays · Quantum Culture
Published Writing
Frequencies · Podcasts
Public Conversations
Collaborative Editions
Forecasts · Reports
Published Work *
Published Work *
A Council of References
Held in relation, never in hierarchy. Named by how each entered the practice.
carried through ancestry, place and lived transmission
- Levantine craft, repair and material memory
- Silk Road and Phoenician histories of exchange and adaptation
- isnad, the named chain of transmission
- zajal and the Levantine oral duel
- Sufi samāʿ
- Fairuz
shaped through sustained encounter and practice
- Scenography at Central Saint Martins
- Mona Hatoum
- Rei Kawakubo
- Issey Miyake
- Ernesto Oroza
- Droog Design
- Isamu Noguchi
- Maya Lin
- Nam June Paik
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Rem Koolhaas, S,M,L,XL
- Philip Glass
- Khalil Gibran
- documenta X
- Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft
- By Hand, Shu Hung & Joseph Magliaro
- Nils-Udo
- détournement
- Guy Bourdin
- experimental craft and eco-design
developed independently, later encountered in affinity
- Kōsei education: Kawakita Renshichirō, Takei Katsuo, Kōsei Kyōiku Taikei (1934)
- Tim Ingold
- Richard Sennett
- Andrew Pickering
- Jakob von Uexküll
- Kodwo Eshun†
- Anna Tsing†
- Robin D. G. Kelley†
- Sylvia Wynter†
- Pauline Oliveros†
- Robin Wall Kimmerer†
- Juhani Pallasmaa†
- Black Quantum Futurism†
- Ernesto Oroza, technological disobedience
deliberately incorporated and materially reworked
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile
- Layla AbdelRahim, undomestication
- Yuk Hui, technodiversity
- Édouard Glissant, opacity and relation†
- Donna Haraway, making kin†
- Mehdi Ha’iri Yazdi, knowledge by presence†
- Kate Crawford & Trevor Paglen, datasets and extraction†
systems and assumptions interrogated through practice
- planned obsolescence
- extractive consumption
- proprietary systems and restricted repair
- frictionless optimization
- universalist accounts of intelligence
- institutional classification of knowledge
- prediction-led foresight
concepts transformed through new conditions and relations
- Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Saidiya Hartman
- Ariella Azoulay, archival power into Future Ancestors’ counter-archive
- Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s ch’ixi, into multiplicity without assimilation
- Octavia Butler, adaptation, power and change as survival†