GrowHouse NYC
GrowHouse NYC is an antidisciplinary organization founded by Shanna Sabio and Warner Sabio whose work sits at the intersection of art and technology, activism and entrepreneurship, education and travel. Through project-based learning, travel, and co-living spaces for Black, Indigenous, and non-white LatinX folks, we strive to create a community of lifelong and nontraditional learners who are looking for safe spaces to experiment with emerging art and technology.
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Mirelle Q. Phillips is the Founder and Principal of Studio Elsewhere, a bio-experiential design company and research practice merging immersive, interactive technology and regenerative design to support rehabilitation, human performance, stress resilience, mental health, and palliative care. Studio Elsewhere creates physical and virtual spaces, powered by integrated technology solutions, centered around the needs of healthcare professionals, researchers, and patients. Merging the best aspects of a design studio, technology company, and scientific research lab, the Studio's model allows for true partnerships with clients to reimagine the experience of health, wellness, and care. Studio Elsewhere has been selected to represent the first ever New York City pavilion at the 2021 London Design Biennale and selected to design the United Nations Pavilion for the World Expo 2021. Phillips is a graduate of Dartmouth College and previously led Experiential Design in the video game industry.
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Intelligent Mischief is a Brooklyn-based creative studio unleashing Black imagination to shape the future, co-founded by Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall. Their purpose is to boost invention and imagination, re-align action logic, and experiment with new forms of culture & civil society to create atmospheres of change. They cultivate community and create multi-platform stories, experiences, and ephemera, and engage in collaborations at the intersection of social justice, art, design, and culture. They work with people across the African Diaspora to cultivate the creative potential of our peoples to create new realities. Their work builds on the Black Radical tradition and cultural movements such as the Black Arts Movement, Afro-surrealism, Afro Futurism, Visionary Fiction, Black Radical Imagination, Freedom Dreaming and more.
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A+A+A is an architecture and design collective led by Andrea Chiney, Arianna Deane, and Ashely Kuo. Founded in 2018 with the belief that design impacts all people, everywhere (for better or worse), A+A+A makes the process more collaborative, inclusive, sustainable, transparent and fun. Working at all scales, they take ideas and make them into physical objects, experiences, and spaces. The common thread is their approach: the design process should include the people that it serves. By bringing together diverse collaborators, communities and clients, the product becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Their past work includes feasibility studies, workshops, exhibition design, public installations, and programming.
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