UFƟ COLLABORATORY

UFƟ, Unidentified Facility was founded in 2017 by an international group of practitioners to connect collaborative search, research and participatory practices and since collectively explored the edges of practice. Inviting others along the way to join the investigation. The UFƟ Collaboratory is a growing platform, connecting practitioners, researchers, dreamers and doers to develop a shared pathway to frame undetected forms of design practice.

The UFƟ Collaboratory proposes new relations, between species and places, and shares the research and approaches that interpret and propose new perspectives on the designing of our (future) world. Early Greek imagination envisaged the past and the present as in front of us, something that we can see. The future was viewed as invisible, meaning that we are walking blind, backwards into the future. UFƟ re-imagines this territory, searching into new dimensional thinking and methodologies through design practice and pedagogies. (Bernard Knox, ‘Backing into the Future’ 1994).

UFƟ COLLABORATORY NETWORK built a broad network of partners, both in the academic and artistic practice. The Collaboratory is an open environment for experiment, it belongs to no one, yet includes all. It centres learning and exchange and seeks to embrace existing and emerging cosmologies.

By working as Collaboratory, UFƟ is exploring the ambiguous nature of collaboration, exchange and re-storying new territories. The network connects around the globe; Manchester Met University, Central Saint Martins, ArtEZ University, Kyoto Design Lab, Royal College of Art, Parsons University, NYC, Design Inquiry USA, Slow Research Lab NL, Johan Borgman Fonds NL, as also a span of individual practitioners such as; Fabrizio Cocchiarella, Tess Wehmeyer, Judith van den Boom, Standart Practice, Helen Carnac, Dr Ken Drinkwater, Joe Hartley, Paul Harper, Thor ter Kulve, Lisa Mandemaker, Study O Portable, Sally Titterington, Anne Vaandrager, Abbie Vickress, PG Provenzano, Andreas Lang, Alice Lee, Barbara Smith, Britt Berden, Britta Boyer, Catalina Meija Moreno, Christiano Roussado, Delfina Fantini, Eliza Collin, Emily Luce, Julian Ellerby, Kieren Jones, Kok Chian Leong, M, AKOK, Maël Henaff, Maurizo Mucciola, Natasha Freedman, Rodney Sayers, as also a large group of students who have been participating in UFƟ test-sites.

When you wish to join and expand the narrative with the UFƟ Collaboratory, please connect with UFƟ via the contact page