An installation on the San Francisco Local Code Case Study was featured as part of the exhibit The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher at SFMOMA and shown from March 31 – July 29, 2012. ...more

Historically, Venice was not confined to the dense network of isole shaped from sandbars in the early Middle Ages and cleaved by the Grand Canal. Rather, it was an interlinked archipelago stretching the length and breadth of the lagoon, in which a variety of innovative, incompatible, or inconvenient functions were diffused. Today, communities in the lagoon and its margins—tourists, residents, and commuters, alike—move separately along highly prescribed routes, yet rarely across the surface of the water that connects them. ...more

For the 2021 Venice Biennale, modem presents fragments of spacesuit history within objects that are also environments. Cross-hatching the language of reliquary and care, they are an apparatus of protection as much as of display. ...more

For the 2023 exhibition at MAXXI in Rome, titled “The Future Is Here: New Technologies and Design,” modem created a gallery-length mural in mylar film, highlighting the collaborative efforts of designers, engineers, and scientists in developing the Apollo spacesuit and its responsive design to the human body. ...more

NASA image AS17-148-22727 — the iconic “Blue Marble” — is the apex of one way of envisioning the earth; it may also offer us an important tool to imagine the earth yet to come. ...more