Swoop decoration.
Swoop decoration.

On Building Something You Cannot Keep

Shanice Otersen

I fell in love with biodesign during my Master’s studies at the Kolding School of Design in a small city in the south of Denmark. Originally from Germany and educated as a fashion designer, I had come to study sustainable design, but every morning when I woke up to work on my thesis, I felt like my lungs were tied down. Biodesign allowed me to breathe again. 

Storytelling Experience: Hallucinations, Divorce

Sue Huang

I am in the living room in Oregon with my mother gazing at the China cabinet. “Take this,” she says, handing me tchotchkes and crystals from the cabinet, “and this… And this.”

Swoop decorations.