CHRIS WOEBKEN

  • uses futuring practices to create props, narratives and visualizations investigating the impacts as well as the aesthetic and social potentials of technologies. He runs workshops and collaborates with scientists, organizations, artists and engineers to invent and build prototypes of future services and products.

    • Recent Projects

  • NYC FORESIGHT
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  • 99¢ FUTURES
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  • A HISTORY OF SPECULATION
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  • VENUE
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  • THE FUTURE OF WRITING EVERYTHING
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  • FORECLOSED
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  • FUTURELABCAMP
  • IMG_0839
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  • DIAL 3-1-1
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  • LEVI'S CUBES

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  • BAT BILLBOARD
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  • BACK TO THE FUTURES

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  • AMPHIBIOUS ARCHITECTURE
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  • COLLABORATION BIRDHOUSE
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  • BEETLE WRESTLER

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  • MOTH
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  • ANIMAL SUPERPOWERS
  • antbirdgiraffe
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  • FUTURE OF MONEY
  • ethical?time is money?
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  • NEW SENSUAL INTERFACES
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    Collaborators

    Autodesk Research
    Intel Labs
    Microsoft Research
    frog
    Nearfuturelab
    Stefan Sagmeister
    Natalie Jeremijenko
    David Benjamin
    Richard The
    Dunne & Raby
    Kenichi Okada
    Daniel Goddemeyer
    Kyle McDonald
    Genspace
    Mac Cowell
    Sascha Pohflepp
    MOS
    Elliott P. Montgomery
    Zach Lieberman
    Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley
    Leigha Dennis
    Rhianon Morgan-Hatch

    Education

    2006-2008 MA RCA Design Interactions (London)
    2001-2003 Interactive Design Apprenticeship (Hamburg)

    Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships

    2013 Core 77 Design Awards - Winner Speculative Design
    2011 TED Fellow
    2008-2009 Visiting Scholar, Environmental Health Clinic, NYU, (NYC)

    Lectures, Talks & Teaching

    2013 "Extrapolation Factory", Futuring Workshop, Studio-x, (NYC)
    2013 Filmworkshop, Art Center College of Design, (Pasadena)
    2013 Prototyping Futures, Lecture at SVA Interaction Design, (NYC)
    2012 Narrative Design and Filmmaking Workshop, RISD Digital + Media (Providence)
    2012 Lecture at Columbia University, Infrastructure Hacking, (NYC)
    2011 Camera Hacking Nightschool, Studio-X (NYC)
    2011 Narrative Design and Filmmaking Workshop, RISD Digital + Media (Providence)
    2011 Futurelabcamp Biotech Un-conference (NYC, Boston)
    2011 "Lost", Workshop at Syracuse University (Syracuse)
    2011 "DNA Snp's and Service Design", Lecture at Cooper Union, , (NYC)
    2011 Lecture at MIT Tangible Media Group, (Cambridge)
    2011 Thrilling Wonderstories, (NYC)
    2011 TED Fellows Talk (Long Island)
    2011 Quantified Self, (NYC)
    2010 Interaction Design, School of Visual Arts, (NYC)
    2010 UDK, Digitale Klasse, (Berlin)
    2010 lucid, (NYC)
    2010 Disney Research, CMU (Pittsburg)
    2010 dorkbot, (NYC)
    2010 lift-conference, (Geneva)
    2010 Conflux, (NYC)
    2010 Invisible Behaviors, NYU ITP (NYC)
    2008-2009 Teaching Assistant for Natalie Jeremijenko's class, NYU (NYC)

    Selected Exhibitions

    2013 NYC Foresight, Spacebuster, curated by Storefront of Art and Architecture, (NYC)
    2013 "99¢ Futures", Opening, Downtown Brooklyn, (NYC)
    2013 "Die Zukunft fotografieren" with Sascha Pohflepp, curated by Esther Ruelfs, commissioned by the Goethe Institute, (Moscow)
    2012 Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, helped the MOS team with their cinematography, MoMA (NYC)
    2011 Dial 3-1-1 @ Bring to Light Festival, Greenpoint (NYC)
    2011 Design Triennale, curated by Dunne & Raby, China National Museum (Beijing)
    2011 Landscape Futures, curated by Geoff Manaugh, Nevada Museum of Art (Reno)
    2011 Talk to me, curated by Paola Antonelli, MoMA (NYC)
    2011 Virtual Futures 2.0, (Warwick)
    2011 MADE UP, Artcenter (Pasadena)
    2010 between-between, Gallery Between, (London)
    2010 BIODIVERCITY: 47 Important Ideas and Technologies for the Urban Environment, curated by Natalie Jeremijenko, (Washington DC)
    2010 Demo:Mode, (Geneva)
    2009 What if..., curated by Dunne & Raby, Sciencegallery (Dublin)
    2009 Confines, curated by Aaron Betsky, IVAM (Valencia)
    2009 Designersblock, London Design Festival (London)
    2008 Biennale internationale Design, (St. Etienne)
    2008 Design and the Elastic Mind, curated by Paola Antonelli,MoMA (NYC)

    Publications

    2013 Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions
    2012 Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
    2011 Talk to Me (Bat Billboard, Future of Money, Animal Superpowers)
    2011 See Yourself Sensing (Animal Superpowers)
    2009 Axis Magazine »Advanced Design Research« Volume #142 (Beetle Wrestler)
    2009 Birkhaeuser, Smart Surfaces (Sensual Interfaces)
    2009 Gestalten, Play All Day (Animal Superpowers)
    2009 Axis Magazine »When a designer becomes a Researcher« Volume #139 (A New Relationship to Money)
    2009 Archistorm Magazine (Sensual Interfaces)
    2008 Good Magazine (Animal Superpowers)
    2008 Icon Magazine Volume #63 (A New Relationship to Money)
    2008 Design and the Elastic Mind Catalog (flicflex, Sensual Interfaces)

    Contact

    email: hello@chriswoebken.com
    phone: +1.415.774.6463
    skype: chriswoebken
    metaverse: Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Vimeo
    studio: New Lab, Chris Woebken, 63 Flushing Ave, Building 280, Suite 814, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA