Commissioned projects

Selected clients

University of Michigan
- Institute for Social Research
  - Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)
    - Justice Outcomes Explorer (JOE) NEW *
      joe.cjars.org
      With Hyperobjekt and United States Census Bureau
University of California
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  - UCLA School of Law
    - Critical Race Studies
      - CRT Forward Tracking Project NEW *
        crtforward.law.ucla.edu
        With by Hyperobjekt
    - The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law NEW *
      promiseinstitute.law.ucla.edu
      With by Hyperobjekt
Stanford University
- The Educational Opportunity Project
  edopportunity.org
  - The Segregation Explorer NEW *
    edopportunity.org/segregation
    With by Hyperobjekt
Amnesty International
- Middle East & North Africa Regional Office
  - Seventy Years of Suffication *
    nakba.amnesty.org
    Design by Ziv Schneider; photos by Tanya Habjouqa
Brooklyn Public Library
- Strategic Plan 2018, NOW ➞ NEXT *
  bklynlibrary.org/strategicplan (embedded)
  Design by MTWTF
Candid (Foundation Center / GuideStar)
- 2019 annual report *
  ~~candid.org/••••••~~ (internal)
  Design by Open
- Institutional style guide *
  ~~candid.org/••••••~~ (internal)
  Design by Open
- Launch announcement page *
  ~~candid.org~~ (offline)
  Design by Open
Center for Architecture
- Archtober 2018 *
  2018.archtober.org
  Design by MTWTF
City of New York
- Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) *
  nychvs.cityofnewyork.us
  Design by Wkshps and WeShouldDoItAll
Data & Society
- Digital Privacy and Data Literacy Project quiz §
  dataprivacyproject.org/quiz (embedded)
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) *
iscp.org
Design by Other Means
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
- Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex *
  ~~icaphila.org/day-without-art-2015~~ (view archived)
  Project by Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy
- Interactive Tours * ‡
  jclandmarks.org/interactive-tours (embedded)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- MIT Technology Review
  - The state of artificial intelligence *
    technologyreview.com/... (embedded; view fullscreen)
    Design by Open
The New School
- Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence * ‡
  mellon.newschool.org
New York University (NYU)
- Center for Religion & Media
  - The Revealer * ‡
    therevealer.org
State University of New York
- Purchase College
  - School of Art+Design
    ~~purchase.design~~ (offline)
    - Graphic Design BFA Program * ‡
      Built with students of Purchase College’s Graphic Design, New Media, and Arts Management programs; led by Professor Jessica Wexler
Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA)
- Tokyo 2014 Announcement * ‡
  ~~rbma2014participants.com~~ (view archived)
  Design by Other Means and Sasha Portis
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Rutgers University-Newark
  - Humanities Action Lab
    - Climates of Inequality *
      climatesofinequality.org
      Design by MTWTF
    - Rikers Public Memory Project §
      rikersmemoryproject.org
Textile Arts Center *
textileartscenter.com
Design by Halves
Yale University
- Linguistics Department
  - Yale Grammatical Diversity Project *
    ygdp.yale.edu (embedded; view fullscreen)
    Design by Jack Design
- School of Architecture
  - New Haven Building Archive *
    ~~nhba.yale.edu~~ (offline)
    Design by Sasha Portis and Ben Fehrman-Lee

Collaborations

Follow Your Waste NEW
followyourwaste.nyc
Project with the Sanitation Foundation; illustrations by Haruka Aoki; UX design by Jon Packles; animations by Malavika Srinivasan
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In the style of an interactive children’s book, Follow Your Waste, showcases the processes, facilities, and workers of New York City’s waste system as well as its crucial importance in the life of our city and its residents. At the site’s beginning, visitors are tested by a drag-and-drop sorting game. After placing an item into the correct bin—either paper and cardboard; metal, glass, and plastic; landfill trash; or organics—you’re taken on an animated journey to each step of that item’s life after disposal. You’ll see everything from the familiar, sanitation workers collecting waste in your neighborhood, to the behind-the-scenes magic, the complex sorting systems and surprising new life of properly recycled items. My civilian collaborators, Haruka Aoki and Jon Packles, and myself volunteered with the official non-profit of NYC’s Department of Sanitation to conceive of and build an educational tool for the organization to display at public events. Through over a year of waste systems research, facility visits, and putting our respective crafts to the job, we created what is now the Follow Your Waste website. The project then expanded to include a set of related lesson plans. Through a partnership with the City’s Department of Education, the website and lesson plans will be distributed for free to teachers to share with the over one-million students enrolled in our public schools. Learn more about the project:
- Sanitation Foundation: Follow Your Waste (page)
- NYCxREUSE: Project launch at the donateNYC’s Kids Reuse Fair (event)
Four Corners Project
fourcornersproject.org
Project led by Fred Ritchin; project managed by Perri Hofmann; with assistance from Nora Savosnick
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Built on the decades of ideas and practices written, taught, and put into action through innovative multimedia journalism works by Fred Ritchin, the Four Corners Project is a solutions-oriented approach to provide photojournalists a tool to build essential trust with their audience. In collaboration with Ritchin, I designed and developed a digital platform to create and embed interactive photographs that provide critical information and supplementary media about the image and its photographer. The augmented Four Corners photograph shares information about the photographer and their code of ethics; a written or spoken backstory of what the image captures–from the voice of the photographer or their subject; and additional images, videos, and external links relevant to the primary photograph and its story. We are currently providing workshops to various schools and organizations on how and why to use the tool and exploring creative and critical uses of the project through online news publication. You can view examples of Four Corners photographs in our gallery.
Mapping the Spirit
mappingthespirit.com
Project by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
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A digital art object for Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s ongoing project to elaborate on the religious and spiritual articulations of people of African descent in North America. The project uses photography, video, audio, interviews, archival research, and interactivity to tell stories and add depth beyond the reductive narrative of a homogenous “Black church” that is often predominant in our popular media. The project began with a chapter regarding the Moorish Science Temple of America. Kameelah’s research and documentation focuses on an individual collaborator’s personal spirituality and practices in conjunction with the history and current affairs of their religion and its community. Future chapters will involve additional collaborations with Black religious practitioners and new forms of interactive media. Learn more about the project and research:
- Magnum Foundation: 2017 Photography Expanded symposium at Cooper Union (video)
- The Revealer: Mapping the Spirit (article)
- Magnum Foundation: Announcing On Religion, A Collaborative Pilot Initiative (post)
- Triple Canopy: My God Has Another Name (interactive article)
The View from Ginling
mct.barnard.edu
Class taught by Professor Gale Kenny; research by students of Religion in the Archives (full list on the site)
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A digital humanities research project created in collaboration with professor Gale Kenny at Barnard College and the students of Religion in the Archives. Throughout the course, students are taught how to conduct archival research practices on a selected collection while also learning critical theory about archives and approaches to decolonize them. Then, after forming groups around shared research topics and digitizing relevant items from the archive, I assist the students in developing projects using the tools and principles of digital humanities scholarship. The students then publish their digital exhibits (interactive essays, maps, data visualizations, timelines, etc.) and supplementary research to a joint project website. The first two semesters of the course were focused around the papers of an American missionary and founder of Ginling College, the first women’s undergraduate college in China. The website that assembles the research and exhibits over the two semesters taught with this collection is called the Views from Ginling. Learn more about the course:
- Barnard Library and Academic Information Services: Faculty Partner of the Year 2018-2019 (post)
- Barnard: Decolonizing the Archive: Missionaries, Digital History, and Religious Studies (event)
Reading Zimbabwe
readingzimbabwe.com
Project by Black Chalk & Co.; research by Tinashe Mushakavanhu; design by Nontsikelelo Mutiti
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This website houses a continuously growing catalog of over two-thousand books about Zimbabwe published over eight decades and from five continents. The editorialization of this repository aims to problematize the production and distribution of knowledge written about Zimbabwe by highlighting the unbalanced power that Western scholars have over a history and cultural identity far removed from their own. Through a critical lens of the country’s colonial past and authoritarian present, Reading Zimbabwe investigates who writes the country’s history and who has the access to learn it. The website was developed to be optimized for readers in Zimbabwe on low bandwidth mobile browsers and was designed by Nontsi using visual inspiration from the architecture of Great Zimbabwe and the Khami Ruins. Learn more about the project and research:
- Africa in Words: Tinashe Mushakavanhu on Reading Zimbabwe from Kampala (interview)
- NEW INC: Black Chalk & Co. Is Building An Archive Of Zimbabwe's Stories
- Gŵyl Haf: Tinashe Mushakavanhu on Reading Zimbabwe, An Archive of Zimbabwean Literatures (video)
- The Herald Zimbabwe: Curating Zim’s intellectual record
- Wendy’s Subway: Library-in-residence (page)
- Kickstarter: Reading Zimbabwe campaign (page)

Non-profit positions

Sanitation Foundation
Advisory board (2021-present)
Prospect Farm Community Garden
Board of directors (2017–present)
Windsor Terrace Food Coop
Board of directors (2019-2022)
K’allam’p
Co-founder

Teaching

The New School
- Parsons School of Design
  - Communication Design
    - Core 1: Interaction (2020)
    - Core Lab Interaction (2019, 2020)
    - Creative Computing (2019)
Columbia University
- Barnard College
  - Religion Department
    - Religion In The Archive (2018, 2019, 2022)
      Digital humanities assistant

Workshop facilitation

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- Decolonizing Eyes
  with Margarita Valdivieso
International Center of Photography (ICP)
- Ideas & Images (2019)
  with Fred Ritchin
- Image Strategies for Human Rights (2019, 2020)
  with Fred Ritchin
Magnum Foundation
- Photography Expanded Lab
  - Counter Histories (2018)
    hosted by the Brown Institute at Columbia University
  - On Migration Lab (2018)
    hosted by the Brown Institute at Columbia University
- Photography and Social Justice Fellowship (2019)
  with Fred Ritchin
Bard High School Early College Manhattan
- Media Literacy (2020, 2021)
  with Alexis Lambrou