past projects
Europe Grand Central
A two year EU funded project that connects border stories and audience inclusion methods across independent European culture centers. The purpose is to foster curiosity, empower misrepresented groups through storytelling, and develop and spread methods of audience participation across Europe and beyond. more
Project Borders Vision – 2013
Interactive exhibition that explored multi-dimensional borders of the audience, it combined lessons from camera lending projects and previous exhibitions into a visionary display of Bordr methods and concepts that paved the way for the creation of Bordr. more
Borders in Moscow – 2013
This workshop considered the idea of borders within the city. We explored this idea through a variety of methods including game design, net ethnography, participatory urban research (including the use of the Bordr app), and contemporary dance. more
Vandring – Vittring – 2013
Vandring – Vittring was an in depth artistic exploration of the borders between the Swedish twin cities of Vänersborg and Trollhättan. It was the first time border stories on the Bordr app were submitted through live storytelling, and mapped into a graph of borders between the cities. more
Stateless in Jordan – 2012
The project was part of a larger research effort by the Open Society Foundations exploring the situations of stateless populations in the Middle East. Participants borrowed cameras for several weeks and told their stories in photographs, drawings, and voices. more
Bordr iPhone app – 2011
We define a border as the space between two entities. The Bordr iPhone app nails this definition with its ability to “check in” to spaces in-between. It is the technological basis for most Bordr projects, and continuously iterated into new forms. more
Project Borders Queens – 2011
Academic, journalistic, and experimental research project at Columbia University, The New School, and Queens Museum, New York, to explore self told border stories between multiple homes. It was based on a method of lent cameras resulting in a border based media player, the Bordr app, and core Bordr concepts. more