Jesse Seegers is a spatial practitioner and mediator working between critical architecture, design, writing, teaching, and research practices.
Their creative practice currently includes, but is not limited to:
- Founding and directing Spatial Cultures Thinking Partner, a consultancy for artists, architects and designers to actualize their creative practice;
- Teaching at New York University in the Tandon School of Engineering's Integrated Design and Media (IDM) Program;
- Member of Local 7902, ACT-UAW of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America;
They have ceased the following activities:
- Teaching Design & The Future of Publishing in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design, and Multimedia Publishing, Production & Writing Lab in the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program, both at The New School;
- Designing and consulting on inflatable structures (temporary pneumatic tensile membrane environments) commissioned for performances, events, and extraordinary spatial activations;
Previously, they worked at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and were the 2015 Power Corporation of Canada Curatorial Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. They graduated with a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University (2013) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study (2009).
They have written about architecture, art, design, and technology for publications in print and online including: PIN-UP (NY), KALEIDOSCOPE (Milan), REAL Review (London), The Architect’s Newspaper (NY), TANK (London), Frog (Dijon), and DAMn° (Brussels), among other publications.
You can find more recent updates on these media platforms:
︎ Are.na
︎ Instagram
For inquiries, contact at:
︎ Email
Selected Press:
○ The Last Magazine
○ The Architects Newspaper
○ Metropolis
○ Sight Unseen
○ Ocula
○ The Architects Newspaper
○ PIN–UP
○ The Fader (M.Y.R.I.A.D.)
○ The New York Times ( M.Y.R.I.A.D.)
○ Outsider
○ Buffy Soft–Space
○ The Last Magazine
○ The Architects Newspaper
○ Metropolis
○ Sight Unseen
○ Ocula
○ The Architects Newspaper
○ PIN–UP
○ The Fader (M.Y.R.I.A.D.)
○ The New York Times ( M.Y.R.I.A.D.)
○ Outsider
○ Buffy Soft–Space
Lectures:
○ Inflatable Projects, NC State, November 2021
○ Sci-Arc Theory Seminar, August 2020
○ Princeton Architecture School workshop, September 2019
○ Mutualisms @ NEW INC, February 2019
○ 2nd Floor Salon, November 2018
○ Inflatocookbook 2.0, Brooklyn Public Library, May 2018
○ Turncoats NYC, June 2017
○ Pioneer Works, June 2015
○ Callicoon Art Walk, August 2015
○ Inflatable Projects, NC State, November 2021
○ Sci-Arc Theory Seminar, August 2020
○ Princeton Architecture School workshop, September 2019
○ Mutualisms @ NEW INC, February 2019
○ 2nd Floor Salon, November 2018
○ Inflatocookbook 2.0, Brooklyn Public Library, May 2018
○ Turncoats NYC, June 2017
○ Pioneer Works, June 2015
○ Callicoon Art Walk, August 2015