PROPS SUPPLY is a creative studio specializing in visual identities, architecture, and worldbuilding for collectives and like-minded individuals

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Enter the Flow
PROPS SUPPLY has been featured in Documenta, Moderna Museet, Pioneer Works, Dutch Design Week, Beijing Design Week, New York Review of Architecture, ESP Cultural Magazine, Atlas of Anomolas AI,  Art in America, Are.na Annual, The Creative Independent, Metropolis Magazine, and others. The studio is led by Lucy Siyao Liu and Matthew Bohne.

Liu and Bohne are Registered Architects in the State of New York.



Writing

A Place for Relating to Water
Citing the Futurex
Outwit WeWork
Thoughts in “To Imagine,” Into the Universe of Technical Images (Electronic Mediations) by Vilem Flusser
Before Code, Beyond Speech
On Our Minds

planetary ontology <> relational systems
cooperative and organization models
new economies, new ledgers
collecting, ordering and alignments
reciprocal human/non-human relationships
folk < > science
water
ethnobotany and mysticism
craft and ornament
human will
cosmotechnics



A Place for Relating to Water
By Lucy Siyao Liu
Are.na Annual 2021 “tend” [link]



Excerpt

The cosmology of ‘-ariums’ we have built—terrariums, vivariums, planetariums, aquariums, paludariums, ripariums…spell out a technique to comprehend ecosystems by reducing the dimensionality of ecology into controllable scales. We view “-ariums” to be objective section cuts of ecological phenomena; however, our attempts at control also write our presence inextricably into the equation of ideal life conditions that we’re trying to understand. The technology that recreates the conditions for plants and animals, in its simultaneous offering of life, also forks the milieu of non-human environments from their dependence on the specificities of place. Aquariums are not the blackwater streams of the Amazon Basin, and cannot replace the real concerns of that scale. In “On Exactitude of Science,” Jorge Luis Borges warns that in our quest to map the empire in its infinite detail, the map will eventually cover the entire empire itself. Likewise, carefully curated ‘-ariums’ can be misconstrued for the reality of ecosystems themselves; just like how the constructed nature of environmental knowledge can be often misconstrued as the environment itself.


Read the full essay on Are.na.

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We work with great concern for craft, magic and curiosity. We are guided by rigorous, methodical and obsessive techniques. Our propositions reveal in the complexities of an existence caught between matter and data. It is within these bounds that we touch this mystical world in which we reside in and desire to share. We unveil the strangeness in convention, the precision in ambiguity and the alien within the human.