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

contact us at hello@props.supply 


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


Before Code, Beyond Speech
By Lucy Siyao Liu
The Creative Independent x Are.na's Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources
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Excerpt

Codified systems of communication—such as writing, reading, and speaking—rely on pre-existing infrastructures of meaning to make sense. Concepts, emotions, and values are siphoned through the filter of language to become programmable and efficient. In this way, today’s communication systems regulate how we think and perpetuate spaces where nothing can be said without immediate interpretation.

I wonder: how we can escape the tyranny of monolinguistic thinking? How do we think in images? How do we think in lines? How can we expand how we communicate?

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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.