Balcony provides a very peculiar type of sociality in buildings. Oscillates between the personal and the public, it is neither oversharing nor withdrawing into complete seclusion. Regionally, balconies manifest in diverse adaptations. The Baltic boast soviet balconies with personalized features such as extended walls and fabrics, catering both privacy and thermal comfort. The Mediterranean elaborate historic balconies into vibrant social hubs, serving as communal bars and doubling as stages for performances. The Korean treats their balconies as front doors for logistics and moving furniture. Inspired by these social and spatial nuances inherent in balconies, HONMI have studied eight different […]

Panel Discussion December 5, 2023 Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases showcases the example of evolution of ideas in science through the example of infectious disease transmission from ancient Greece to current times, and through the use of comics and illustration. The overall broader goal is showcase the scientific method in action and the non-incremental shift in paradigms in science through a range of historical examples, and to put in perspective shifts in paradigms in more recent times, for example in the public health application of infectious diseases and pandemic science. The exhibit is envisioned as a unified story bringing different […]

This exhibition presents a personal inquiry into the meditative space between collapsed formal choices and experiencing various materiality. Through multiple mediums, all the items in the display are projections in the material world of a continuous process of developing self and existence of being in time. This exhibition explores the making of marks and objects as a language system through two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. The exhibition consists of drawings, small-scale clay, wood sculptures, casted aluminum book stands, and found objects and shapes produced in the past three years. Despite various mediums, they are all results of the same process of […]

Curator Tour + Reception: May 16th, 12pm-1pm Witnessing and attempting to comprehend China’s controversial response to COVID-19 over the past three years from a geographically distant yet culturally and emotionally intimate standpoint, I have grappled with multiple perspectives, sometimes as an insider, sometimes as an outsider, and most of the time as an impostor to both. As I continually query the incoherence of my positionality, I find myself in an obscure middle ground where my voice is filtered as inauthentic and unheeded. I ask myself: What should I do? What can I do? This project is an effort to give […]

The target at 180 Somerville Avenue is nothing special. As a place to observe adjacent spaces and events however, its boring and typical department store features become a meaningful backdrop to question patterns of daily life, street infrastructure, urban development and the multiple roles a parking lot plays within and in between these things. The photographs in this work are at once a survey, critique and minor celebration of a target parking lot and everyday urban relationships that generate questions rather than answers. Beginning at the parking lot, they record the range of fleeting events and more permanent ones; from […]

  Building on 15 years of our experience in designing and creating the most cutting edge interaction – fusion between the brain and computer, brain-computer interface, in our project NeuraFutures we are touching upon implanting memories, reading your dreams while you sleep and communicating a thought between two different people throughout the continents. We analyzed 450+ books, movies, TV shows to give our audience a better picture of what brain computer interfaces are and are not. From science to science fiction, from 1641’s brain in a jar to 2021’s Rick and Morty’s memory transfer helmet. We explore together with our […]

Boston’s Little Syria (also known as Syriatown), thrived between the 1880s and 1950s in today’s Chinatown and South End, yet few Bostonians are familiar with it. Drawing from photographs, property maps, and memoirs of Syrian- and Lebanese-Americans, this exhibition narrates the history of a neighborhood which is nearly invisible today. The buildings of Little Syria–from Gridley J.F. Bryant’s Greek Revival Quincy Grammar School to the retro 1970s Syrian Sahara Restaurant–make up not just the history of one neighborhood, but are also important sites in Boston’s architectural past, present, and future. This exhibition follows the path of immigrants who fled blight […]