Thomas Martin Kearns
Assistant ProfessorPartner, sand_box
Office: Room 112
3410 S. State Street
Office Hours: Thur 12 - 6 p.m.
Phone: 312.567.3937
Fax:
Email:
kearns@iit.edu
Web:
www.sndbx.com
Expertise
- Architectural Design and Theory
Education
- B.Arch, Iowa State University
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
My research focuses on making meaningful connections between physical and digital environments. This work manifests through interactive technologies and digital fabrication systems with an emphasis on design build approaches combined with investigation into the implications of the Open Source paradigm on the practice of design.
Current Projects
- Contested Space, Mutually responsive installation between a custom 3d video game and a physically augmented residence.
- Montauk III, 5000 sf beach house. Montauk, NY
- Fresh Pond, 2500 sf residence. Fresh Pond NY
- Long Sands, 2500 sf summer residence. Long Sands, ME
- Hellenic Museum Oral History Project, Interactive Environment + software for museum exhibition
- Earth Friendly Products/Whole Foods, Prototype development of a product packing/shipping/display system for an eco-based product line
- Layover, production design for digital film
- Multiple residential renovations + additions
Awards/Honors
- Wallpaper Magazine breakthrough designers of the year 2007
- Finalist, ID Magazine Annual Design Review 2006