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Leah Wulfman

They // Them // Theirs

Mixed Reality Architect, (Multidisciplinary Designer, Educator, Mixed Reality Game Developer)

Salt Lake City, Utah

A white, non-binary person with short blonde hair partially smiling at the camera. They are wearing an orange-and-grey button-down shirt with the windows of a green house and the sun setting behind them.

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Trained as an architect, I assemble hybrid virtual and physical spaces in order to prototype new relationships to technology and nature, as well as challenge normative ideologies that are reinforced by technology and architecture.”

Leah Wulfman is a Carrier Bag architect, educator, game designer, digital puppeteer, and occasional writer. Trained as an architect, Wulfman has been assembling hybrid virtual and physical spaces in order to prototype new relationships to technology and nature, as well as challenge normative ideologies so often reinforced by technology and architecture. In addition to mixed reality installations that play with and emphasize the physical, material basis of everything digital, they are presently working on a research series focusing on gamified environments, interactions, and materials. Such mixed reality ecologies and interactions find their foundations in disability, trans and queer embodied practice and politics, and operate as lenses to reconfigure and recontextualize space and time orientations in architectural discourse beyond the normative.

Wulfman holds a B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as an MA in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc. They have taught at numerous institutions in the United States, including ArtCenter's Media Design Practices graduate program, IDEAS Program at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, SCI-Arc, The School of Architecture at Taliesin, and most recently University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where they developed youth programming and mixed reality coursework. Wulfman is now at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning, where they are currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Multi-Disciplinary Design (MDD) as well as a recipient of the 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers.

Donor -This award was generously supported by Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.30.2025

An industrial loft space filled with inflatable objects. A large, flat blue inflated object takes up most of the floor space and white tables are installed within it, as though visitors are invited to sit on the inflatable “floor” near the tabletops. Another rectangular inflatable leans under the windows. A number of posters and images are installed on top of it.

Discordant Whole by Leah Wulfman and Adam Miller, 2022. Liberty Research Annex, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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A half wall curves around an industrial loft space. The short, floating wall has pictures of futuristic and fantastic-looking structures tiled across its facade. Five paintings of futuristic buildings are hung at different heights along the wall.

My Mid Journey Trash Pile by Leah Wulfman. /imagine: A Journey into The New Virtuality exhibition, 2023. MAK Museum, Vienna.

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A vertically-oriented screen portrays an eerie image of a blue tinted forest whose ground is covered with purple wildflowers. Just behind the screen is a mound of dirt with tree branches sticking out.

Free Dirt by Leah Wulfman. Better When Messy exhibition, 2022. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

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