Leah Wulfman
They // Them // Theirs
Mixed Reality Architect, (Multidisciplinary Designer, Educator, Mixed Reality Game Developer)
Salt Lake City, Utah
“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.
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