If profound intractable problems exist in society, it follows that the professions needed to fix them have not yet been invented.

Ian Wojtowicz (he/him) is a writer who builds stuff. His work applies techniques of connection, dissensus, modifiability, playfulness, editing, argument, dialogue, and repair.

He has shown work in Hong Kong, Europe and throughout North America, and has published work in Wired Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and on PBS and Discovery channels. Professionally, Wojtowicz has consulted for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the US National Coast Guard Museum, the Redwoods National and State Parks, and indigenous cultural projects at Nk'Mip and Wanuskewin.

Wojtowicz holds a degree in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT’s School of Architecture and is the editor of a collected volume from MIT Press entitled Interrogative Design, on artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's influential design philosophy.

He currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada, on the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh people.



Industrial Design

I build objects and instruments, often ones whose purpose is to start an argument: a device for debating with a museum exhibit, a table that stages a cultural conversation, a fictional technology for a dying reef. I take commissions from galleries, museums and collaborators, and I am glad to be brought in early, while the idea is still an idea.

Mirror Shulhanot

Mirror Shulhanot

2020

A system for cultural dialog

Other Interpretations

Other Interpretations

2020

AR app that does one thing

Museum Dissensus Instrument

Museum Dissensus Instrument

2019

A system for having conversations and debates with museum exhbits

Reef Hopper

Reef Hopper

2017

Fictional technology to respond to dying reefs

The Oracle of Elsewhere

The Oracle of Elsewhere

2012

Live map of global news trends

Organic Machine Group

Organic Machine Group

2011 $250

Research project on human/machine integration

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