Featurette: Blockchain Ecologies: Ownership Beyond Extraction

Brittany Utting is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice University and co-founder of the research and design collaborative HOME-OFFICE. Her work examines the spatial, political, and ecological forms of collective life. Currently, she is working on a book project entitled Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (Routledge, 2023). She previously taught at the University of Michigan as the 2017–2018 Willard A. Oberdick Fellow. Brittany received her Master of Architecture from Yale University and a B.S. in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Daniel Jacobs is Adjunct Faculty in Architecture at the University of Houston and co-founder of HOME-OFFICE. His research and writing centers around the labor production and material ecologies of the built environment. He has previously served as the secretary of the National Organizing Committee of the Architecture Lobby, taught as a Lecturer at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, and practiced as an Associate at SHoP Architects in New York. Daniel received his Master of Architecture from the Yale University School of Architecture and a B.S. in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.