Beta-field was formed in 2008 as a design/research studio with a multimodal approach to practice. Our work is grounded in the three ideas above, and includes artifacts, spaces, environments, installations, exhibitions, texts, design workshops and research. We focus not only on the products of design practice, but the implications of design inquiry in our built environment, technology and culture.
Beta occupies a place between inception and completion, suggesting the possibility of evolution and the expectation of change. Fields are neither artifacts nor environments, they are collections bound by affinities, intensities, qualities and logics. The combination of terms beta and field has many readings - each word, a multiplicity of concepts. For this combination presents a way of approaching design - beta-fields exist parallel to, and provide counterpoints for, traditional forms of practice.
With backgrounds in architecture, industrial design, landscape architecture, exhibition design, and construction and experience as researchers, designers, and educators, we developed a view of design practice that operates through various modes of inquiry, development, and production, shaped by three Hypothesis: Open Frameworks, Integrated Assemblies, Isotropic Agency.