About
Overview
Spherical is a transdisciplinary research and design studio working to regenerate the health and integrity of Earth’s living systems.
Our work spans multiple spheres of inquiry, engaging projects at scales from the local to the planetary through coding experiments, ecological data visualizations, immersive productions, site-specific performances, and more.
Our anchor project is the Living Infrastructure Field Kit, a philanthropically funded mapping and co-design platform reimagining how infrastructure is conceived in Los Angeles County, starting with communities.
We’re a distributed team with primary operations based in xučyun (the East Bay), traditional territories of Lisjan (Ohlone) peoples.
Spheres of Inquiry
◐ Place-Tending
Sensing the aliveness of places to cultivate bioregional health
◓ Ontological Repair
Evoking paradigms that restore relationships with the living world
◒ Cognitive Ecology
Exploring collaborative intelligence across diverse ways of knowing
◑ Transcalar Imaginary
Seeing across the nested scales of space, time, and life
Team
Dawn Danby
Co-Founder & CEO
Anna Bush
Staff Engineer
Faith Flanigan
Business Operations Director
Tana Helean
Head of Strategy & Design
Brendan Loudermilk
Engineering Director
Gabrielle Merite
Fractional Strategic Design Director
Ryan Searcy
Data Scientist
David McConville
Co-Founder & Research Lead
Micah Corning-Myers
Staff Engineer
Anna Goss
Product Designer
CC Huang
Strategic Development Director
Erik Loyer
Creative Technologist
Alisa Petrosova
Strategic Communications Director
Wilm Thoben
Staff Engineer
Entangle- ments
Accelerate Resilience L.A.
RIVER Collective
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Regenesis Institute
Sherwood Design Engineers
Institute for the Future
Kauffman Foundation
Mozilla
MUTEK Forum / L'École NAD
Concordia University
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Epic Decade
Greenbiz
Obscura Digital
One Project
Day One Project