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 & CCO

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