We are artists, architects, scientists, and researchers that work together to build visionary projects towards a just and sustainable future.
Streetlight was founded informally in 2014 by Indian artist Supermrin as a network of mutually supportive women artists, designers, and architects interested in creating new discourse at the fringes and intersections of their disciplines. These relationships were formalized in 2020 when Streetlight Studio was incorporated as a growing network to support scaled research within areas where women felt marginalized, including fabrication and robotics, environmental sciences, public art, and design in the public sphere.
We create high impact research led art and design experiences.
We are interested in research that drives change in our human relationships with nature, environment, and shared public space. We use feminist, decolonizing, and nonwestern tactics and methodologies to develop communication tools, public artworks, exhibitions, and architectures that promote self-reflection and non-violence.
Our projects are often built from the ground up. We collaborate, self-organize and work for people, projects and ideas we believe in. We work hands-on, local, and at the grassroots.
We are funded through academic, arts, research, and technology grants. We also partner with organizations that share our values to offer consultancy, design, and educational services from our studios located in Brooklyn, NY and Cincinnati, OH.
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We foster interdisciplinary arts teaching and learning communities.
We believe in the power of open source learning. As we develop new research, we often create workshops and modules that share our learnings with others. We are committed to collaboration, to the power of process, and to people first.
Our current offerings include workshops on biomaterial design and development, that we have conducted for organizations like Guerilla Science, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.
We employ the transformative power of art to affect systemic change.
For us, art is a container for program development, capacity building, systems thinking (and rethinking), teaching and learning, research, writing, poetics, visualizing, imagining, subverting, critiquing, advocacy, and activism.
We also continually work to uncover and alter our own internal belief systems and biases. Our collaborations are based on values of friendship, peership, healing and shared resistance. Our team is a decentralized network spread across the world. We are interested in affecting change in diverse cities like New Delhi, São Paulo, Moscow, Oakland, and New York, where we live, and where we are from.
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