Iain Kerr

Iain Kerr is a designer working at the intersection of creativity, ecology, and emergent systems. Iain is the Co-Director of the MIX Lab at Montclair State University (MIX: Making and Innovating for X). Additionally, Iain is a co-founder of the boundary-blurring design consultancy SPURSE. Who for the past 20 years has been developing ground-breaking ways to probe, catalyze, disrupt, and re-imagine systems both large and small. They have collaborated with communities, organizations, and individuals from the high arctic to inner cities neighborhoods in Bolivia. Their projects reveal an astonishing range of creative solutions to effecting real change: from restaurants, wetlands, wayfinding apps, urban renewal programs, microbiology laboratories, cookbooks, buildings, and everyday tools (which have been done in collaboration with a diverse range of institutions: The Whitney, Guggenheim, MOCA Tucson, Sahjar Biennial, and others).