Mode is a design office that leverages computational expertise through design research, teaching, and consulting.
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Mode is a design office that leverages computational expertise through design research, teaching, and consulting.
Mode utilizes diverse methodologies including code, associative and relational strategies, as well as digital fabrication in the production of material organizations and the formation of space.
While we are interested in intense iterative design processes, we believe the evolution and contextualization of these procedures in a broader social and cultural domain is both our primary objective and the means for embedding interest and significance into design.

Mode is Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos.

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2010.03 | Mode lectures + teaches Catalyst Seminar at University of Minnesota
2010.03 | Mode lectures + teaches Catalyst Seminar at University of Minnesota

Studio Mode is pleased to announce it will be giving a lecture and teaching an intensive Catalyst seminar at University of Minnesota College of Design. Many [...]

ParaGrove
ParaGrove

ParaGrove text coming soon…
ParaGrove was a part of the system::system show in Brooklyn 2009.10.23.

Fabrication | Articulated Robot Arm
Fabrication | Articulated Robot Arm

Text coming soon…
Mode development of parametric model.

paraGrove | System:System opening
paraGrove | System:System opening

Please join us for the opening reception of our installation paraGrove within the system:system exhibition brought to you by Super Square. The opening is tonight, [...]

2009.04 | Mode to conduct Grasshopper Workshop at NYCCT

Studio Mode will give a Grasshopper workshop entitled ‘Structure+Skin’ focusing on parametrics and digital fabrication at the New York City College of Technology April 9th-11th, [...]

2009.03 | Performative Environments at the Center for Architecture

Mode design and fabrication seminar, Performative Environments, from Stevens Institute | Product Architecture Lab will present this semester’s work at the Center for Architecture, [...]

2009.01 | Shape to Fabrication speakers updated

The full presentation line-up has been posted for the Shape To Fabrication 3 Event 2009 in London, UK. Studio Mode is excited to join speakers [...]

2009.01 | Mode + PAL : Performative Environments

Studio Mode will be teaching a graduate design studio entitled Performative Environments this spring at Stevens Institute Product Architecture Lab.

2009.01 | Mode + Pratt : Digital Futures Group

Studio Mode has joined the Digital Futures Group as digital consultants for thesis year design studios this spring at Pratt Institute School of Architecture.

2008.10 | Mode attends ACADIA08 : Silicon + Skin

Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos attend the ACADIA08 “Silicon + Skin” Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ronnie participates in the ACADI@ Event.

2007.08 | Mode + Party Dress

Gil Akos consults the sister team of Karla + Dana Karwas for the geometrical design of Party Dress, the dynamic event garment that will blur [...]

2007.04 | Mode attends Manufacturing Material Effects

Ronnie Parsons attends the Manufacturing Material Effects Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Polyp Panels
Polyp Panels

polypPanels is a wall panelization system that explores the effects of dissimilar perforation and diffused coloration through aperture.
While it presents a colorfully intricate frontal pattern, [...]

nTable
nTable

The N_Table was designed in collaboration with Andrew Kudless (MATSYS) for a small video installation by Norah Zuniga Shaw.
The table consists of a cellular-structured [...]

2008.09 | Mode attends Smart Geometry

Studio Mode attends Smart Geometry NYC meeting.

2007.10 | EOES Opening

EOES opens at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.