Lydia Chodosh is a Brooklyn-based designer, educator + writer who likes playing with language. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design [2024].
Selected Design Work
On the Impulse to Notate
To read is to
Artifactual Accumulations
Interior Atlas
Artifacts of Countability
Spore Site
RISD GD MFA Biennial
Clock Studies
Translations of Gratitude
Atlas
Art Direction
Harper’s Magazine
Volume 1
A Guide to the Politiverse
Are.na
© 2024
Rhode Island School of Design
spore-site.com grew out of close examination with categorical systems common to library catalogs. Inspired by literature on mycelial networks, the goal was to build a site of reference points that visitors could navigate intuitively, without the standard limitations of prescribed labels. I began by collecting recordings from individuals in my community, to whom I posed the following prompt: “Share a quote, a moment, or an experience that made you feel connected.” Each recording was aggregated and keyworded, and now lives inside spore-site.com, where individuals can interact with it and retrieve a collection of associated references.
Design and data collection by Lydia Chodosh
Site development by Gabriel Drozdov