Research & Development Studio Model


A creative research studio at the intersection of indigenous histories and intuitive futures. Through our cooperative practice and intercommunal services we aim to inspire the public into innovative-ancient ways of being. We be in community, through arts, and towards a vision informed by intuition, context, and ancestors.

As a cooperative, community-based studio we staff up to deliver studio services and complete studio projects through the guidance of ITS-IN-SCOPE founding archive caretaker, Marvin James.




Studio Ethos

ANCESTRAL VENERATION
: A reverence and adherence to contextualized wisdoms of our ancestors.
ABOLITIONIST PROPAGANDA
: In advocacy for another new world. An embrace informed by a re-membering of pre- and post-colonial possibilities. An acceptance that our current model is not sustainable and imagining anew is inevitable.
ARTISTIC CURIOSITY
: A curiosity-rewarding artistic practice that begins with re-membering by re-searching and continues through interdisciplinary creative making.
ACTIONABLE RESEARCH
: Beyond the conceptual lies the actionable. We research with Care of The Land towards open-sourced models that may inform the development of ecosystems of abundance (shared enoughness).






Studio Projects


Memoryhaus 555 →
ITS-IN-SCOPE Thesis Collections →
Archive Caretaker Fellowship Program →
Worldbuilding 3000 Sympoisum →
Quiet Magazine: Cultural Currency →
People’s Propaganda Printmaking Studio →
Studio Portraits @ BMF →
Crenwshaw Remembers Arts & Wellness Festival →
ITS-IN-SCOPE Thesis Exhibitions →
Seed-to-Shelf Spring Market Event Photography →
Rep Club Retail Residency: Free People Time Thesis →
Library for Researching & Remembering →
Jardin de Altagracia Design Development →
SUM’MOR School →
Studio Portaits @ Nuit Noire →

Memoryhaus 406 →
Guiiided Visual Language →
Presence Prompting →
People’s Propaganda Guest Lecture →
Dahomey Research Artifact & Film Screening →
The Sun Seeker Film Screening →