Hood Design Studio

Hood Design Studio is a social art and design practice based in Oakland, California, founded in 1992. The studio’s practice is tripartite: art + fabrication, design + landscape, and research + urbanism. This breadth allows Hood Design Studio to understand each place in its scale and context. They respond not with a standard design, but with an approach adaptive to the particulars and specifics of a space. The company aims to strengthen endemic patterns and practices—those ecological and cultural, contemporary and historic, and those that remain unseen or unrecognized. Urban spaces and their objects act as public sculpture, creating new apertures through which to see the emergent beauty, strangeness, and idiosyncrasies around us. Based in the United States, Hood Design Studio presents an innovative and adaptable approach to art and design, catering to the unique characteristics of each environment they work within.