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Y S D M


Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY

@ysdm.studio
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Y S D M


Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser
info@ysdm.studio / @ysdm.studio

BUBUTO
at Arts Letters & Numbers
Averill Park, NY
2017

Dinner Concept: Diana Mangaser
in collaboration with: Amara Abdal-Figueroa, Laura Genes, Yoshihiro Sergel

Carefully wrapped foods have sustained human beings for thousands of years in numerous ways; they nurture bodies as well as spirits and are infused with a cultural sense of belonging specific to a people, a time, and a place. Bubuto, Filipino tamales, originate from the province of Pampanga, and consist of milled rice flour with coconut milk and various toppings wrapped in banana leaf then steamed. The labor of preparing, assembling, and cooking the tamales, often shared within a family across generations, and now with friends, engages a community in the nourshing act of food-making as self-making.

Photography: Arts Letters & Numbers



ABOUT

Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.

Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.

By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as principles from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.  

As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.


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Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.

Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.

Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.

By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.  

As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be. 
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Y S D M
 info@ysdm.studio 
@ysdm.studio