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Y S D M


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

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Y S D M


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


SOIL SESSIONS: Soil Compositions
Workshop in support of the exhibition:
Delcy Morelos | El abrazo curated by Alexis Lowry with Zuna Mara
Dia Chelsea
New York, USA
2024

Workshop Lead: Diana Mangaser

In conjunction with Delcy Morelos: El abrazo, Dia presented Soil Sessions, an iterative series of interdisciplinary activations, poetic responses to, discursive reflections on, and embodied engagements with earth as subject and material in Morelos’s work.

Drawing on her own relationship to soil as an architect and artist, Diana Mangaser identifies soil as a creative and generative material that shapes our surroundings. For Soil Compositions, Mangaser lead a material-focused workshop in which participants created their own unique soil compositions by selecting from an array of aggregates.

As a primer for developing a deeper understanding of soil, the workshop imagined each material contributing its specific character to a personal soil structure reflecting the maker’s identity in some way. Mangaser poses questions for us to consider: What is soil? What is our relationship to soil and in what ways does it reflect on how we build our contemporary life?

Thanks to:  Megan Mattingly, Stephen Kwok, Angel Barba (Dia Art Foundation); Yoshihiro Sergel & Elliot Kleinman; Photography: Don Stahl

TEA HOUSE: MANITOGA
Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center
Garrison, NY
2021-22

Project Lead: Yoshihiro Sergel
Project Support: Diana Mangaser

Artist In Residency Installation
12’-4.5” x 12’-4.5” x 8’-0” interlocking cedar structure set on stone footings with (8) sliding string doors, (4) felt tatami, lime concrete hearth, and paper roof tiles.

Thanks to: Allison Cross—Director at Manitoga & Staff: Vivian Linares, Nina Scibelli, Kelly Ellenwood, Emily Phillips & Mia Wendel-DiLallo, Sarah Connors, and all the incredible tour guides; Installation Assistance: Zach Blaue, Alex Cimbal, Sanjay Thakur, John Zelehoski; Component Fabrication: Jason Bauer (Third Room), Ricardo Fuentes (Fabhaus); Photography: Don Stahl

POSENENSKE @ the BAUHAUS
Models & Workshop for the exhibition:
Fictional: Charlotte Posenenske/Alexis Lowry
Haus Gropius, Bauhaus Foundation
Dessau, Germany
2021-22

Curator-In-Residence: Alexis Lowry
Workshop Facilitation & Model Design: Diana Mangaser

By invitation from Alexis Lowry to collaborate on an exhibition of Posenenske’s work at the Bauhaus, Diana Mangaser designed models & a workshop inviting public to design sculptures using paper board series DW models at 1:20 scale. These crowd sourced designs then inform and shape the layout and reconfiguration of the full scale elements three times over the course of the exhibition.

Thanks to:  Alexis Lowry (Dia Art Foundation); Dr. Florian Strob, Valentina Camacho (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation); Medhi Choukari, Daniel Pfau (Galerie Mehdi Chouakri - Posenenske Archive)

LIVE/WORK
Newburgh NY
2014-2020

Project Team: Diana Mangaser & Yoshihiro Sergel
Engineer of Record: Michael Carr P.E.

1910s Historic Veterninary Clinic/Carriage House & Apartment
1463sf live/work studio with 777sf outdoor walled garden
+ 731sf 1bed/ba with 732sf outdoor terrace

Before the building was acquired from Newburgh Community Land Bank, this historic property was once a horse surgery and at one point the city dog pound, after which it stood vacant for decades. In collaboration with our client, a local artist, the building’s terraced shell was transformed into two levels of artist live/work spaces leveraging historic tax credits and affordable housing grants.

Historic elements, like the brick facade, window openings, and original metal skylights manufactured in 1800s by Philip Kempler Co. Newburgh, have been restored and continue to let natural light into the newly renovated interiors. Both the ground floor space and second floor apartment open to generous outdoor terraces enclosed by masonry walls creating private oases in the midst of the urban environment.

POSENENSKE SESSIONS II
Models & Workshop for Charlotte Posenenske
Dia Art Foundation
Beacon, NY
2021

Workshop Lead: Diana Mangaser

In conjunction with the exhibition Charlotte Posenenske, Dia Art Foundation presented Posenenske Sessions II—a winter workshop session in-person at Dia:Beacon and online via zoom. In keeping with the participatory and democratic process that Posenenske envisioned for her work, workshop participants were invited to collaborate in designing the installation.

Workshop Participants: Brigit Larson, Carrie Scheinder, Charlotte Foley, Christina Delius, Eva Jespersen, Daniel Oates-Kuhn, Laura Genes, Mira Dayal, Mollie McKinley, Nicole Kaak, Quinn Schoen, Stephen Kwok, Tongji Philip Qian, Yoshihiro Sergel. Thanks to:  Alexis Lowry, Matilde Guidelli Guidi, Ian Wallace, Meagan Mattingly, Alex Vargo, Valerie Chang (Dia Art Foundation); Ricardo Fuentes & Michelle Batho (Fabhaus). Photography: Don Stahl

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 
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