From Environmental Bubble to Environmental Trouble

Banham Research Project

Exhibited at the Venice Biennale, 2025

Temple of Reassurance

Reach out to Voyager 1 with the Quantum Phase Antenna.

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O(U)R Experience

Join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of (OUR) Experience, featuring the work of the Office of (Un)certainty Research, a speculative futures practice responding to the climate crisis through a transdisciplinary imagination that seeks to connect the sciences and humanities to the disciplines of the built environment.
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Kishkindha NY - A Dance-Happening
June 15th, Palazzo Michiel, VENICE

O(U)R has commissioned a dance group in Venice called STORMO to perform a Dance-Happening around the theme of Kishkindha NY.
It will be choreographed by the noted dancer, Carla Marazzato. The event will take place at 5 PM at the Palazzo Michiel in Venice.
It is free and open to the public, but audience size is limited.
If interested, contact O(U)R: officeofuncertaintyresearch@gmail.com

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D.I.A.N.A.

The story of Diane de Cielo's fateful decision

Many Houses, Many Worlds

Exhibited at the Venice Biennale, 2021

Cenotaph for Niels Bohr

Design Project from OUR

1by1 Land Acknowledgement Project

Design Challenge from OUR

Tirtha: Recomposting Temple Complex

exhibited in Venice, Palazzo Bembo, 2021

Kishkindha: New York

design project by OUR

OUR Statements

Meditations on Architecture

The Data-Human

New Book - Mark Jarzombek

O(U)R: Office of (Un)certainty Research  is a design research practice dedicated to rethinking architecture in terms of the emergent scientific, social and political parameters of the 21st century. O(U)R projects explore the entanglement between the planet and the cosmos.

Founders

Mark Jarzombek
Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture

Vikramāditya Prakāsh
Professor: University of Washington
College of Built Environments

What We Do

OUR and the ARCHITECTURE (UN)CERTAINTY LAB are dedicated to challenging architecture's epistemological and design capacities and bring the conversation back into a world of immersive ambiguities. The work that the lab promotes operates outside of subject-object and theory-practice dualities.

Why We Do It

Habitation in today’s world is shot through with unavoidable distances and indifferences; yet it does not thereby cease to be a mode of belonging. The question is: How do we define/measure our response/responsibility?