What we do · DES
Design & Engineering
Design and build are most of what we do. Sometimes that's software and data infrastructure; sometimes it's a physical object or system; sometimes it's a whole building or a landscape. We'll take on a house or a piece of land when designing and building it pushes the frontier of what's possible — or when the build doubles as a live experiment or study we couldn't run any other way.
How it works
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Physical world
Product, hardware, buildings, and landscapes — physical things that have to exist and work in the real world, not just on paper.
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Technology world
Software, data, and platform engineering for things that have to exist and work online.
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Why we'll build a house
We'll design and build something as large as a house or a landscape when it pushes the frontier of the technology, or when the build itself runs as an experiment or study in parallel — research we couldn't do any other way.
What this looks like
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A physical product that needs to be designed and made to actually function.
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A piece of software or data infrastructure built properly the first time.
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A house or a landscape, when building it advances the technology — or runs as a live experiment alongside the work.