David McConvilleUS
David McConville is co-founder of Spherical (spherical.studio), an integrative research and strategic design studio working to regenerate the health and integrity of Earth's living systems. Spherical is currently developing mapping, visualization, and co-design tools for exploring and creating living infrastructure across nested scales. McConville is also a founding member of the RIVER collective, where he co-facilitates offerings designed to examine the Western cosmovision through other ways of being, knowing, and doing. Previously, he co-founded The Elumenati, a design and engineering firm that creates custom immersive displays and installations for clients from art festivals to space agencies. He also directed integrated research at the Society for Arts and Technology and served as the board chairman of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. He earned a transdisciplinary PhD in Art and Media from the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth. McConville descends from Scottish ancestry and lives with his family in the territory of Huchiun, a.k.a. the Lower Bottoms of West Oakland California, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people.
