About
Jose Sanchez is an Architect and Game Developer, and Theorist of technology based in Detroit, Michigan. He is the director of the Plethora Project, a research studio investing in the future of the propagation of architectural design knowledge. He is the creator of
the video games Block’hood and Common’hood, digital social platforms that
aid the authoring of architectural and ecological thinking to non-expert
audiences. He is the author of the book “Architecture for the Commons:
Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms” published by Routledge in
2020 and the co-creator of Bloom, a crowdsourced interactive installation
which was the winner of the Wonder Series hosted by the City of London for
the 2012 Olympics. He is currently at the University of Michigan, where he
is an Associate Professor at the Taubman College School of Architecture.
His research “Architecture for the Commons” designs and interrogates social
media platforms as tools with the potential to author architectural content
in the public domain.