hello!

I am an assemblage of:
practices / movements / attunements
learnings / observations / equanimities
architectures / pedagogies / technologies
families / friends / societies / cultures




I aim to be present.

I will describe myself as a practitioner, educator, and artist,

aiming to be in direct service to two of the primary practices that shape our lives:

the spatial and the relational.

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Currently (as of September 2026), I am directing my attention towards:

• Practicing and pursuing clinical social work, orienting towards psychodynamic, somatic, and psychedelic psychotherapy

• Relational mindbody practices such as contact improvisation, meditation (vipassana & metta), butoh, and tai chi

• Attentional spaces and human-computer interfaces for mindfulness, presentness and affective attunement

• Keeping abreast of meaningful/critical/dystopian AI futures -- specifically, its intersection with psychoanalysis and psychotherapy

• Repairing and crafting technology at Outside Computers

• Seeking sangha

Currently I am practicing as a therapist-in-training at MCM Collab, a BIPOC worker-owned psychotherapy cooperative, while pursuing a MSW at Smith College's School of Social Work. In the long term, I am orienting towards practicing psychoanalytic therapy and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

(Here is the "CV" portion of this site):

Since 2014, I have been teaching at Columbia GSAPP as an adjunct assistant professor, where I focus on teaching architectural representation and experimental design tools meant to shape the agency of the designer. These days, I primarily teach a long-running course (over 10 years!) called Metatool within the Computational Design Practices program, and advise students on their CDP capstone projects.

From 2012 - 2018, I co-founded, co-designed and collectively grew Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative. Prime Produce is a 7500 sqft cooperatively-run space for social good, or a 'commune for work' based in NYC. To me, it is an experiment in creating a vibrant, cooperatively-run third place oriented around the practice of service.

From 2019 - 2023, I taught thesis studio courses at NYU Integrated Design and Media. From 2022 - 2023, I also taught thesis studio courses at Parsons' Design and Technology MFA program. In Summer 2024, I taught at Cornell AAP in the Urban Design program.

From 2018 - 2021 I co-founded and helped cultivate a collective studio environment in a 4000 sqft warehouse in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn called Soft Surplus. At its best moments, I think of it as a life-experiment by a community of friends in earnest world-building; gradually crafting a studio space out of a former auto body shop allowed us to dream ways of working and learning together - and to make some of it possible. Soft Surplus existed as a collective from 2018-2022.

As a co-'proprietor' of Outside Computers, I currently work as an designer and technologist, working in architectural design, data visualization, web development, art installation, and physical computing. Past clients for design & technology work include: Canadian Centre for Architecture, RISD, Stephanie Dinkins, Sidewalk Labs, Superbright, The New Inquiry, Vera Institute of Justice, Pioneer Works, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Spatial Information Design Lab, NEW INC/GSAPP Incubator, Cornell Citizens and Technology Lab, and Blue Cliff Monastery.

My design/community work has been mentioned/published in Urban Omnibus, The Creative Independent, Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, The Politics of Parametricism, Project Journal, The New Yorker, The Observer, The Awl, Vice, The New York Times, among other publications.

Things I am thinking about lately:
Texts I'm thinking about / (re)reading lately:

More things I am interested in: Are.na

hello!


If you'd like to say hello; hello! I'm at

dan [at] dantaeyoung [dot] com.

or

tae [at] dantaeyoung [dot] com.

(a trail weaves into the landscape)