Our Team
nathalie attallah
nathalie is a multidisciplinary artist-designer whose ethics-centered practice explores how anti-colonial mythologies, relational ecologies, and collaborative worldmaking shape the environments we move through.
Educated in psychology (UEA), digital anthropology (UCL), and design (Harvard), she grounds her work in process, care, and a commitment to staying with complexity rather than resolving it. Nathalie co-authored Errant Design (Valiz) and develops relational tools—such as the Biodiversity+ Design Toolkit and participatory research frameworks—that unsettle extractive design logics. She also works with the Institute for Worldmaking on Arab futurisms and speculative cultural practices. With a practice rooted in environmental attunement, Nathalie brings to the studio a sensitivity to materials, ecologies, and community-based forms of inquiry. Her films, sculptures, and installations have been presented internationally, including at the Cooper Hewitt, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, DOXA, MIT ACT Gallery, the Beirut International Film Festival, and the Kirkland Gallery.
max stearns
max is a design-led researcher. As Co-Founder of Errantry Media Lab, he helps shape the studio's approach to inquiry and practice—exploring how relationships construct the realities we navigate, from intimate connections to civic and systemic scales.
Educated in transdisciplinary design with an MFA from Parsons School of Design, max co-leads the studio's research into how we relate to the world and to each other. He brings ten years of experience in design research, democratic engagement, and the messy, necessary work of staying-with-complexity rather than solving-it-away. With a careful attention to what each situation asks for, max is always ready to sit with difficult questions and respond with bespoke approaches rather than replicated solutions.