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Office Anomalous is a research and spatial practice based between Detroit, MI and Rome, Italy. Our work spans between design and archival research, teaching and social action.
Tess Clancy is a designer and educator based between Detroit and Rome. Her research and creative practicedeal with the complex embedded power of monuments and the intersection between design and experimentalpreservation. She is currently the 2024-2026 Architecture (Muschenheim) Design Fellow at the University ofMichigan’s Taubman College, pursuing the project "Documenting Demolition: Experimental Preservation & Memorialization of Detroit’s Demolition Program." Prior work has been published in the Cornell Journal of Architecture and Hyphen Journal. She has held teaching positions at Taubman College, Cornell AAP and Penn State University’s Stuckeman School, and worked professionally for the New York firm New Affiliates and the Rome based office,Labics. She holds a BFA from Bryn Mawr College in Growth and Structure of Cities, and an MArch from Cornell AAP (2019), where her thesis, "Eroding the Confederacy: Revealing and Dismantling White Supremacy onRichmond's Monument Ave." won the Ruth Bentley and Richmond Harold Shreve Award.
Personal site: tessclancy.com
Massimiliano Massimiliani is an independent researcher living and working between Rome and Detroit. With a master’s degree in contemporary history, his research focuses on 20th-century global history and the history of the Italian and international labor movement, particularly in the Middle East and Ibero-America. Proudly from the Roman periphery, Massimiliani spent many years as a political and cultural activist and organizer. For a decade, he served on the Metropolitan Council of Rome, where he focused on social, migration, environmental, and urban planning policies. As half of Office Anomalous (with Tess Clancy) his work also investigates how archival research, organizing and social activism can integrate with an architecture practice to produce projects with an awareness of social and political history and an emphasis on community engagement.
Personal site: massimiliani.substack.com