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Rachel Mulder is an architectural designer, artist and dog lover currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan Alfred A. Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning and a Masters of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture where she received the Gertraud A. Wood fellowship and the AIA Henry Adam Medal of Academic Excellence. While at Yale, Rachel nurtured a love for teaching as an tundergraduate studio course teaching fellow. She has a fondness for glitter, squishy, color, and the slightly grotesque. Outside of Thing Thing Rachel works on community led design projects with community members and school students as well as temporary installations.

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Simon Anton is an artist and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. He has a bachelors from U of M's Taubman College of Architecture Urban Planning and an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art where he received the President's Award for Sustainability and the Redmond Prize. Anton has worked across the fields of architecture, interior design, furniture, art, jewelry and cocktails. After suffering a profound family loss he cofounded Got Grief House a non-profit with the mission to support Detroit children and families experiencing grief. He enjoys judo, rollerskating and sitting in saunas. He is a member of Matterfruit, a Detroit artist cooperative.

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Jimbo spent much of his childhood in Metro Detroit and Tokyo, concentrated on reading manga comics, skiing, and bickering with his older sisters. His innate technical abilities and deep curiosity led him to receive a Masters of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California in Berkeley. During his time at Berkeley, he received the John K Branner fellowship, and taught a wide range of subjects including construction, mass timber, structures, California countercultures, and Geography. Jimbo loves a bustling italian arcade, front porches, gradients, Memphis group, and radical science fiction books. He has shown collaborative work at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Shenzhen Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture, and Venice Architecture Biennale. Jimbo is unshakable balanced demeanor, mad culinary skills, and enthusiastic billiards games. He is currently working as a carpenter building fabulous homes in Seattle. His time is now spent kitesurfing, woodworking, and raising his ham of a one year old, Zea.