Plus/And is a
civic design studio
built on the belief that
stronger relationships
make better cities.
Using public art
and experience design, we create tools and spaces that help people connect with each other and their environment in order to adapt to our evolving world.
Our projects are joyful art-based experiments with measurable outcomes for our community collaborators.
Emily Stover crosses design disciplines to create public art installations and engaging experiences in and about public space. Using her background in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism, she questions our complex relationships to each other and the land we inhabit. Past work includes a seasonal market in a public park, a mobile kitchen for making and sharing food, and an interactive light installation on an energy utility. As an instructor and researcher at the University of Minnesota College of Design, she focuses on creative problem-solving and innovation practices in the public sector.
Amanda Lovelee is an artist who translates between cities and people with the goal of building an environment everyone wants to inhabit. Her work explores how and where people connect within contemporary society. Projects focusing on civic engagement include Pop Up Meeting, a city popsicle truck for collecting resident input on public projects, and Urban Flower Field, a vacant lot transformed into a gathering space and living science project. She has an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and BFA in Photography from University of Hartford.
While we welcome any challenge that comes our way, here are some things we’re known for:
Environmental Public Art
Civic Sculpture
Object Design
Interactive Technology
Experience Design
Community Engagement
Co-Design Facilitation
Strategic Problem-Solving
Cultural Policy + Planning
Our context-specific projects range from civic scale interactive installations to land-based art, and from temporary interventions to sculptural space.
We love finding partners with the courage to dream big with us. Here are a few of the organizations we’ve worked with:
| Bakken Museum |
| Bloomington Placemaking Commission |
| City of Saint Paul |
| District Energy Saint Paul |
| Forecast Public Art |
| Franconia Sculpture Park |
| Frogtown Farm |
| Goldstein Museum of Design |
| Grand Marais Art Colony |
| Group Creative |
| Green Minneapolis |
| Hennepin County |
| Metro Transit |
| MIA |
| Minneapolis Convention Center |
| Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District |
| Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |
| Minnesota Design Center |
| Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge |
| Nine Mile Creek Watershed |
| NorthernLights.MN |
| Public Art Saint Paul |
| Somali Museum of Minnesota |
| Saint Paul Downtown Alliance |
| Twin Rivers Council for the Arts |
| Union Park District Council |
| Walker Art Center |
| Weisman Art Museum |
Making big plans? If you have a creative challenge that you think we’re a good fit for, we’d love to talk more.
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