Work / Google

Google

Role
Global Program Lead — Placemaking, Art Curation & AI Prototyping · former
Period
2020 – 2025
Scope
1.5M sq ft of public space serving 5M people across six countries

I built Google’s global placemaking and art-curation programs from the ground up — defining how Google shows up in physical space. Over six years I managed 1.5 million square feet of public real estate serving five million people across six countries, built a 40-vendor creative ecosystem, and commissioned more than 200 art projects and installations.

The work spanned two threads: shaping the public realm of Google’s campuses into places that serve their surrounding communities, and scaling AI-artist collaborations from lab experiments into public exhibitions — a lineage rooted in the first neural-network × artist exhibition we produced years earlier.

Placemaking

  • Visitors walking beneath Halo by SOFTlab — an iridescent dichroic-glass archway — at the Google Visitor Experience.
    Google Visitor Experience

    Google’s first year-round public destination — a Google Store, its first brick-and-mortar cafe, community space, and public plazas — led end-to-end within a $1B+, 16-acre development and reaching 2,000 daily visitors.

    Mountain View, CA
  • The historic green Marine & Aviation Pier 57 building on the Hudson River, New York.
    Pier 57

    Experiential public programs at Google’s Hudson River waterfront landmark, home to a rooftop park and public market hall.

    New York
  • Google's King's Cross landscraper with its rooftop garden and the London skyline beyond.
    King's Cross · Platform 37

    Google’s London campus and first ground-up development in Europe, with Heatherwick Studio and BIG. Its landmark building, Platform 37 (Bjarke Ingels and Heatherwick Studio), opens a public ground-floor AI Exchange — free educational programming, interactive exhibitions, and cultural events.

    London
  • Aerial view of Google's Boland's Mill development at Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
    Boland's Mill

    Experiential public programs at Google’s Dublin campus in the historic Boland’s Mill, on the quays at Grand Canal Dock.

    Dublin
  • The Arnulfpost courtyard at night with hanging art banners and people gathered for an event.
    Arnulfpost

    A 1920s modernist postal building reimagined as a workplace with public areas, landscaped courtyards, and events open to the city.

    Munich

Art & machine intelligence

  • Artists + Machine Intelligence

    The world’s first neural-network × artist exhibition — DeepDream, which we produced at Gray Area in 2016 — established ethical frameworks for AI-creative collaboration that influenced Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program.

    2016
  • A large LED wall of generative floral artwork from Google's Gradient Canvas collection, mirrored on a polished floor.
    Gradient Canvas

    An AI-art collection we curated for Google’s AI headquarters — featuring Refik Anadol, Trevor Paglen, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, and Rashaad Newsome — scaling AI-artist collaborations from lab experiments to public exhibition with Google Research and DeepMind.

    Google AI HQ
  • The PromptDJ-MIDI interface — a grid of glowing genre knobs (Chillwave, Shoegaze, Funk) steering a real-time generative music model.
    PromptDJ-MIDI

    An AI music prototype we supported — featured on the main stage at Google I/O — that steers a real-time generative model with weighted prompts and a MIDI controller, blending styles live, like a DJ.

    Google I/O
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