Sage Kosmala - Artist

My creative practice investigates family history and cross-generational craft traditions as forms of informal knowledge production that intersect with urban infrastructure and housing systems. By combining traditional craft techniques with discarded and repurposed materials, I examine how people adapt to, modify, and maintain domestic and urban environments outside of nuclear household models and formal planning frameworks. The work proposes craft as a parallel methodology to city-making—one rooted in use, repair, and lived experience rather than permanence or efficiency.

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Operating across scales from the street to the home, my work considers how materials move between private and public space, and how everyday acts of making contribute to the shaping of urban environments. I focus on remnants of familial and communal practices—objects, textiles, and materials that function as quiet infrastructures of care and survival within housing contexts. These remnants become sites through which to examine how people navigate housing precarity, density, and the layered histories embedded within built environments.

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My projects take the form of multi-layered installations and domestic-scale objects that invite bodily and spatial engagement. This participatory approach reflects my interest in how individuals interact with the built environment over time, and how meaning is generated through repeated use, modification, and repair.

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