Emily
Caywood

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Bird Bike (2025)

A spectacle device for a more animal public domain.

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Outside In (2024)

A welcome center for Ithaca, New York's Learning Farm.

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Paper Streets (2025)

Stop motion animation as an engagement tool for community-urban agriculture.

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You Dreamed of a Horse on the Train (2023)

Collapsing performance art and designed object to construct an urban horse.

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Best Bird (2025)

The ideal bird.

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Roofless Church with Flamingos (2023)

Geometrical analysis and reimagination of Phillip Johnson's Roofless Church.

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Hot Dog Marathon (2023-Present)

A free neighborhood celebration of Chicago's street food history.

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Horseless Caravan (2022)

A wearable spectacle device for streetside hand-balancing.

About

Emily Caywood designs apparatus, performances, and events which intervene in the public domain.

Her emphasis on movement and apparatus as modes of spatial co-construction emerges from her background as an acrobat, devising and performing in Chicago, Ithaca, and Rotterdam, NL. Her training situates spectacle as a powerful instrument for exchange.

Emily holds a B.A. in Dance from Wesleyan University (2017) and will complete her M.Arch at Cornell University in 2026. References available upon request.