Friends of the Pleistocene is a project of the non-profit design studio and art collaborative smudge (smudge studio inc.) based in Brooklyn, NY. During 002010-002011 FOP was the producer of smudge's project Geologic City , funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, Architecture Planning & Design program and by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
FOP produces and carries out research and design projects. Our projects respond to conjunctures of landscape and human activity shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene, and geologic time more generally. Our interactive events and devices (for visualization, interpretation, imaginative and cognitive projections) invite humans to project their imaginations from present land use back into geologic time and forward into speculative geo- and bio-futures. Our mission is to extend humans’ capacities to se