The Zip Tie Massimal is an architectural design research project that presents full-scale piece that explores the relationship between social engagement and built form. It invites the public to interact with it by touching, holding, and pulling and creates a spectacle in the form of a glowing volume comprised of over 20,000 zip ties.

Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (D.O.T.S) is a design research office founded by Jason Scroggin and Akari Takebayashi in 2009. D.O.T.S. engages a variety of projects dealing in architecture, landscape, urbanism, furniture, and graphic design.