We are MA-MI, a LA based creative studio that creates objects, interventions and activations with love.
Mia Imani
Mia Imani is a spiritual technologist, speculative architect, and dream doula. She researches how communities can heal individual, communal, societal, and geographical trauma by creating works that live between art, ritual, and science. This “third-way” mixes unconventional methods (dreams, rituals) and science (ethnography, geography, psychoanalysis) to create new worlds and ways of being and becoming. Her creative and collaborative work has lived in Arts at King Street Station, Akademie Schloss, Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Kunsthalle Gent, PICA, Prater Galerie, Seattle Art Museum Lab, Savvy Contemporary, Wa Na Wari & more. She maps healing technologies and recently co-published the first academic article about dream technology and the radical rest movement.
Mayola Tikaka
Mayola Tikaka is an international architect and art director. His work lies in the implications of space through data, human organization and their cultural influence through the lens of architecture. He specializes in scenography, brand identity and spatial storytelling. Recent projects and awards include: DREAM TEMPLE (for Octavia) 2024 – Arts at King Street Station (Seattle), AIA LA NextLA 2022 Merit award, Echo Park Co-Living with West of West (Los Angeles); Retail scenography and brand experiences – Garrett Leight California Optical *longlisted on the 2023 Dezeen Awards, Metabolic Selves - An interactive digital exhibition 2020 – Serpentine Galleries (London); A contributor for the Race Space Architecture Project 2020 (London), and more.