Restoring and cultivating spaces for creative expression.
UNFOLD PROJECTS is a regenerative design platform modeling stewardship for an evolving earth. Designed with ecology and artistry at the forefront, our projects are an invitation to rediscover.
Our aim is to champion coexistence, complexity, and confidence in the messy middle, fostering deeper relationships between artists and their practice, individuals and their communities, and people and the places they inhabit.
Our Ethos
Encinitas
Edition 01
The catalyst to our origin story and broader work. Our first Edition in Encinitas will be host to the first UNFOLD Artist Residency. The site—a jewel of Californian organic modernism designed by architects Kendrick Bangs Kellogg and daughter Shanna Kellogg—shares our working model for adaptive regeneration.
Explore Encinitas
Idyllwild
Edition 02
An A-frame nestled among cedar and pine trees, our second Edition is in its first stages of rediscovery to serve as a future host to our next artist residency by 2027. Here, play is potent given the storybook landscape that surrounds it. We are currently forming a regionally based Guild to shape the home’s next chapter.
Explore IdyllwildTime and space for creative regeneration.
The UNFOLD RESIDENCY provides artists across disciplines with the conditions to step outside of the frantic daily cycle of production and into a sphere of self-expansion, working toward a mutual goal of planetary and interpersonal care.
Our Encinitas Edition’s Residency is accepting applications now. Our first artist-in-residence will be hosted in late Summer, September 2026, at UNFOLD’s Edition in Encinitas, California.
Our Residencies
Our residency intentionally prioritizes applications from women, transgender, nonbinary, and gender-marginalized artists, Black, Indigenous, artists of color, and low-income artists.