About
The Institute for Aesthletics designs physical play. We create sports, games, community art projects, play installations, toys, play-based learning projects, play-based integration projects, and play spaces.
The Institute grew out of the invention of the sport of Wiffle Hurling in 2005. Since then, it regularly organizes sporting events, participates in art events and festivals, collaborates with artists, educators, and makers, and develops workshops and educational curricula.
In an increasingly digital world, we see physical play as an open culture that has boundless potential for new forms, and love making and sharing our games with people.
"There are people who are doing things that are so much the things I want to see people doing that I can do no more than let them speak for themselves, entirely. The Institute for Aesthletics is exemplary of such examples."
— Bernie De Koven, Games Guru
PressTom Russotti has performed and taught at venues such as SFMOMA, The Tate Modern, The Bronx Museum, The New Museum, The Kumu Art Museum, and The Center for Contemporary Art and the Natural World. He has a degree in history from Stanford University and an MFA in visual art from Rutgers University, where he studied sport as an art form. He resides in Denver, Colorado.
Design Philosophy Who We Have Worked With- The Tate Modern
- The Phillips Collection
- Kumu National Art Museum of Estonia
- SFMOMA
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Bronx Museum
- Center for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
- Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
- Conduit Gallery
- Brooklyn College Community Partnership
- Rutgers University
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Cologne Media Academy
- London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
- Munich Refugee Council
- One Caucuses
- The Lab San Francisco
- Culture Factory Polymer, Estonia
- Not Quite
- Steneby Art College
- Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana
- Project Worthmore
- The Giving Place
- Come Out And Play
- Quest2Learn School
- The Blue School
- Saint Ann’s School
- Washington Square Park Council
