Developh is a research & arts institution for critical technologies in the Philippines and online, tending an archipelagic internet.

Orienting the third world internet towards more interdependent & intentional technologies and networks, we are tropical technologists that seek to visibilize and question how our infrastructures, from land, sea, to body, have been exploited and fragmented by technology, but might also be repaired & reclaimed by it.

Engaged in art, academic, and technological discourses around labor, climate, and media, our thinking & work exists between the human & non-human, the local & global, offline & online, natural & artificial, and the practical & speculative.

Founded in 2016 by Chia Amisola in Manila, Philippines, we've been nurtured by rotating companies of collaborators ever since: from technologists, students, artists, designers, writers, researchers, always with an expansive view of what being a 'technologist' means.

In many ways, Developh has always been a container for ourselves as people immersed in increasingly technologically-mediated worlds. Developh has emerged out of necessity: we wish to steward technological narratives from the third world that center symbiosis, progress, and intimacy without falling into exploitation, dominance, and empire. From the third world, to many worlds.

Contact

Reach Developh (Chia Amisola) by emailing us at core@developh.org — we're open to project collaborations, curation, partnerships, etc.

Press

Forbes 30 Under 30
Manila Bulletin
BOMB Magazine
Inquirer
The Philippine Star
Adobo Magazine
Spot.ph
UX+ 2024

Support

We are an independent space, but are thankful for past support (in grants & residencies) from:
* Processing Foundation
* Internet Archive, DWeb Camp
* We Are Family Foundation
* Tsai CITY, Yale University
* NEWINC Art & Code (Rhizome & the New Museum)