Molly Hunker is co-captain of the award-winning creative studio SPORTS, based in Syracuse, New York – where she is also an assistant professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture. With projects including City Thread, a vibrant and immersive benching system woven through an alley in Chattanooga, Tennessee, SPORTS is focused on creating compelling spaces that are catalysts for social activities. 

They approach design in a playful way, by balancing rigour and research with amusement and curiosity, and with the ambition to generate fresh and unexpected experiences of the built environment. Much of their work has taken the form of public interventions that leverage the possibility for high-economy design gestures to have significant urban and community impacts. SPORTS is the recipient of a 2017 Arch League Prize from the Architectural League of NY, the 2018 Young Architect Award from The Architect’s Newspaper, and a 2017 ACSA Faculty Design Award.