The Outdoor Office will exhibit and promote the work done during the research and development phase of the Outdoor Office. An exhibition at CENTRO Diseño in Mexico City will showcase the research and design from academic Outdoor Office workshops held by Jonathan Olivares and the Outdoor Office designed at Jonathan Olivares Design Research. A website (http://www.outdoor-office.com) will serve as a digital portfolio of the work done during the R&D phase of this project and of the exhibit in Mexico City.

Jonathan Olivares was born in Boston in 1981. He graduated from Pratt Institute's Industrial Design Program in 2004 and worked for Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich in 2005. Returning to Boston in 2006, he founded Jonathan Olivares Design Research, an office specializing in furniture, product, lighting, interior, and exhibition design as well as design- focused research and writing. In 2008, Olivares taught a design workshop at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and was a guest designer in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Designed Objects Program. His office's clients include manufacturers of design, Knoll, Inc., Danese Milano, Driade, and Artemide. Olivares's writing has appeared in Domus, Abitare, and Dwell, and his first book A Taxonomy of Office Chairs, was published by Phaidon Press in 2011. Olivares's products define a culture of function that is specific for today's activity and technology.