My experience as an entrepreneur has manipulated the lens through which I view the built environment and how we move within it. For the last ten years, I have been working at the level of micro-mobility, specifically human-powered vehicles and community, establishing a neighborhood bike shop/community space. The human-powered vehicle is a small but integral detail in discussing infrastructure, energy consumption, and quality of life. The human-powered vehicle scale creates space for communities to come together through familiar but equitable environments.
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Architecture, Alternate Transit Infrastructure, Community Investment
Teaching
courses taught
ENVD 1010 - Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design
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Fall 2023
The first of four introductory studios introduces students to concepts and techniques related to the design of products at a human scale. In an immersive project-based studio environment students develop the foundation of design communication and thinking through a series of hands-on projects with physical outcomes.
ENVD 1110 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Environmental Products of Design
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Fall 2024
Building on the foundation introduced in EPoD Studio 1, this studio introduces students to more advanced methodologies and techniques related to the design of products at a human scale while considering the interdisciplinary nature of the other specializations. Using complementary skills in 3D modeling, drawing, diagramming, and through physical making and fabrication, students explore imaginative and innovative design solutions of small-scale products.
ENVD 1130 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture
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Fall 2023
Building on skills learned from the introductory studio, this course expands the skills and knowledge needed for the practice of landscape architecture. With a focus on resilient design and an exploration through multiple scales, students design ecological systems in an urban context.
ENVD 1140 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Planning and Urban Design
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Fall 2022
Through a small-scale urban planning and design project, students explore solutions to challenges in dynamic urban systems. Builds on knowledge and skills gained in the introductory studios to explore the human and environmental dimensions of intertwined systems within the built environment.
ENVD 3100 - ENVD Interdisciplinary Design Studio
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
This studio exposes students to a sequence of design investigations that lead to the development of design concepts for critical evaluation and discussion. Students will explore fundamental design practices that are common to the disciplines of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and product design. Students will work on a project that provides an opportunity to integrate the various disciplines of environmental design. ENVD 3100 fulfills the Pick One studio requirement for ENVD majors. It does not fulfill the ENVD major-specific 3100 studio requirement. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
ENVD 4979 - Honors Thesis
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Fall 2024
Working with an advisor, students prepare, complete, and defend an honors thesis project, either written or creative.
EPOD 2004 - History and Theory of Environmental Products of Design
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Provides a general overview of the theories that inform design, while focusing on 20th century history and theory around the making of products. Recommended corequisite: EPOD 2100.
EPOD 3100 - Studio 2: Intermediate Environmental Products of Design
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2024
Introduces students to innovative emerging technologies and techniques in digital fabrication and design through a project-based studio environment. Students will be asked to develop design solutions that could be leveraged to benefit humanity through material investigations, cradle-to-cradle methodology, and more advanced methods in design optimization. Recommended corequisite: EPOD 3101. Repeatable for up to 12 total credit hours.
