NEXT.CC - Key Persons
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- As President, Nicholas Charles Peterman, AIAs Officer, AMbassadors to National AIAs, NOMAs Chapters ( UWM )
Andrew is a designer, builder, thinker, maker and creator. Educated at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he attempted a campus wide recycling movement, he was instrumental in expanding NEXT.cc from the original 16 journeys to over the first 100. He set up the link checker and the site tracker programs. Completing a Master's of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is a design engineer at A. Zahner Company that works at the intersection of art and architecture, exploring its interface with an infinite series of disparate things.
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- Co - Founder
- Member of the Outreach Board
- President
METIS Design LLC is the architecture firm co-founded by Anna Ninoyu, AIA and her husband Kris Gorospe as a conduit for cultural exchange and innovative design for functional and life-improving environments. Together they have practiced for established design and construction firms in Chicago for a combined 25 years, leading projects of various scales and complexities. With their involvement at the School of the Art Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology, American Institute of Architects, U.S.-Japan Council, and American Society of Healthcare Engineers, their passion is to prepare the next generation of architects to be creative and responsible thinkers and global collaborators. METIS serves to represent a high standard for aspiring and practicing architects and help diversify the design and construction industry with cultural and environmental ambassadorship.
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- Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Ball State University & Principal, COSTELLO ASSOCIATES
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- Spanish Art Nouveau Architect
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- Member of the Outreach Board
- Graphic Intern
Ashley is currently a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus in Visual Communication. For NEXT.cc, she designed multiple mini-infographics for journeys, flashcards, workbooks, and more. Her experience in NEXT.cc gave her a chance to help students and teachers, which she is grateful for.
Bob Tiede was first to create web layout and navigation for the original 16 NEXT.cc journeys. Graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, he contributed multifaceted talents as NEXT.cc gained national and international recognition. Designer of many of the captivating graphics including the iconic 9 scales and logo, Bob concentrates on conceptual navigation, layout, coding, and graphic art. In addition to visual critique, Bob designs and fabricates furniture and practices architecture in an award-winning Appleton architecture firm.
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- Ambassador / Adjunct Professor, Historic Preservation, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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- Member of the Outreach Board
- College Teacher, NGSS Alignment & STEM to STEAM Via DESIGN Scienc
Debra Henning aligned NEXT.cc Journeys with the Next Generation Science Standards. Drawing on both research and classroom experience, she targeted the Journeys and links that enable teachers to bring the Disciplinary Core Ideas easily to life in their own classrooms. Debra completed an undergraduate crafts major and worked as a studio potter before beginning a teaching career spanning kindergarten to college classrooms. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, she studied the scientific foundations of John Dewey's education experiment, one of our earliest models of transdisciplinary learning. Through teaching, grant writing, and curriculum development, Debra helps fuel the STEM to STEAM and Design Thinking movements that are bringing Dewey's active learning to a new generation of students.
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- Vice President / Chair, Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Member of the Outreach Board
Esma graduated with a master of science degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, following her master of fine arts degree in interior architecture and environmental design from Bilkent University in Turkey. After teaching at the Savannah College of Art and Design's (SCAD) interior design department in Savannah, GA for fifteen years, she joined Bilkent Üniversity as faculty in the interior architecture department. Her focus in freelance practice is lighting design and she served as the International Association of Lighting Designers' (IALD) Education Trust's scholarship committee as chair, helping the organization encourage and fund talented lighting students around the globe. At the time when her children attended one of US's oldest Montessori schools, Esma served as a school council member acting as a bridge between the School and the County School Board. In the early 90s, she spent one year as a high school exchange student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and she now has her children attending K-12 in multiple continents, gaining first-hand experience in educational and socio-cultural diversity. Esma has a passion for education, educational pedagogy, and reform, and believes all three are components for building a better world. Esma loves painting, art, nature walks, traveling, and reading.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
After decades as a manufacturing executive who traveled the world to make, buy and sell engineered products, Jackie joined NEXT.cc to help change the world! With degrees in mechanical engineering, finance, and historic preservation, Jackie works the business and outreach phases of NEXT.cc. Jackie's lifelong and varied interests in the built environment, education, STEAM, research, travel, photography, and writing are built into her consulting work with Promising2Performing. Everyone and everything has promise and purpose. Jackie aids their transition to efficiency and performance.
Since graduating from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture, Jeff has explored the relationship between design and film working as a freelance filmmaker and videographer. Jeff is also a founding member of Moleskin Productions, a group of artists of different backgrounds that combine, music, writing, acting, digital media, art, and design to create films for clients, competitions, and the web. He now creates brand videos for Harly Davidson.
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- Graphic Designer
- Researcher
Having previously studied music performance at UW-Milwaukee, Jonathan Nelson found his calling in architectural design, and hasn't turned back since. His diverse background as a musician and designer helped him contribute to NEXT.cc's unique, integrated journeys. Graduating from UW-Milwaukee, he now works in Seattle where he uses his experiences to design architecture that solves social, environmental, and economic problems simultaneously.
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- Graphic Arts and Fine Arts Chair, Cedarburg High School
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- Member of the Outreach Board
- Intern, KIDMob Creator, Outreach Workshops
Kadi is a NEXTer from the first Eco Design class at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After completing her BFA at SAIC, she attended ARCHEWORKs in Chicago and recently completed a Master of Architecture at the University of California-Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley she created KIDMob a group of Graduate Architecture Students who believe in the transformative potential of design and iteration. She takes her passion for design to the road and conducts design-intensive workshops with 7th and 8th grade students sharing NEXT.cc journeys. She currently works at AUTODesk in the Design Education Division.
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- Graphic Designer
- Researcher
Kelsey joined NEXT.cc as a freshman from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture and a minor in graphic design. Bringing artistic experience in traditional and digital media as well as music (drums, piano, saxophone, writing, and recording), he focuses on the development of graphics and research for new journeys. Kelsey's interest in connecting art and design coincides with his desire to approach problems in new ways. His chair "Quadro" took first place in the 2017 SARUP Nemschoff Chair Design Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Kevin was a self-employed builder in rural Kentucky before returning to UW-Milwaukee to earn his Bachelors of Science in Architecture. Beginning as a Next.cc Pilot Partner, examining and testing journeys, his duties quickly expanded to new journey research, graphic design, web management, editing, grant proposal writing, and press releases. Kevin continues to keep involved in NEXT.cc's development. Currently, he has achieved his Master of Architecture degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design and is working.
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- Graphic Designer
- Researcher
Keyi Zhang is a recent BFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Keyi focused on Architecture, Eco Design, and Historic Preservation during her undergraduate studies. Most of her designs deal with conflicts and cooperation between historic-cultural context and future development. Her installation proposes and considers time, space, and material flow. Keyi is very passionate about Graphic Design, and is excited to be able to communicate design ideas with others with her drawings. She has been instrumental in creating many journeys on NEXT.cc and starting NEXT.cc's Worksheets series for K12 students.
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- Communications Director
- Member of the Outreach Board
Ljiljana is a Public History-Museum Studies and History M.A., having earned her degrees from Eastern Illinois University and UW-Milwaukee. She also holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Helen Bader Institute of Nonprofit Management at UW- Milwaukee. Over the years she has interned, volunteered, and worked in a number of museums across Milwaukee and Chicago. She began collaborating with NEXT.cc after meeting Linda Keane at a Chicago HIVE workshop, and later co-writing a grant with NEXT.cc. Currently, she is employed at Elmhurst College, where she is a Prospect Research Coordinator.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
Marie is an architectural designer who explores how design influences the ways we learn, work and play. For her thesis, she studied how architecture can connect students to their environments by using the city, site, building, and interior as scales of one interconnected learning environment, specifically to support the holistic pedagogy of Montessori. Marie especially has a passion for introducing kids to design opportunities and STEAM education. She coordinates the partnership between NEXT.cc's ELearning and AIA Chicago's "Architects in Schools" program. She has a Master of Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati and is excited to join her passion of working with students and school design.
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- President / Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture and Urban Planning / University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Member of the Outreach Board
- Cartoonist, Graphic Designer, Art Educator
Lee, a 2011 MAAE graduate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, focuses on digital technology and design in higher education. His thesis, Digital Technology and Design in Art Education features NEXT.cc and other design progressives. Studying Graphic Design at the University of Michigan (BFA 2003), he served as a TA for the Department of Art & Design and taught drawing and painting at the Ann Arbor Art Center. He works as a graphic artist in Ann Arbor, MI in the winter season and operates a candy shop on Mackinac Island, MI in the summer. A past ballroom competitor, he can often be found teaching dancing, as well as drawing. Lee's Illustration and Cartoons.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
- Researcher, Blogger, Workshops
Maureen is an architectural designer, educator, and activist. She worked as the NAAB Accreditation Coordinator and taught in the graduate architecture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her Master of Architecture in 2010. An Eco Design NEXTer, she is currently the Project Manager at Blue Moon Rising, an environmental retreat on Deep Creek Lake, Maryland where she contributes to design and educational programming. In addition to NEXT.cc, she currently mentors middle and high school students.
A recent MFA Interior Architecture graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nahyeong brings a decade of architectural study and experience from Korea. She creates designs with natural forms and processes as she believes nature is the most important connection for human life. Nahyeong enjoys investigating sources, forms, and materials of nature in creating eco-friendly responses and environments.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
Paige Alfuth is an architectural intern at Boer Architects, Inc., Milwaukee, where she leads programming, space planning, and interior design efforts. Responsible for Construction Documents, Design, and Project Coordination, she joined Habitat for Humanity to support community and human rights and to gain perspective on the built environment. Outside of work Paige spends her time at the front desk of Yama Yoga enjoying opportunities to expand her practice of mind, body, and spirit. Lately devoted to brewing kombucha and learning fermentation processes, she gardens, cooks, explores oils and herbs, and creates art. She also loves to spend time with family, friends, and pets and travels whenever/wherever possible.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
- Information Management Assistant, Workshops
Rebecca assists with the teacher and student workshops for NEXT.cc. An Associate Designer with Soucie Horner, Chicago, she is a graduate of The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studying in Chicago and Paris, before completing a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with a minor in Art History. She is preparing for graduate school followed by professional licensing. Her studies, travels, and experiences are just a glimpse of what's ahead in her future for working with design.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
Architect, educator, and environmentalist Robin Randall leads Legat Architects' K-12 Education practice. She directs planning and design for over a hundred K-12 and higher education projects during her 25 years in the industry. Robin also founded EDlab, a research engine aimed at achieving better learning environments and understanding how sustainability impacts communities Randall is currently Robin competes in mini-triathlons to balance her love of chocolate. Hobbies are traveling to modern twentieth-century architectural sites and organic gardening.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
- Lighting Designer
Sonya studied Lighting Design at Parsons The New School building upon her BA in Architecture from Taiwan. She then completed an MFA in Interior Architecture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Interested in the mix of eastern and western architecture, interior architecture, and lighting in new and innovative spatial experiences, she embeds social and environmental issues throughout her design projects. Working between Taiwan and the US, Sonya contributes journeys and introduces NEXT.cc's Eco Web to Taiwanese schools. She works as a lighting designer on varied space types including aviation, residential, office, and hospitality worldwide. Her lighting projects focus on providing sufficient illumination, reflecting and respecting architectural elements, and creating atmosphere. Sonya's website ChinyunLai.
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- Webmaster, Lead Information Manager
Ted Kimble began working with NEXT.cc while completing his Master of Architecture degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, after previously earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics at Macalester College. His interest in science and theory continues as studies the implications that a Deleuzian neo-materialist philosophy has on the design process. He masterminded the open source management for NEXT.cc and currently works as an independent designer, writer, and artist. He maintains a practice of digitally innovative works in Seattle.
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- Principal, Shorewood High School Formerly Atwater Elementary School, Math Teacher
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- Treasurer / Senior Advisor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Drawing from a diverse educational background beginning in Industrial Design, then Music Performance, and having recently graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Tom considers himself to be a lifelong student of design, allowing it to take him wherever it demands.Portfolio. Ever seeking new experiences and encounters that might build upon past experiences and knowledge, allowing him to approach static, ordinary tasks with a broader, more diverse perspective, Tom hopes to never stop learning and is a passionate believer in the importance and responsibility of design. He currently serves as Manager of User Experience Design at Advicent.
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- Member of the Outreach Board
Victoria is an energetic advocate for environmental education. Founding Teacher at River Crossing Environmental Charter School, she authored Hands On, Feet Wet: The Story of River Crossing Environmental Charter School and Hands-On, Earth Math: Digging Deeper into Environmental Topics. Wisconsin Conservation Congress Educator of the Year, she serves as coordinator for Wisconsin's Green Schools Network, teaches Science and Environmental Education Methods at Edgewood College, serves as the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Environmental Education Consultant, and is a National Environmental Education Advisory Council Member for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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- Ambassador to China, BKL Architects, Shanghai, China