PUBLIC-INTEREST DESIGN - Key Persons
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- Professor of Architecture
Alan J. Plattus is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Yale University School of Architecture, where he teaches courses on architectural history and theory, urban history and design, and directs the School's China Studio. He founded and directs the Yale Urban Design Workshop, a community design center that has undertaken urban design and building projects throughout Connecticut and around the world. Current projects include plans for the cities of West Haven, New London, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, a 13-unit affordable housing project in Bridgeport, a study for the Naugatuck Valley Industrial Heritage Corridor, and the development of a Peace Park along the Jordan River between Israel and Jordan. Professor Plattus has lectured and published on the history of cities and civic pageantry, as well as on modern architecture and urbanism. Research interests include industrial and post-industrial cities in the United States and abroad, urban design history and theory, and sustainable urbanism. He lives along the northeast corridor between New Haven, Boston and Mt. Desert Island in Maine.
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- Co - Founder of MASS Design Group
Alan Ricks is the Co-Founder of MASS Design Group, which is an design firm geared towards improving health outcomes in resource-limited settings. As Chief Operating Officer, he manages the firm's multiple offices where he has overseen rapid growth, while leading projects with NGOs, foreign and domestic governments, as well as in the private sector. Projects of note include: The Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, a finalist for 2011 World Architecture Festival Health Project of the Year, the GHESKIO Tuberculosis Hospital in Haiti, research on infection control and health facility design for USAID, and policy writing for the Liberian Ministry of Health. He was named to Forbes Magazine's 2012, 30 under 30 list of the most influential people in art and design and received Contract magazine's Designer of the Year award with co-founder Michael Murphy in 2012. Alan received his Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Colorado College and his Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Alice Shay is an urban planner and designer living in New York City. She currently works with WXY Architecture and Urban Design on a range of public realm planning and design projects, from waterfront infrastructure to brownfields opportunity areas to strategic regional planning. Before working with WXY, she collaborated with Solo Kota Kita on Firm Foundation and City Development Strategies with UN-HABITAT in Indonesia. She has also developed research on urban void space with the Strelka Institute in Moscow and public realm strategies in London.
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- Acting Executive Director at Dutchtown South Community Corporation in South St
Amanda Colon-Smith is the Acting Executive Director at Dutchtown South Community Corporation in South St. Louis. She works with a range of stakeholders in the Dutchtown, Gravois Park, Marine Villa, and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods. The organization focuses on Housing Development and Stabilization as well as Community Planning and Facilitation. The organization seeks to advance neighborhood vitality through resident-led activities. As the Program Director at the organization over the last 3 years, she has engaged residents and supported them in building the neighborhoods they want and deserve. She is also motivated by the possibilities in integrating the arts into community development initiatives and is a graduate of Regional Arts Commission's Community Arts Training Program.
Amanda Rivera, AIA, Senior Associate, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. Amanda has actively managed a diverse range of projects for the firm since 2003. Amanda brings a critical perspective to her work, which is evident in her most recent string of assignments, including Crescent Park, L.B. Landry High School, New Orleans East Hospital and the Louisiana SPCA Campus Expansion. Promoted to Senior Associate in 2015, Amanda is a Board Member for the AIA New Orleans, a founding member of the Young Architects Forum New Orleans Chapter, and a regular design critic at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. In 2014 Amanda served as the National Greenbuild Convention Legacy Project Chair for the USGBC Louisiana Chapter.
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- Executive Director of HousingNOLA
Andreanecia M. Morris, Executive Director of HousingNOLA. Andreanecia has worked to create affordable housing opportunities in both the public and private sector. HousingNOLA is New Orleans's 10-Year housing strategy and implementation plan. HousingNOLA offers a road map to insure that strategic choices are made to address inequity issues in housing. The plan works to address the need for 33,600 additional affordable housing opportunities in the city by 2025 for households at almost every level. Since graduating Loyola University, In 2016, Morris was named Outstanding Advocate for Affordable Housing by UNITY of Greater New Orleans.
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- Associate Professor, NCSU
- Professional
Andy Fox is a professional landscape architect (PLA), Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, and NC State University Faculty Scholar. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the Coastal Dynamics Design Lab (CDDL), an interdisciplinary research and design initiative housed within the NC State College of Design that addresses critical ecological and community development challenges in coastal regions.
Andy Hill, AIA, is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Co-Director of the Coastal Dynamics Design Lab at the College of Design where he has taught full-time since 2007. While at NC State, he has led graduate and undergraduate design studios, digital representation courses, and seminars that focus on integrative digital simulation processes, architectural prototypes, and design strategies for coastal regions.
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- Associate at Raymond Harris & Associates
Andy Moon: is an Associate at Raymond Harris & Associates (RHA) Architects in Dallas. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from The University of Texas at Arlington, and now holds registrations in Texas and Colorado. Since joining RHA in 2005, his primary focus has been on the design, pre-production, and entitlement (upfront approval process through the jurisdiction) of projects, working on a variety of retail formats across the U.S. This means most weeks consist of at least one neighborhood workshop, Planning & Zoning hearing, or City Council meeting. He is also very excited to serve as Co-Chair of the 2015 AIA Emerging Leaders Program. As a participant in AIA ELP class in 2014, he led the team of architects that tackled the first phase of the Bonton Farms project located in the southeast Dallas neighborhood. The project was the first urban farm Planned Development District approved by the City of Dallas and perhaps one of the only in the State of Texas.
Ann Panopio: has a B.S. in Environmental Design from the University of Houston and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Oregon. She is back as the Associate Director for bcWORKSHOP's Houston office. Currently, she is involved with the City of Houston's Housing and Community Development Department's Disaster Recovery Round 2 program. Her work in the intersection of design and social responsibility ranges in scale from a collaboration on furniture prototypes for children with learning disabilities, affordable, multi-family housing to examining how public transit can be a catalyst to "re-stitch" a neighborhood.
Anna Heringer is an architectural designer from Salzburg, Austria. In 2005-2006 Anna's diploma thesis, a school built from mud and bamboo, came to fruition in Rudrapur, Bangladesh. In 2007-2008 she coordinated students from Bangladesh and Austria to build a vocational school and a pilot project on rural housing in Rudrapur.Anna led the studio BASEhabitat- architecture for development at the University of Arts in Linz, Austria from 2008-2011. She has lectured worldwide and conducted international workshops in Bangladesh and Austria. Since 2010 she has been the honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture Programme. Her work was shown at MoMA in New York, la Loge in Brussels, Cité d`architecture and du patrimoine in Paris, the MAM in Sao Paulo, the Aedes Galery in Berlin and at the Venice Biennale in 2010. She recieved a number of awards such as the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2007), the AR Emerging Architecture Awards (2006 and 2008), the Archprix - Hunter Douglas Award (2006) and most recently the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2011. She is currently a 2011-2012 Harvard Loeb Fellow.
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- Founding Director of Hester Street Collaborative
Anne Frederick, as the founding director of Hester Street Collaborative (HSC), has worked to develop a community design practice that responds to the needs of HSC's local neighborhood of the Lower East Side/Chinatown as well as the needs of under-resourced NYC communities city-wide. Her unique approach to community design integrates education and youth development programming with participatory art, architecture, and planning strategies. This approach is rooted in partnership and collaboration with various community based organizations, schools, and local residents. Prior to founding HSC, Anne worked as an architect at Leroy Street Studio Architecture and as a design educator at Parsons School of Design and the New York Foundation for Architecture.
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- Director of the Center for Sustainable Development
- Director, Center for Sustainable Development, the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
Barbara Brown Wilson is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) and an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Sustainable Design in the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. She has a PhD in Community and Regional Planning and a Masters in Architectural History from UT, and her research interests include value-based building codes, sustainable community development, and green affordable housing. In addition to administering the research, education, and outreach efforts at the CSD generally, Wilson also oversees the Public Interest Design Summer Program and the Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project. She is a co-founder of the Austin Community Design and Development Center, a nonprofit design center that provides high quality green design and planning services to lower income households and the organizations that serve them. Dr. Wilson is passionate about serving her community and recently received the Bank of America Local Hero award for her efforts in Austin.
Bernard J. Canniffe: is Graphic Design Chair at Iowa State University College of Design. He co-founded PIECE STUDIO in 2008 - a collaborative and multidisciplinary social design studio, and is an advisor to the international social collaborative group Project M. He has made presentations at international medical, design, and academic conferences. He is the recipient of the Graphis: Inspiring Designers Award, the Baltimore Step 10 Influential Designers Award, and The Joseph Binder Award. Canniffe holds a BA Honors in Graphic Design from Newport College of Art & Design, University of Wales, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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- Director, Philadelphia Community Design Collaborative
- Executive Director of the Community Design Collaborative
Beth Miller has been executive director of the Community Design Collaborative in Philadelphia, PA, since 2001. She has guided the Collaborative's growth from a single full-time employee to a staff of six, and launched Infill Philadelphia, an initiative that uses design, community engagement, and strategic partnerships to address urban infill development. An unapologetic urban enthusiast, Beth currently serves on Center/Architecture + Design Board and the Plan Philly Advisory Committee. Beth served on the Philadelphia City Planning Commission (2011-2016). She holds a Masters in Government Administration from the Fels School of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in the Growth and Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College.
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- Interim Director for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc
Bomee Jung is Interim Director for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. She leads the New York office, providing management and strategic planning for Enterprise's programmatic initiatives in New York. From 2008 to 2012, Bomee led Enterprise's Green Communities Initiative in New York. She facilitated New York City's adoption of the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria for all new construction and substantial rehabilitation projects receiving city funding and led Enterprise's successful $20 million Weatherization Assistance Program in partnership with LISC, which provided energy efficiency upgrades to more than 2,200 apartments in just 18 months using federal stimulus funding. She led the launch of PartnerPREP, a new model for providing comprehensive technical services, capacity building and capital planning to owners of affordable housing to improve energy performance. Before joining Enterprise in 2008, Bomee founded GreenHomeNYC, a volunteer-driven nonprofit promoting sustainability through green building education and peer-learning. She holds a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and Japanese from the University of Georgia. She serves on the board of Asian Americans for Equality
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- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor of Practice
Bradley Guy is an Associate Professor of Practice, and Director of the MS in Sustainable Design program in the School of Architecture + Planning, The Catholic University of America (CUArch), Washington, DC. He is also the Director of the Center for Building Stewardship and Director of the MS in Facilities Management program. Brad is also a member of the USGBC LEED Social Equity Pilot Credit Working Group and the AIA Materials Knowledge Working Group, and a US representative to the ISO SC59/TC17 Working Group 1: Sustainable building . Brad has a MS in Architectural Studies from the University of Florida, and a B.Arch. from the University of Arizona. He is an Associate of the American Institute of Architects and an USGBC LEEDÆ Accredited Professional BD+C.
Bradley Guy: is an Assistant Professor in the MS in Sustainable Design program, School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America (CUArch) and Associate Director of the Center for Building Stewardship at CUArch. He also teaches at the Yestermorrow Design / Build School. Brad has received The Tides Foundation Environmental Leadership Program and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research Fellowships. He has a M.S.A.S. from the University of Florida, and a B.Arch. from the University of Arizona. He is an Associate of the AIA and an USGBC LEED AP BD+C.
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- Architect
- Founder
- Architect and Founder of BcWORKSHOP
- Founder, Buildingcommunity WORKSHOP, Dallas TX
Brent Brown, AIA, LEED AP, is an architect and founder of buildingcommunity WORKSHOP in Dallas, TX, where his work has been recognized locally and nationally. Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in conjunction with the American Institute for Architects awarded his Congo Street Green Initiative the 2010 National AIA/HUD Secretary Award for "Community-Informed Design." He was named the Director of the newly established Dallas City Design Studio in October 2009. The Studio is an office of the City of Dallas in partnership with the Trinity Trust Foundation and works daily to connect all of Dallas through thoughtful urban design. This past November, Brent represented the southwest region as part of the President's Forum on Clean Energy and Public Health at the White House. Joining Administrator Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department Health & Human Services the forum discussed linkages between clean energy to immediate and lasting public health benefits and the role of community design toward the promotion of healthier lifestyles. He earned his Bachelor of Environmental Design and Master of Architecture from Texas A & M University where he taught design.
Brian Keith, AIA, AICP, LEED AP: is Associate Principal and Director of Urban Design and Planning for JHP. He brings to this position a passion for place-making and the visioning of community redevelopments which emphasize diversity and sustainability. Brian is an advocate for "good urbanism" as defined by the Congress of New Urbanism and endeavors to infuse these planning principles into all his projects and efforts. Brian has over 25 years of extensive mixed-use, urban redevelopment, and master planning experience. Brian has been an integral part of the JHP's success in transitioning the focus of the firm from traditional multifamily markets to a more intensive planning and urban design approach centered around creating community and place. He holds a Master of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture from North Carolina State University.
Britton Jones: is a Landscape Architect at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (GCCDS) in Biloxi, MS. His work focuses on merging social, ecological, and economic systems through community-based design. Britton's expertise are in the realms of environmental restoration and urbanism. Britton fosters public-private relationships with local, regional, and national partners to facilitate and fund projects that improve our communities. His projects include downtown master plans, pedestrian and bicycle suitability planning, watershed planning, wetland restoration and occasionally playful and interactive urban installations.
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- Leader
- Academic Leader
- Co - Founder of SEED
- Design
- Executive Director, Design Corps
- Executive Director, Design Corps, Raleigh NC
- Founder of Design Corps
- Founder of the Public Interest Design Institute
- Introduction and Moderator, PID Education Panel
Bryan Bell is the academic Leader of each session, the founder of Design Corps, the founder of the Public Interest Design Institute, and a co-founder of SEED. Bell has supervised the Structures for Inclusion lecture series for ten years which presents best practices in community-based design. He has published two collections of essays on the topic. Bell has lectured and taught at numerous schools including the Rural Studio with Samuel Mockbee. He has received an AIA National Honor Award in Collaborative Practice. His work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale and the Cooper Hewitt Museum Triennial. He was a Harvard Loeb Fellow in 2010-11 and a co-recipient of the 2011 AIA Latrobe Prize which is focused on public interest design. Other speakers will be national leaders of this emerging field.
Bryan Bell, The Academic Leader of each session is Bryan Bell, the founder of Design Corps, founder of the Public Interest Design Institute, and a co-founder of SEED. Bell has supervised the Structures for Inclusion lecture series for ten years which presents best practices in community-based design. He has published two collections of essays on the topic. Bell has lectured and taught at numerous schools including the Rural Studio with Samuel Mockbee. He has received an AIA National Honor Award in Collaborative Practice. His work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale and the Cooper Hewitt Museum Triennial. He was a Harvard Loeb Fellow in 2010-11 and a co-recipient of the 2011 AIA Latrobe Prize which is focused on public interest design. Other speakers will be national leaders of this emerging field.
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- Engineering Advisor in the Office of Energy and Infrastructure
Bryan Pittman is an Engineering Advisor in the Office of Energy and Infrastructure at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In this role, Bryan is responsible for providing technical leadership and field support for the design, construction, and effective operation and maintenance of infrastructure critical to development. Since joining USAID in 2013, he has served as the manager of USAID's Global Architect-Engineer Services Contracts, the Agency's primary mechanism for providing field Missions with access to infrastructure related technical expertise. Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Pittman was a Developmental Engineer in the U.S. Air Force. He holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Carl Rogers: is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University. He is also a Co-director of the ISU Community Design Lab. Since 2009, Rogers has been working with communities to develop environmentally-sustainable design strategies for the built and physical environment. A core component of his work is developing practice-based research methods through community and professional partnerships to address complex issues of ecological restoration, sustainable storm water management, and conservation of open space networks. He received his Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Kansas State University.
Carlton Eley MSURP, is an environmentalist, urban planner, and civil servant. Possessing an appreciation for environmental justice and sustainable urban policy, he has become an accomplished expert on the topic of equitable development in the public sector. Carlton's work has been commended by the Ford Foundation, the National Charrette Institute, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His technical assistance work has earned citations from the American Planning Association and the National Organization of Minority Architects. Carlton has published multiple articles on the topic of equitable development. He has a B.A. in Sociology/Social Work Curriculum from Elizabeth City State University and a M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa.
Caroline Shannon de Cristo - 2015 SEED Award winner: is Co-founder of +D Studio and Curator of Park and Institute Sitiê, both located in the Favela of Vidigal in Rio de Janeiro, where she is dedicated to integrating the research, design and development of architecture, public policy and technology to improve people's lives. Her previous professional experience includes work at Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, NBBJ, MASS Design Group and MoMA. She received a Master's degree in Architecture with distinction from Harvard, earning the AIA Henry Adams Medal and, together with Pedro de Cristo, the Appleton Fellowship on Architectures of Urban Integration.
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- Principal at Landon Bone Baker Architects
Catherine Baker, AIA: is a Principal at Landon Bone Baker Architects. She received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Ball State University and a Master of Arts in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Both disciplines share some fundamental underpinnings that pertain to the work of LBBA; understanding people and problems, making connections, and developing programmatic solutions. She serves as VP of Advocacy on the Chicago AIA Board of Directors. She is Past-President of the College of Architecture and Planning Alumni Society at Ball State University and also serves as a member of the Department of Architecture Chair's Professional Advisory Committee.
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- Senior Project Manager at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center
Ceara O'Leary: is a Senior Project Manager at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center. She joined DCDC in 2012 as an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow. Previously, Ceara worked as a Community Designer with bcWORKSHOP, setting up an office in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and contributing to a community-based planning project in colonias across Hidalgo and Cameron Counties. From 2010-2011, Ceara was the inaugural Public Design Intern at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she worked on community design and development projects. Ceara graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with Master\'s degrees in Architecture and City & Regional Planning and earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University.
Chapman Todd has 25 years of experience working for non-profit social service agencies in the Washington DC area. Since 2010, he has been consulting on the development of supportive and affordable housing projects, with a particular emphasis on working with faith-based organizations to create apartment units for persons who have been homeless.
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- CEO of Design Center Pittsburgh
Chris Koch: is CEO of Design Center Pittsburgh, a regional non-profit with a 47-year history of providing design and planning resources to communities with a focus on equity, livability, and sustainability. She is an expert in community development, urban planning, and social innovation. Chris was previously Co-founder and COO of GTECH Strategies, a non-profit dedicated to sustainable community development strategies. Chris was named an Echoing Green Fellow in global social enterprise, and awarded a "Women Greening Pittsburgh" award in 2011. She holds a Masters of Public Policy and Management, and a B.S. in History from Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University.
Christina Hoxie (AICP): is currently an architectural designer and urban planner at BNIM. Her primary focus is on stimulating vibrant community relationships informed by a systems-based approach. Her sustainable community planning projects range from Greening the Overflow Control Plan (KCMO, 2008-09) to the Greater Downtown Area Plan (KCMO, adopted March 2010) and assisting the Oglala Lakota people of South Dakota to win federal funding for sustainable community planning. She is also a board member of the Lawrence Percolator, which is a community-based arts non-profit organization. She feels passionately that stimulating involvement in the arts is an important part of building a sustainable, tightly-knit, engaged and thoughtful community. Christina earned her Masters of Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Kansas.
Claire Weisz: is an architect and urban designer. She is a founding principal of WXY, an award-winning practice whose work focuses on innovative approaches to public space, buildings, and cities. Recent work includes HUD's Rebuild by Design Competition, The Brooklyn Tech Triangle a study of Brooklyn's growing tech culture, The East River Blueway, Rockaway Boardwalk's reconstruction post Sandy and the Queensway. Claire teaches at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and Cornell University. A frequent speaker and panelist on resiliency and design she is a Fellow of the AIA and received a professional degree in Architecture from The University of Toronto (Hon) and her Masters in Architecture from Yale University.
Courtney Spearman: is a Landscape Architect and Architectural Historian by training. She joined the National Endowment for the Arts as Design Specialist in May 2014, managing the Art Works grant program to support the field of design and design projects nationwide. Courtney came to the NEA after working for The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a DC-based non-profit (and NEA grantee) focused on raising awareness about significant and historic design landscapes. She has also worked in practice at EDAW/AECOM in Alexandria, VA. She has a Master's degrees in Landscape Architecture and Architectural History from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor's degree in History and Art and Art History from Rice University.
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- Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University
- Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture
Dan Pitera is the Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. With the view that "design" is an essential force in establishing human relations, the Design Center is dedicated to fostering university and community partnerships that create inspired and sustainable neighborhoods and spaces for all people. The Design Center provides not only design services but also empowers residents to facilitate their own process of urban regeneration. Dan was a 2004-2005 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. He was a finalist for both the 2008-2009 Rafael Vinoly Architects Grants in Architecture and the 2006-2007 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City. Under his direction since 2000, the Design Center was included in the US Pavilion of the 2008 Venice Biennale in Architecture and recently was awarded the 2009 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Design Excellence for the St.Joseph Rebuild Center in New Orleans. The Design Center was the recipient of the NCARB Prize in 2002 and 2009 and was included in the international exhibit/conference ArchiLab in 2001 and 2004 in Orleans, France. The Design Center has also been the awarded the 2002 Dedalo Minosse International Prize. In 1998, Dan was the Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska. He has lectured and taught extensively throughout the North America, South America, and Europe.
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- Is Director of Community Development at HIS BridgeBuilders. Watch Daron 's Story Here.
Daron Babcock: is Director of Community Development at HIS BridgeBuilders. Watch Daron's story here.
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- Head, School of Architecture, NCSU CoD
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- Architect
- Associate
- Associate Professor, Mississippi State University, Biloxi
David Perkes is an architect and Associate Professor for Mississippi State University. He is the founding director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, a professional outreach program of the College of Architecture, Art + Design. The design studio was established soon after Hurricane Katrina and is providing planning and architectural design support to many Mississippi Gulf Coast communities and non-profit organizations. The design studio works in close partnership with the East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center and has assisted in the renovation of hundreds of damaged homes and over fifty new house projects in East Biloxi. The Biloxi house projects were awarded an Honor Citation from the Gulf States Region AIA in 2007. Before creating the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, David was the director of the Jackson Community Design Center and taught in the School of Architecture's fifth year program in Jackson, Mississippi for seven years. Under his leadership the Jackson Community Design Center assisted many community organizations and received numerous national and local awards, including a Mississippi AIA Honor Award for the Boys and Girls Club Camp Pavilion. A sustainable Habitat for Humanity house built in Jackson was selected by the "Show Your Green" recognition program and featured on the AIA Design Advisor. David was selected as the designer from Mississippi in January 2004 issue of International Design in which a designer is featured from each state. David has a Master of Environmental Design degree from Yale School of Architecture, a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Utah, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. In 2004 David was awarded a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Deborah Gans is the founder and principal architect of Gans studio, a small firm in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, and Director of Research, Professor, and former Chair of the Undergraduate School of Architecture at Pratt Institute. Her firm's projects include architecture, industrial design, and community-based urban planning, where she frequently tackles extreme sites and programs. Deborah has spent her career seeking new forms for architecture's social participation and engagement. Much of her design work focuses on the challenges of housing, especially in relation to the underserved, where she has used her design speculation as a platform for policy change and the revitalization of communities. Deborah writes for both scholarly and popular publications and serves as Board Member for PLACES/Design Observer and the Institute for Public Architecture.
DK Osseo-Asare is a designer who makes buildings, landscapes, cities, objects, and digital tools. He is co-founder and principal of Low Design Office (LOWDO), an architecture and integrated design studio based in Austin, Texas and Tema, Ghana, and design lecturer in engineering at Ashesi University, where he helps run the Ashesi Design Lab (D:lab). DK is a TED Global Fellow, Fulbright Scholar and received A.B. in Engineering Design and M.Arch. degrees from Harvard University for work in kinetic systems and network power. His research spans design innovation, open-source urbanism, digital fabrication and architecture robots. He led urban design for Koumbi City and Anam City new town projects in Ghana and Nigeria, and is co-founder of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), winner of the Rockefeller Foundation's Centennial Innovation Challenge and 2017 SEED award for public interest design, for which he is the Africa 4 Tech Digital Champion for #Edtech.
Eike Roswag-Klinge is the founder and partner of the firm Roswag Architekten in Berlin. http://www.zrs-berlin.de/. Through wide ranging discourse within communities and among experts Roswag Architekten considers, discusses and realizes global Architecture that strives to promote the use local natural resources. These materials facilitate the creation of comfortable and healthy dwellings that allow us to live in better harmony with nature. Through focused project work and selected competition entries combined with ongoing professional and team development, Roswag Architekten aims to use our growing knowledge and experiences to create a series of new dynamic solutions for the complex questions posed by an ever-evolving built environment. Focused, consequent projects, developed for the end user, lead to a high degree of acceptance and a long lasting satisfaction for all parties involved. Mr. Klinge-Roswag is the winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007 for the School in Rudrapur. The firm has also won the Holcim Award Gold in 2011. Mr Roswag-Kilnge has received the AR Awards for Emeging Architecture 2006 and a Fellowship from Villa Massimo, Rome, in 2013.
Elaine Morales: is a Design Associate at bcWORKSHOP. She leads the design and construction work for RAPIDO disaster recovery housing pilot program and supports other housing projects within the RGV office. She has particular interest in community development in post-conflict and post-disaster contexts, and how communities design their environments. She obtained a Bachelor of Environmental Design, a MArch and an Urban Studies Certificate from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), and a Master of International Cooperation from the International University of Catalunya (UIC) in Barcelona, Spain. She was previously involved with Architecture for Humanity (AFH) in Brazil, and worked as a research and needs assessment intern for the Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation branch of UN-HABITAT in Kenya.
Elaine Moralez is a Design Associate at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP [bc] in Houston, TX. She led the Rapid Disaster Recovery Housing Pilot Program (RAPIDO) and supports other projects, policy, and community capacity initiatives. Elaine led the Brownsville City Design Studio yearly programs, headed the launch of the Public Interest Design Initiative (PDII) in the RGV, and worked directly with Community Organizers and leaders in the development of the LUCHA library. Her interests include community development in post-conflict and post-disaster contexts. Elaine obtained a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Master of Architecture from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master of International Cooperation from the International University of Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. She also has a Post-bachelor Certificate in Urban Studies from the UPR.
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- Director of Doctor of Design Program, NCSU CoD
Emilie Taylor, as Design Build Manager at the Tulane City Center, works to coordinate the people, designs, and materials of the TCC's built projects. Emilie's recent community design build studio projects include the Storypod, and Project Ish at Hagar's House. The current design build project, a 4 acre youth farm known as Grow Dat, is the City Center's most ambitious project yet. Emilie is a part of the founding team that established the URBANbuild program at Tulane University and was the project manager for the first four houses. Emilie's education includes a technical building background at the University of Southern Mississippi followed by a Masters Degree in Architecture at Tulane. She is actively involved in university design|build and advocates for the engagement of such programs with the local community. Emilie's creative practice includes a documentary film on self taught builders and exploring the intersection between formal and informal architectural practice.
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- Director of Integrative Research
Emily McCoy is the Director of Integrative Research and an Associate Landscape Architect at the ecological planning and landscape architectural firm Andropogon Associates. Emily's passions are rooted in both design and understanding
of the natural world, which is reflected in her past educational and professional experiences in design, ecology, and horticulture. Mrs. McCoy shares her enthusiasm and love of design and the natural world to her students and strives to contribute to the knowledge base of landscape architecture by exploring the interplay between professional practice and research. Emily holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University; a Bachelor of Science in Ecology from Appalachian State University. Emily serves on the Landscape Architecture Foundation's Education Committee and the Advisory Board for the Landscape
Emily Pilloton founded the nonprofit design firm Project H to use creative capital to improve communities and public education from the inside out in January 2008. Project H's local initiatives range from small local interventions (water collection and reuse, architectural schemes for foster care facilities, craft-based homeless enterprises) to deep engagements in the public education system.Emily was named one of Fast Company's Masters of Design, has spoken on the TED stage and appeared on The Colbert Report . She is the author of Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People, which was publicized by means of an unconventional book tour in which Pilloton visited 35 towns in 75 days to promote design for good, while traveling a 1972 Airstream filled with 40 of the 100 products.Emily holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of California Berkeley, and a Master of Product Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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- Director of Community and Economic Development at Salt Lake City Corporation
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- President of Urban Strategies, Inc
Esther Shin is President of Urban Strategies, Inc. She leads a team of professionals with expertise in human capital and economic development to help people in communities across the United States. Esther has led or supported nine Choice Neighborhood Implementation grants, amounting to more than $270 million in federal resources, which has leveraged more than $3 billion in additional investments. In 2016 Esther was selected by the Annie E. Casey Foundation for their Children and Family Fellowship. The Fellowship works to increase the pool of leaders with the vision and ability to frame and sustain major system reforms and community capacity-building initiatives that benefit large numbers of children and families. Esther holds a Master's Degree from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and Bachelor's Degrees in Political Science and English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis.
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- Deputy Director at the J. Max Bond Center
Esther Yang is the Deputy Director at the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City within the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Her career has focused on housing and community development and has roots in Baltimore, Virginia, Arkansas, and New York, including a consulting practice with housing development, sustainability, and finance organizations to monitor housing construction and property operations. Her achievements include an award for Design Excellence from the University of Virginia, a 3-year term as an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow, authored a national building performance certification workbook for Enterprise Community Partners, and participation with the United Nations as delegate at The People's World Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Her work credits in three publications [Good Deeds Good Design (2004); Design Like You Give A Damn (2006), Bridging the Gap: Architectural Internships in Public Service (2011)], a 2012 ASLA collaborative design award with Robin Key Landscape Architects. Esther is a member of the SEED Network where she is involved in evaluating and advocating social justice metrics within design and development.
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- Co - Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
Gail Vittori, LEED AP, is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit design firm established in 1975 dedicated to sustainable planning, design and demonstration where she has worked since 1979. She was 2009 Chair of the US Green Building Council's Board of Directors and currently serves on Board of the Green Building Certification Institute. Since 1993, Ms. Vittori has coordinated the Center's Sustainable Design in Public Buildings Program, including serving as a Sustainable Design Consultant for the Pentagon Renovation Program's Commissioning Team from 1999 to 2006, numerous City of Austin design projects including Texas' first public sector LEED® certified building, the redevelopment of the 709-acre former Austin airport including piloting LEED for Neighborhood Development, the new Austin Federal Courthouse with Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, and the first LEED-Platinum certified hospital in the world, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. Since 2000, Ms. Vittori has been a catalyst for several national initiatives focused on greening the health care sector and advancing environmental health considerations in green building. She currently serves as a Co-Coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care and is Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Healthcare core committee (2004-2008).Ms. Vittori was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design from 1998- 1999, and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied economics. Ms. Vittori is on the advisory boards of Natural Home magazine and Environmental Building News. She is co-author, with Robin Guenther FAIA, of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, published by Wiley and Sons in 2008, was featured as an Innovator: Building a Greener World in TIME Magazine in March 2007 and, with Pliny Fisk III, in Texas Monthly's 35th year anniversary issue (February 2008) in the article ‘35 People Who Will Shape Our Future'. In 2009, Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed Ms. Vittori to the Department of Homeland Security's Sustainability and Efficiency Task Force.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Managing Principal
- Executive Director of Inscape Publico
- Managing Principal, Inscape Studio
Gregory Kearley: is the Executive Director of Inscape Publico. In founding Inscape Studio, it was not Greg's intention to create a singular stylistic approach to architecture, but to put into place the framework for a collective design process. Design for the public good was always part of Greg's mindset, and throughout his career, he has been involved in many projects with nonprofits. Instead of running a design firm that completes one pro-bono project per year, he wanted to have a separate nonprofit firm dedicated to working with other nonprofits, which led to the formation of Inscape Publico.
Greg Kearley, AIA, LEED AP, Managing Principal, Inscape Studio, Executive Director, Inscape Publico. Greg established Inscape Studio in 1998. In shaping Inscape Studio it was not Greg's intention to create a singular stylistic approach to architecture, but to put into place a framework for a collective design process. Greg co-founded Project 4, a contemporary art gallery, in 2006 with three colleagues. During the nine years it was open, Project 4 exhibited works of emerging and mid-career artists. The space, designed by Inscape Studio, provided a platform for showcasing a variety of media, including installation, video, painting, sculpture, and site specific works. In 2010 Greg co-founded Inscape Publico, a nonprofit architecture firm. The mission of Inscape Publico is to provide professional architecture services to other non-profits so that they can further their missions in the spaces created by Inscape Publico.
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- Designer at MHTN Architects
Hannah Vaughn is a young designer at MHTN Architects, in Salt Lake City, UT. Hannah was educated in philosophy at the University of New Mexico and at the Universite de Savoie, and received her Master of Architecture from the University of Utah. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for AIA Utah, is an active participant in the AIA Utah YAF. Hannah regularly participates in design critiques, workshops, and competitions, and is intent on advancing mindful, artful development of the built environment. She is committed to interventions that are informed by community dialogue and positively affect the perception of users. She is honored to be part of the realization of the VOA Youth Center - a project that demands human sensitivity and thoughtful design.
Heather Fleming is a designer, an engineer, and an entrepreneur motivated by social inequality. In 2005, she led a volunteer group of engineers and designers focused on humanitarian design projects via a professional chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB). Three years later she co-founded Catapult Design in San Francisco to make design and technical capacity accessible to entrepreneurs and organizations working within disadvantaged communities. Heather is a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow, a program aimed at high-potential young leaders with new approaches for transformational impact and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She previously worked in the Silicon Valley product development consulting world and has nine years of experience working with multi-disciplinary teams to design, develop, and deliver product solutions for a diverse range of companies. Heather was also previously an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineering department and a Senior Lecturer at California College of the Arts in the Industrial Design department. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Navajo Chamber of Commerce on the Navajo Nation and chairs a committee within ASME's Engineering for Global Development initiative. Heather has a BS in Product Design from Stanford University.
Job Titles:
- Planning and Design Associate
Hugo Colón: is a Planning and Design Associate at bcWORKSHOP. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico where he received a Bachelor Degree in Environmental Design and a Master Degree in Architecture from the University of Puerto Rico. He pursued a second Master degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, from which he graduated in 2013. Hugo has managed the Colonias Public Space & Storm-water Low Impact Development which seeks to empower residents to advocate for drainage systems that best fit their needs. Hugo is also working with the RGV Transport projects, and contributing to the LUCHA and Casitas Los Olmos projects in the Rio Grande Valley.
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- Program Manager at the Center for Urban Pedagogy
Ingrid Haftel: is a Program Manager at the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a Brooklyn-based non-profit that uses design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. At CUP, Ingrid works on Community Education programs, managing collaborations with advocacy groups and visual thinkers to create visual tools that break down complex policy issues. Before joining CUP, she was Curator of Exhibitions at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago's leading forum for the exchange of ideas on urban design. There, Ingrid developed major public exhibitions that helped public audiences think critically about complex issues related to urban planning and architecture. Ingrid received her B.A. in English and Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington, and her M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago.
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- Founder of the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative
Jamie Blosser founded the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative (SNCC) to research and develop best practices promoting cultural and environmental sustainability in tribal and rural communities. The SNCC, an initiative of Enterprise Community Partners, is a research and technical assistance arm to her architectural practice as an Associate at Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, where she oversees the firm's housing, tribal and sustainable development projects. Jamie's work is rooted in community design. As an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow from 2000-2003, her project received the Harvard University's Honoring Nations award and EPA Smart Growth Award for Small Communities. The SNCC received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to document five tribal sustainability projects in the Southwest, including a green design guideline for the Navajo Housing Authority. Jamie is an on the Advisory Group for the AIA Residential Knowledge Community and received her Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been selected for inclusion in Design Re-Imagined: New Architecture on Indigenous Land, a book on contemporary Native American architecture.
Jane Anderson is Programme Lead for Undergraduate Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. She has worked as an architect in Germany and the UK. She is a National Teaching Fellow. Her research concerns the pedagogy of live (design build) projects in architecture. Jane is co-founder of the Live Projects Network, an international online resource to connect students, academics and communities involved in live projects. Jane also directs OB1 LIVE, a programme of live projects designed and implemented by architecture students for the local community. Her recent co-edited book is titled "InHabit: People, Places and Possessions" (2016, Oxford: Peter Lang).
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- Deputy Director, Crescent City Community Land Trust
Jenga Mwendo, Deputy Director, Crescent City Community Land Trust. Jenga works to secure permanently affordable housing and commercial development in New Orleans. Mwendo is also the founder of the Backyard Gardeners Network and has worked since 2007 to strengthen the Lower Ninth Ward community. Mwendo has also worked with the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development to lead a Food Action Planning initiative, and Tulane City Center as a Community Organizer. Jenga is a graduate of the Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development (MSRED) at Tulane University and a graduate of the Southern University Agricultural Leadership Institute.
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- Executive Director at the Neighborhood Design Center
Jennifer Goold: is the Executive Director at the Neighborhood Design Center (NDC) and directs all aspects of the center's operations including staff, programs, outreach, and fundraising. She joined NDC in 2012 after more than a decade of work in cultural resources management, historic preservation, tax credit consulting, real estate development, and transportation planning. The Neighborhood Design Center, founded in 1968, provides pro-bono design assistance in support of community projects in Baltimore City and Prince George's County. A Baltimore resident since 1993, she has been involved in many of the city's largest historic building rehabilitations, including the American Can Company, Silo Point, Tide Point (now the Under Armour headquarters), and Clipper Mill. She received a BS in Interior Design from Indiana University and an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University.
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- Project Manager With BNIM
Jeremy Knoll, Project Manager with BNIM. Jeremy has served as the prime sustainability and LEED consultant on dozens projects world-wide, and serves as a volunteer leader for both the US Green Building Council and the not-for-profit organization he co-founded, Historic Green. Jeremy and his colleagues at BNIM recently completed the Bancroft School Apartments, a SEED Award winning Kansas City development of 50 LEED Platinum affordable apartment units with a large community-center. Jeremy has been a LEED advisor to KU's Studio 804 (design-build) class since 2007, helping each class to build LEED Platinum buildings - including the first LEED Platinum certified building in Kansas, the first Passive House in Kansas, and the first Living Building in Kansas.
Jeremy Knoll, LEED-AP (BD+C), a Project Architect with BNIM Architects and Co-Founder and Chairman of Historic Green, has a deep passion for exploring the intersection of sustainable design, cultural heritage, and social equity in both his volunteer and professional work. He is currently leading the design and construction of the Bancroft School Apartments project, has been theprimary sustainability and LEED consultant on dozens projects world-wide, andserves as a volunteer leader for both the US Green Building Council and Historic Green.
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- Executive Director of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership
Jess Zimbabwe: is the Executive Director of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The mission of the Daniel Rose Center is to achieve and support excellence in land use decision making. Previously, Jess was the Director of the Mayors' Institute on City Design and served as the Community Design Director at Urban Ecology, providing pro bono community planning and design assistance to low-income neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jess is a licensed architect, certified city planner, and a LEED-Accredited professional. She earned a Master of Architecture and Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Architecture from Columbia University.
Jesse Miller: is a Design Associate at bcWORKSHOP. He works in the RGV office and focuses on housing design through the sustainABLEhouse initiative, the Rapido program, and multifamily developments. Jesse finds tremendous value in how [bc]'s work is always evolving and learning from itself while teaming up with different partners and communities on various projects. He was previously a Public Design Intern at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, MS. Jesse earned a B.S. in Architecture and a Master of Architecture at Ball State University. While in graduate school, Jesse studied at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico working on his thesis titled "Between Tradition and Dissent: Learning From and Working With Ignored Communities."
Jill Kurtz earned her B Arch from Kansas State University and began a traditional architecture path. But she had a change in direction after she spent a year in India as a volunteer designer with eMi where she designed schools, hospitals, community shelters and orphan homes. She quickly realized true sustainability is not a trendy gimmick but a strategy survival in the developing world and in response, moved to San Francisco where to focus on developing sustainability strategies and founded reBuild Consulting, a green building firm committed to providing affordable LEED and sustainability advising. Currently, she also serves as graduate faculty at Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning, & Design where she teaches an interdisciplinary class on Public Interest Design. Since 2008, Jill has been involved in Rebuild Sudan and serves as Board President and team lead for the school project. She now works remotely on these initiatives from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband, Preston.
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- Co - Founder and Principal of METALAB
Joe Meppelink: is co-founder and principal of METALAB, an architecture and product design firm in Houston, Texas. Joe's desire is to design via constructive interplay between the often disparate camps of architecture-design-technology and construction-fabrication-manufacturing or more simply put, the head and the hands. Joe previously operated METALAB as an architectural metal fabricating shop. This shop fabricated dozens of projects in the Houston area and began steadily employing digital fabrication technologies in 1998. He is also a Partner at Janusz Design: a residential practice in Houston.
Joel Fuoss, AIA, has spent 14 of the last 16 years in a variety of roles at Trivers Associates. In his role as Principal, he provides design oversight on all firm projects. Joel has been involved in some of the firm's most visible projects, including the Flance Early Learning Center, the Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park, and the Art & Design Building Expansion and Renovation at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He has spent time as an instructor and a visiting critic at Washington University's Sam Fox School of Architecture. Joel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Master of Architecture degree from Washington University.
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- Senior Director of the American Institute of Architects
Joel Mills is Senior Director of the American Institute of Architects' Center for Communities by Design. Center programs have catalyzed billions of dollars in sustainable development across the country, helping to create some of the most vibrant places in America today. Joel's 24-year career has been focused on strengthening democracy, civic capacity and civic institutions around the world. This work has helped millions of people participate in democratic processes, visioning efforts, and community planning initiatives. He has delivered lectures, presentations and interactive workshops for dozens of audiences across 5 continents. In the United States, Joel has worked with over 100 communities, leading participatory processes that facilitated community-generated strategies for success.
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- Executive Director of AIA New Orleans
Joel Pominville, Executive Director of AIA New Orleans & the New Orleans Architecture Foundation. Joel brings a wide array of experience and innovation within the organizational structure of architectural education, practice, and regulation. A designer, leader and advocate, Joel places community and people at the core of his work. Throughout his study at Clemson University School of Architecture and College of Business and Behavioral Science, his practice in the field of architecture and his multiple roles within organizational leadership, Joel has developed sensitivity to the importance of the designer's role in their communities.
John Cruz is an urban planner who currently works for the non-profit community development organization Rise. As the Data Management Coordinator, John uses mapping data, geospatial data, and census data to tell a visual story of what is happening with land use in the St. Louis region while tracking neighborhood change over time. He assists community partner organizations to interpret and utilize data in a way that can positively impact their service areas. He also provides technical assistance and consulting services to non-profits and local government, while also working on community planning efforts. John holds an undergraduate degree in web development from Baker College and a graduate degree in urban planning from Wayne State University, both in Michigan.
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- Founder and Director of the Urban Design Build Studio
John Folan: is Founder and Director of the Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS), a university-affiliated Public Interest Design entity at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2008, John and the UDBS have been working with challenged urban communities in Western Pennsylvania on the development and implementation of catalytic projects through participatory design processes. John maintains a private professional practice focused on social, economic, and environmental issues in architecture and urban design.
John Folan is the T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor of Architecture, Founder and Director of the Urban Design Build Studio (UDBS), track Chair of the Masters of Urban Design (MUD) Program, and member of the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) at Carnegie Mellon University. Since joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in the fall of 2009, John and the UDBS have been working with challenged urban communities in Allegheny County on the development and implementation of catalytic projects through participatory design processes. The work has been recognized with the 2010 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award and the 2011 AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award. The work in Pittsburgh represents an extension of efforts in university affiliated community based design and construction, initiated while John was tenured faculty member at the University of Arizona.In Tucson, Arizona John co-founded, co-directed, and served as an executive board member of the Drachman Design Build Coalition (DDBC); a university affiliated, non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to the design and construction of environmentally specific, energy efficient, affordable housing prototypes. Projects with the DDBC implemented in Tucson's Urban Empowerment Zone have been recognized with three consecutive AIA Arizona Honor Awards for Residence of The Year and the 2011 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award. Urban strategies employed in the implementation of the DDBC work influenced the collaborative development of the Drachman Institute's legislative proposal for regionally specific sustainability guidelines. The work was recognized with first place award in the 2008 National Urban Policy Initiative Competition (NUPIC).
John Henneberger, 2014 MacArthur Fellow: is an advocate for fair and affordable housing who has created a new paradigm for post-disaster rebuilding. Skilled at identifying points of agreement among parties with varying, often opposing, economic interests and political views-such as developers, elected officials, and community members-Henneberger was an architect of a conciliation agreement with the State of Texas for Hurricanes Dolly and Ike post-disaster rebuilding. This agreement has helped to restore equity in disaster assistance for persons with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, and expanded low-income residents' involvement in disaster re-building.
John M. Wallace Jr., Ph.D: holds the Philip Hallen Chair in Community Health and Social Justice at the University of Pittsburgh and is the senior pastor of Bible Center Church, in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood. To date, Bible Center has purchased, rehabilitated, and productively re-used more than two-dozen vacant parcels and abandoned properties in Homewood. Dr. Wallace and Bible Center are currently working with CMU's John Folan on the adaptive reuse of a former Rite Aid Pharmacy that was vacant for over a decade. Dr. Wallace earned his PhD and Masters degrees from the University of Michigan and his AB from the University of Chicago.
Jonathan Rollins: leads the education segment of the practice at GFF Architects, focusing on university projects, independent schools, and communities of faith, with an additional emphasis on historic preservation and adaptive reuse. He combines a detailed and creative approach to solving complex programming and design problems with expertise in building technology and the construction process. He has completed several projects in Dallas' historic Fair Park, including rehabilitation of the Food & Fiber and Embarcadero buildings. Mr. Rollins received an AB from Princeton University, and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Joseph Minicozzi, AICP is the principal of Urban3, LLC (U3), a consulting company of downtown Asheville real estate developer Public Interest Projects. Prior to creating U3, he served as the Executive Director for the Asheville Downtown Association. Before moving to Asheville, he was the primary administrator of the Form Based Code for downtown West Palm Beach, FL. Joe's cross-training in city planning in the public and private sectors, as well as private sector real estate finance has allowed him to develop award-winning analytic tools that have garnered national attention in Planetizen, The Wall Street Journal, Planning Magazine, The New Urban News, National Association of Realtors, Atlantic Cities, and the Center for Clean Air Policy's Growing Wealthier report. Joe is a founding member of the Asheville Design Center, a non-profit community design center dedicated to creating livable communities across all of Western North Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from University of Miami and Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University.
Katherine Darnstadt, AIA, LEED AP bd+c, NCARB: is Founder and Principal of Latent Design, a collaborative of individuals whose projects focus on social, economic, and environmental impact. Katherine is an architect and educator who uses design to make the invisible forces impacting a project visible through architecture. Her firm pro-actively engages in community-based participatory design. She received a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Katie Swenson has directed Enterprise's Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship since 2006 which brings first-rate design and green building assistance to community development organizations around the country. Prior to joining Enterprise, Katie was founder and executive director of the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC) in Virginia. In 2009, Katie published "Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model," co-authored with William Morrish and Susanne Schindler. Other works include "Louisiana Speaks Pattern Book: Green Building Guidelines;" "Growing Urban Habitats," an essay in "Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism;" and two chapters in the forthcoming "Activist Architecture: Philosophy and Practice of the Community Design Center." Her work has been cited in trade and popular publications, including Metropolis, Metropolitan Home, Architecture, L'Architecture Au'Jourdhui and Family Circle.Katie's awards include the EPA Energy Star Award, the Eldon Field Woods Design Professional of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Environmental Leadership Award and the Sara McArthur Nix Fellowship for Travel and Research in France.She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her master's in architecture from the University of Virginia.
Keir Johnston studied fine art at California State University at Northridge, and painted his first mural at the age of 18. He found the immense standing of the social impact and the profound community involvement an ideal way to express to a broader-reaching audience. Becoming an advocate on many social issues and community groups, he has worked collaboratively in the production of murals with life inmates at state penitentiaries, elderly, college students, youth in detention centers, elementary and high school students, mentally and physically disabled, and the general public through teaching workshops.
Kim Douglas received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation, she joined Olin Partnership where she worked as the lead designer on several award winning projects, including the LEED certified Winter Garden and Plaza at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Kim joined Philadelphia University in 2009 as full time faculty in the department of Landscape Architecture where she is currently the Director of the program. She holds the Anton Germinshuzen Stantec Term Chair, which funds her research on the effects of contact with nature on children. Kim is committed to confronting ecological as well as cultural and social issues that affect urban neighborhoods, particularly those in need of revitalization.
Laura Clayton, LEED AP BD+C, SEED is a licensing architect at Architectural Nexus and the first SEED certified consultant in the State of Utah. Laura holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Utah and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University. She is an active member of the Utah AIA and USGBC and co-chair of the 21st & 21st Business District, as well as co-founder and acting board member of Common Studio, a non-profit organization that advocates design for under-served populations. Laura has played an innovative role in community engagement and launched an outreach effort to encourage dialogue between citizens groups and design professionals. Upon receiving SEED training and certification, Laura has incorporated this process into her work, including an SDAT for Tremonton, Utah, the Glendale Public Library in Salt Lake City, and a public parklet for the 21st & 21st area in Sugarhouse. Laura believes that social, economic, and cultural concerns must be an integral part of the larger sustainability movement and advocates that sustainable building address environmental and social issues integrally.
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- Principal and Co - Founder of SITELAB Urban Studio
Laura Crescimano: is Principal and co-founder of SITELAB urban studio, a San Francisco-based strategic design firm focused on using research & visualization to create great places through big plans and small interventions. Laura's work investigates the social and political power of space. Her projects range from the 5M Project, a four-acre mixed-use development in San Francisco, to a 300-pixel infographic for the non-profit Destination Home. She has written and lectured on temporary urbanism, design entrepreneurism and the urban impacts of the workplace. She currently teaches on Design and Activism at UC Berkeley. Laura earned her Masters of Architecture from Harvard.
Laura Eder, AIA LEED AP GGP: is an architect at GFF Architects. Joining the firm in 2010, Laura has extensive experience in multi-family projects such as Fiori on Vitruvian Park and 3700M West Village. In addition, she manages the firm's LEED and Green Globes certifications. She also uses her leadership skills to manage clients as well as consultants at GFF. Laura graduated in 2010 with a Masters of Architecture from the University of Kansas and became a licensed architect in June 2013. She is an active member in the Dallas AIA, The Real Estate Council (TREC), and is currently involved in the AIA Emerging Leaders Program.
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- Associate Principal, Bruner / Cott Associates, Cambridge
Leslie Kaye, PhD: is a clinical, health, and design Psychologist, licensed in Florida and Michigan. She was a two-year Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed her Clinical Internship in French and English at McGill University's Montreal General Hospital, and her Doctorate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Southern California. She has consulted globally and to the UN in Kabul, Afghanistan, co-facilitating the strategic planning meeting for 50 UN Executives. Dr. Kaye is SEED certified, preserving the historic 1850 Cadiuex Farmhouse in Grosse Pointe, Michigan under Public Interest Design principles.
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- Communication Design Program Coordinator at the Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Professor and Coordinator of the Communication Design
- Professor of Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Lisa Abendroth: is a Professor and the Communication Design Program Coordinator at the Metropolitan State University of Denver where her research focuses on issues of social equity toward marginalized audiences. Working across diverse disciplines, she practices, evaluates, and writes about design that addresses under-served people, places and problems. She is a founding member of the SEED Network and a co-author of the SEED Evaluator tool. Abendroth is a 2013 recipient of the SEED Award for Leadership in Public Interest Design. Along with Bryan Bell, Abendroth is a co-editor of the forthcoming book, Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues (Routledge, 2015).
Joongsub Kim, PhD, AIA, AICP: is a Pro fessor at Lawrence Technological University (LTU), directs its Detroit Studio and Urban Design Program. After graduating from MIT and the University of Michigan, he focused on public interest design, and has received an ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award; a Boston Society of Architects National Research Grant; an ACSA Collaborative Practice Award Citation; a Graham Foundation Advanced Studies Grant; an NCARB Integration of Practice and Education National Grant; and an AIA Michigan President's Award for "outstanding contributions to the advancement of the built environment." His work has been published in Urban Design International, Journal of Urban Design, Places, Environment & Behavior, Architectural Record, and Architect.
Lisa M. Abendroth is a Professor and Coordinator of the Communication Design program at the Metropolitan State University of Denver where her research embodies community-centered design focused on issues of social equity towards marginalized audiences. Working across the diverse disciplines of design, her activities include writing and critically assessing design that seeks to address under-served people, places and problems. Lisa believes design must be accountable-she demonstrated this in the critically acclaimed exhibition, "Substance: Diverse Practices from the Periphery", which she organized and curated. She is a founding member and regular contributor to the national design network, SEED®: Social Economic Environmental Design where she is a coauthor of the SEED Evaluator design assessment tool. An expert on community-centered design practices, she lectures and presents the SEED Evaluator, its methodology and case studies in diverse educational contexts including the Public Interest Design Institute. With a passion for collaboration, Lisa promotes projects supporting culture and community through her firm culture/language/dialogue. She has lectured, presented, exhibited, and published nationally and internationally on research related to public interest design.
Lisa Mitchell-Bennett: is a community organizer, journalist, and health educator. She is currently a Senior Research Associate/Project Manager for the Tu Salud ¡Si Cuenta! Campaign (UT School of Public Health). Lisa was born in Mexico City, and has lived and worked in Latin America and Europe. She studied political science at the University of California and has Masters' degrees in International Development and Public Health. She arrived in Brownsville 20 years ago to work with refugees and fell in love with the historic border town. Lisa's work promote healthy, active living through environmental and policy change, community health workers, and media to prevent and control obesity and related chronic conditions.
Marc Norman is the Director of Upstate: A Center for Design, Research and Real Estate and a Professor of Practice at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. UPSTATE works in partnership to foster innovative approaches to the making and remaking of cities to demonstrate how design, policy and finance can enrich our collective quality of life. Previously he was a Vice President at Deutsche Bank in its Community Development Finance Group. With a Master's degree in Urban Planning from U.C.L.A., Mr. Norman has over 15 years of experience in the field of affordable housing development and finance. Having worked for both for-profit and non-profit developers, investors and lenders, Mr. Norman has seen community development from many angles. Prior to Deutsche Bank he was a Managing Director at Duvernay Brooks, a real estate development and consulting firm in New York City specializing in helping governmental agencies and private developers execute mixed income, mixed use urban revitalization. Mr. Norman serves and multiple boards and has lectured on real estate development and public private collaborations at numerous conferences and Universities.
Margarette Leite teaches architectural design and building tectonics at Portland State University. Her pedagogical mission is to provide opportunities for students to engage in design processes and design/build activities that serve communities in need. These initiatives have garnered awards for civic engagement and have been the subjects of numerous publications and documentaries. Her work with students includes projects with local school districts for the design of sustainable learning spaces as well as a current statewide initiative to build and distribute a greener, affordable modular classroom across Oregon and the nation. The SAGE Classroom was awarded an international SEED award in 2012. Her tectonics classes focus on the responsible use of sustainable and reusable materials as well as the promotion of hands-on making as a life-long habit for students of architecture. In addition, she is a partner in PLDP Architecture, a firm that designs and promotes sustainable buildings and communities with particular emphasis on disaster relief.
Marie Anna Lee is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of the Pacific whose research focuses on multi-disciplinary collaboration, community-based design and cultural preservation.. Previously, she taught Communication Design at Metropolitan State College of Denver (2005-07) and art and design at School of Creative Media (SCM), City University of Hong Kong (2007-09). While At SCM, Lee oversaw the Guizhou Ethnic Minorities Project at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. This project documented the cultural heritage and traditions of a group of Kam minority villages in the Guizhou province of China through photographs, video and audio recordings. After joining the Pacific in 2009, Lee has focused on preservation of the crafts and designs unique to the village of Dimen, the hub of all the other villages. Since video recordings and photography alone could not effectively document the local crafts processes in their entirety, Lee and her Pacific students apprenticed with the local artisans to master their techniques. Lee also collected indigenous design motifs to be used on materials promoting the village and selling its goods abroad. In collaboration with Dimen Dong Eco-Museum, she designed a series of packaging solutions for local produce and the Museum's website providing information on Dimen and its goods. Lee holds a BFA and an MFA in Graphic Design from Colorado State University and a BA in Advertising from Michigan State University. She practices design and exhibits artwork in USA, China and the Czech Republic.
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- Professor of Architectural History at Ecole Spéciale De L'Architecture
Marie Aquilino is professor of architectural history at Ecole Spéciale de l'Architecture (ESA) in Paris and a specialist in contemporary urban redevelopment and risk mitigation. For the past eight years she has been giving seminars on the architect's role in disaster prevention, mitigation and sustainable recovery as a means of talking with students and professionals about architecture and social justice. Marie is the author and editor of Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity (Metropolis Press), which aims to inform, educate, and sensitize architects to the best practices of reducing disaster risk worldwide. Marie was recently honored by the French government with a Competences and Talents Visa to develop a program at ESA that will educate and train architecture students to work in the contexts of extreme need and crisis in the developing world. She is currently part of an international working group on the reconstruction of Haiti and is Associate Program Director of BaSiC Initiative, Europe. Marie recently helped found Future City Lab, an international consortium of twelve schools of architecture and design concerned the future of urban environments. She is also one of twelve laureates of the Partner University Fund for 2011. Marie holds a Ph.D from Brown University in art and architectural history and is bilingual in French and English.
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- Director of the Flance Early Learning Center
Mark Cross is the Director of the Flance Early Learning Center. Prior to Flance, he was the Director of Interchange, a collaborative arts integration program at COCA. Interchange worked at twelve elementary schools across five school districts, including one charter school and one independent school. In addition, he taught for 11 years at Vashon High School in the the St. Louis Public School system. Mark brings over 15 years of educational experience to the position. Prior to his time in education, he worked for 10 years in the healthcare industry with the Sisters of Mercy Health System.
Mark Palmer: is a Senior Associate at RTKL in Washington, DC. He works as a designer in healthcare architecture with a focus on exterior building design, master planning, sustainable design, and research. He's worked on a variety of architecture and design projects in the US, Canada, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Mark began volunteering with Architecture for Humanity in 2004 and has helped to lead and facilitate both design and community engagement projects. In 2010, Mark spoke at the UN Habitat Conference on Promoting Green Building Rating Systems in Africa. His design philosophy has been driven by an interest in culture, ecology, social impact, and thinking about buildings as systems rather than objects.
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- the Infrastructure Policy Adviser
Matthew Jelacic is the Infrastructure Policy Adviser in the Office of Energy and Infrastructure at the US Agency for International Development. Prior to joining USAID in 2016, he taught the practice and history of design for over twenty years. Matthew has expertise in multiple design fields, including: Environmental Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Urban Design, and Urban Planning. MArch, Harvard University, BArch, Pratt Institute.
Maurice Cox is an urban designer and the Director of the Tulane City Center. Prior to directing the Tulane City Center, he was an educator at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture and former mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia. He most recently served as Director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts where he presided over the largest expansion of direct grants to the design fields. Cox served as a Charlottesville City Councilor for six years before becoming the mayor of that city, from 2002-2004. His experience merging architecture, politics and design education led to his being named one of "20 Masters of Design" in 2004 by Fast Company Business Magazine. He is also a founding partner of RBGC Architecture, Research and Urbanism (1996-2006). Their design for a New Rural Village in Bayview, Virginia received numerous national design awards as well as being featured on CBS's "60 Minutes" and in the documentary film "This Black Soil". A recipient of the 2009 Edmund Bacon Prize, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2004-05 Loeb Fellowship and the 2006 John Hejduk Award for Architecture, Cox received his architectural education from the Cooper Union School of Architecture.
Maurice Cox: is the Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans. He served as Design Director of the NEA in Washington, DC from 2007-2010 where he led the Mayor's Institute on City Design and the Governor's Institute on Community Design. Cox was a Charlottesville City Councilor for six years before becoming the mayor of that city, from 2002-2004. His experience merging architecture, politics, and design education led to his being named one of "20 Masters of Design" in 2004 by Fast Company Business Magazine. Cox received his architectural education from the Cooper Union School of Architecture.
Mauro Quintanilha - 2015 SEED Award winner: is the founding President of Park and Institute Sitiê, a self-taught industrial designer and a professional musician. Before creating Sitiê, Mauro had an accomplished musical career, playing the drums with Dorival Caymi, Wilson Simonal and Emilio Santiago, touring in both South and North America and teaching in several music schools around Rio de Janeiro. He was born and raised in the favela of Vidigal and today is a reference in his community and the city of Rio for his leadership and vision leading the transformation of Sitiê from a trash dump to public green space.
Michael Haggerty is an urban planner and designer who lives in New York City. He is a co-director of Solo Kota Kita , an Indonesia-based urban planning organization that works with city residents and government officials to understand the complexities of the built environment. Solo Kota Kita's projects have included community-based mapping, post-disaster planning, climate change vulnerability assessment, city development strategies, and public space design in cities across Indonesia. Michael is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture Programs in Sustainable Planning and Development.
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- Co - Founder and Executive Director of MASS Design Group
Michael Murphy is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of MASS Design Group, which is a design firm geared towards improving health outcomes in resource-limited settings. In addition to leading the design and construction of the Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda, which opened in January of 2011, Michael's firm MASS has been the recipient of the 2010 Design Futures Council Emerging Leaders Scholarship, chosen as one of Fast Company Magazine's "Master of Design" and awarded as a Metropolis Magazine 2011 "Game Changer". MASS was recently selected as a finalist for MoMA PS1's 2011 Young Architects Program and was honored alongside IDEO's CEO Tim Brown for its contribution to the field of design. MASS Design Group currently has offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Kigali, Rwanda, and Port au Prince Haiti. In 2012 MASS opened the Girubuntu Primary School in Kigali, and broke ground on several projects in Haiti, including the new GHESKIO Tuberculosis Facility constructed out of locally fabricated materials. Michael has a Masters in Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, has taught courses on design for infection control at Harvard University's school of Public Health, and was a 2011 Entrepreneur in Residence at Clark University as well as a Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at the Boston Architectural College. Michael with partner Alan Ricks recently accepted the award for 2012 Designer of the Year from Contract Magazine and the Curry Stone Design Award for 2012.
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- Civil Engineer at Kimley - Horn
Michael Westfall: is a civil engineer at Kimley-Horn who specializes in civil design and project management. Michael has a diverse range of experience that includes retail, multi-family and municipal projects for which he leads the entitlements, design, and permitting process. Michael is currently providing services for H.I.S. BridgeBuilders in the Bonton Community with his efforts to rezone and site plan the Bonton Farms development. Michael graduated in 2004 from Texas A&M University and is a licensed engineer in Texas and North Carolina.
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- Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Interior
Michael Zaretsky is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design (SAID) in the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati. He is a licensed Architect, a LEED Accredited Professional and a consultant on sustainable and humanitarian design. His research is focused around culturally, economically, technologically and environmentally responsive design for communities in need. His published work includes the book Precedents in Zero-Energy Design: Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon (Routledge Press, 2009) and he is co-editor (with Dr. Adrian Parr) of New Directions in Sustainable Design (Routledge Press, 2010). In addition, he has had several articles published in architectural journals and presented at conferences around the world on Sustainability, Humanitarian Design and Appropriate Technologies. Michael works with the non-profit organization Village Life Outreach Project where he is the director of the Roche Health Center Design Committee, a group that has been developing a zero-energy health center in rural Tanzania. Following extensive research with the local community and within the University of Cincinnati, the Roche Health Center will be the first-ever permanent health care facility in this region and will provide health care to approximately 20,000 villagers. The building design and construction provides a reproducible, low-cost, durable structure made of all local materials and techniques.
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- Associate Chair and Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Utah
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- Assistant Professor of Architecture
- Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban
- Associate Professor, UNC Charlotte
Nadia M. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and the Director of the City Building Lab at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research, teaching, and practice focus on publicly-engaged design as a vehicle for social empowerment and environmental resilience. Prior to joining the UNC Charlotte faculty, Nadia was a member of the Architecture and Urban Design faculty at Iowa State University (ISU). She co-founded and co-directed the Community Design Lab, an interdisciplinary engaged research practice, as a partnership between ISU Extension and College of Design. Nadia is a licensed architect, practicing in Chicago, Warsaw, and Vienna prior to moving to full-time academic work. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.
Nadia Anderson: is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Iowa State University where she teaches interdisciplinary outreach studios and seminars on design activism and urbanism. She leads the Bridge Studio, winner of the 2009 NCARB Prize, and co-directs the ISU Community Design Lab. Her work investigates the theory and practice of public interest design as a force for justice in the built environment. Prior to joining ISU in 2005, Nadia practiced architecture in Chicago, Warsaw, and Vienna. She received her Master of Architecture degree in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania and her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 from Yale University.
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- Executive Director
- Director of Creating Homes for Community Solutions
Nadine Maleh. Executive Director, Institute for Public Architecture and Senior Advisor, Community Solutions. For the past thirteen years, Nadine has been an active member in the social interest design community. Prior to joining the IPA, Nadine was the Director of Inspiring Places at Community Solutions (CS). Nadine spearheaded the organization's efforts in real estate and community activation. She developed the design and development protocols for CS real estate work in NYC, New Orleans, Hartford, CT and Washington, DC. She is responsible for the creation of over 1,000 units of supportive housing in NYC. In addition, Nadine just completed an in depth study on a public housing campus working closely with both public housing residents and staff.
Nadine Maleh is the Director of Creating Homes for Community Solutions. In this position Nadine is responsible for the development of supportive housing and community development through local partnership and the implementation of strategic development initiatives that will support the mission of the organization. Nadine has extensive experience in planning, design and construction supervision for housing development projects. Her expertise includes sustainable design, program development based on needs of diverse populations, and the integration of health concerns into building design. Nadine has been responsible for overseeing the design and development of over 1000 units of affordable housing with over 800 of those units built sustainably.She is a member of the Architectural League of New York, Architecture for Humanity, the Housing Committee for the Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program in the NorthEast, and has been a visiting critic and lecturer at Columbia University, Pratt School of Architecture, Parsons School of Design, and Yale University. Nadine earned her B.A. in architectural studies from Tufts University, and her Masters of Architecture with Honors from Illinois Institute of Technology.
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- Project Manager, Small Center for Collaborative Design
Nick Jenisch, Project Manager, Small Center for Collaborative Design. Nick is a project manager for the Albert & Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, and has been engaged in public interest design for more than ten years. With experience in teaching, project management, and planning across continents, he brings a deep understanding of urban scale and the regional context of Small Center's projects. As a Project Manager, Nick keeps track of project schedules and budgets, and stewards relationships in both the public and private sector. He also conducts research on affordable housing in New Orleans and the impact of policy on urbanization, and is a member of Urban Orders, a transdisciplinary research network based at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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- Executive Director of the Community Development Corporation
Nick Mitchell-Bennett: is Executive Director of the Community Development Corporation of Brownsville. He currently serves as the chair of the Board of Directors of the Texas Association of Community Development Corporations and as well as a board member of the National Rural Housing Coalition and Proyecto Juan Diego. Nick holds an M.S. degree in Economic Development from Eastern University and a B.A. degree in Political Science/International Studies from Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas. He graduated from the NeighborWorks Achieving Excellence Program at Harvard University Kennedy School in March, 2012. Under his leadership, CDCB has become one of the biggest developers in the Rio Grande Valley.
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- Research Associate at Habitat Unit
Nina Pawlicki is a teaching and research associate at Habitat Unit within the School of Architecture, TU Berlin and member of the CoCoon-Studio, dedicated to the DesignBuild methodology. Through transdisciplinary, hands-on approaches she is seeking to investigate how community engagement processes can lead to the design of more inclusive living environments. With a particular interest in facilitating mutually-benefical collaborations on the interface between academia and non-academia she co-initiated the dbXchange.eu platform and ran projects in Mexico, Mongolia, Jordan, Colombia and Germany. Nina studied architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has a wide range of experiences from working for different architecture offices.
Nina Pawlicki - 2015 SEED Award winner: is Project Manager and Construction Supervisor at CoCoon‘s DesignBuild-Studio "Praktikumsseminar Mexiko". She ran DesignBuild-projects in Mexico and Mongolia and is currently initiating one in Berlin. She co-initiated the European DesignBuild Knowledge Network funded by the European Union and in cooperation with the Habitat Unit in 2013 and co-hosted the symposium ‘DesignBuild-Studio: New Ways in Architectural Education' in 2012. Nina studied architecture at the TU Berlin and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has practiced in various architecture offices.
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director of BcWORKSHOP 's RGV
Omar Hakeem is an Associate Director at bcWORKSHOP. Omar's passion for design has taken him from the cloud forests of Costa Rica to the ravaged communities of the Gulf Coast and many places in between. Through these opportunities Omar has studied and practice how design can act as a catalyst for supporting resilient, sustainable communities. As an Associate Director with bcWORKSHOP, Omar leads the Rio Grande Valley office in its efforts to build social and environmental equality through design and planning. Prior to moving to south Texas, Omar led numerous projects in the Dallas office ranging from floating eco-classrooms to large multifamily affordable housing projects.Originally from Washington, D.C., he received his B.S. of Architecture from SUNY Buffalo, and a Master of Architecture and M.S. of Sustainability from the University of Minnesota in 2009. Omar is currently pursuing his professional licensure.
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- Architect, Program Director of ReSITE
Osamu Okamura: is an Architect, Program Director of reSITE international festival and conference on more livable cities, and editorial supervisor of professional architecture magazine ERA21. He is also a lecturer at ARCHIP (Architectural Institute in Prague). Osamu lectured in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Japan, and Thailand, and he's an Expert Advisor of Metropolitan Sounding Board of Prague City Council in the issues of urban development. Osamu graduated from the Faculty of Architecture CTU Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He studied at ENSA Nantes, France.
Pacia Anderson is a published poet, teaching artist, and community organizer. Pacia teaches performance poetry, creative writing, and mural art classes at St. Louis area schools. She is a founding member of Cherokee Street Reach, an arts-based youth initiative in South City, St. Louis. Pacia has served as a youth poetry slam team coach, journalist, community arts organizer, event and program coordinator, workshop facilitator, and curator, partnering with numerous city arts, education, and media institutions. Pacia is a graduate of the Community Arts Training Institute, an Urban Bush Women SLI Fellow, collaborator with Yeyo Arts Collective, and chair of the St. Louis Brick City Poetry Festival. She received an AA from Southwestern Illinois College and is completing her B.S. in Education at Harris-Stowe State University in Saint Louis, MO.
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- Executive Director of Encore Park Dallas
Pat Bywaters: is the Executive Director of Encore Park Dallas - a recently-formed nonprofit to run social and cultural programming at 508 Park. He is also a member of the team that is planning, developing, and raising funds for the Encore Park Project which is being developed by The Stewpot. Architecture, history, music, art, and preservation have been passions of his for many years. Prior to becoming involved with Encore Park, he worked for 20 years in management consulting and 8 years in engineering consulting professions. He is the grandson of Jerry Bywaters - Texas regionalist artist - who also served as director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Art for 23 years at Fair Park.
Paul Tesar is a native of Vienna, Austria, where he studied architecture at the T.U. Wien and received the professional degree "Diplomingenieur." He practiced in a number of offices, most notably with Rupert Falkner of Vienna and Luciano Savi of Lugano, and collaborated with distinction on several major national and international competitions. With the help of a Fulbright Grant he came to the United States to study at the University of Washington in Seattle. Paul is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers since 1978, and was named Alumni Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University in 1992, Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1996 and 2004, and served as Visiting Professor at the FH/Hochschule für Technik in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2000. In 2005, Paul received the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Paul served as Head of the Department of Architecture in 1990/91 and as Director of the School of Architecture in 2007/08
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- Principal at Trapolin Peer Architects
Paula Peer, Principal at Trapolin Peer Architects. Paula began her career in Los Angeles and in the following years built experience with single- and multi-family residential and mixed-use developments in New Orleans and with RTKL in Dallas. Since joining the firm in 2001, Paula has applied her experience with complex projects to allow the firm to successfully complete work of significant scale. In recognition Paula was made a principal in 2009. She has served on the board of the New Orleans Chapter of the American Institute of Architect (AIA) since 2011 and as acting chapter president in 2015. She is also a founding member of Women In Architecture (WIA) and the New Orleans Architecture Foundation (NOAF). Paula received her degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Pedro Henrique de Cristo - 2015 SEED Award winner: is Co-founder of +D Studio and Director of Park and Institute Sitiê, both located in the Favela of Vidigal in Rio de Janeiro, where he integrates the research, design and development of architecture, policy and technology. A two-time UN laureate on sustainability, arts, and activism, he is trained at Officina de Arquitetura and has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard where his thesis was turned into the studio School of the Year 2030@RJ and he earned, with Caroline de Cristo, the Appleton Fellowship on Architectures of Urban Integration, both at the GSD.
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- Professor of Housing and Community Design Studios at Tecnologico De Monterrey
Pedro Pacheco Vazquez: is a Professor of housing and community design studios at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Dr. Pacheco combines theory and practice by involving students either as interns or as service providers. He typically uses the service-learning methodology as a tool to connect students with the realities of site and clients. Since 1994 Dr. Pacheco has provided consultancy and advice for private and public organization on projects ranging from housing prototypes to community centers and a botanical garden. In 2013, he created T-kio, a firm dedicated to community planning, design and construction as a vehicle to expand his services and to integrate other professionals in the consultancy work. He completed his PhD in Adult and Community Education at Ball State University, and earned a Masters degree in Urban and Community Planning and a Masters degree of Architecture from Iowa State University.
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- President of MHTN Architects
Peggy McDonough Jan is President of MHTN Architects. She recognizes the importance of design, and urges young architects to integrate social responsibility into the practice of architecture. She is a native of Utah, having earned her degree in Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. Her honors include being the recipient of the 1989 Annual Lloyd Warren Fellowship / Paris Prize in Architecture, awarded to one young architect annually by the National Institute for Architectural Education, formerly the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Ms. McDonough serves on the Advisory Board for the U of U College of Architecture + Planning, having served as Adjunct Faculty to the school from 1996 to 2011. As President of MHTN, she emphasizes a collaborative design culture through pin-up reviews of cross-office teams. Peggy is honored to work with the Volunteers of America, and to help them lift the underserved youth of our community through the power of place.
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- Founder and Principal of Szostak Design, Chapel Hill
- Principal - in - Charge, Szostak Design, Chapel Hill NC
Philip Szostak, FAIA, is the Founder and Principal of Szostak Design, Chapel Hill, NC. Phil has over 30 years of experience in a broad variety of architectural design projects. Phil's design work has been widely acclaimed, garnering twelve state and regional AIA design awards in the past decade. Recent projects include the Durham Performing Arts Center; the Walltown Recreation Center in Durham, North Carolina; the Theater Annex in Durham, North Carolina, the Columbia Street Annex Residential Development in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and the New American Home residential development in Raleigh, North Carolina. Phil is a graduate of NC State University's School of Design. Prior to founding Szostack Design, Phil was the NC Principal for NBBJ, the country's second largest architectural practice.
Philip Szostak has over 30 years of experience in a broad variety of architectural design projects. A graduate of NC State University's School of Design, he first opened Philip Szostak Associates (PSA) in 1980 where he demonstrated exceptional abilities in designing projects ranging in scale from small renovations to complex, multi-million dollar facilities. Philip was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2009 and was the 2010 co-recipient of AIA North Carolina's Kamphoefner Award for outstanding contributions to modernism. Philip is responsible for the design and documentation of all projects in the firm. His recent projects include the Durham Performing Arts Center; the Walltown Recreation Center in Durham, North Carolina; the Theater Annex in Durham, North Carolina, the Columbia Street Annex Residential Development in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and the New American Home residential development in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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- Community Development Coordinator at the University of Colorado Denver
Rachel Cleaves is the Community Development Coordinator at the University of Colorado Denver. Her duties include coordinating LiveWell Westwood and Globeville, Elyria-Swansea LiveWell. In 2007, she earned her Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado Denver. In her work to address health disparities, Cleaves has fundraised over $3 million, brought together diverse stakeholders in effective coalitions, and implemented a range of initiatives. Prior to her work with UC-Denver, Rachel served as In-Country Director for a service and cultural exchange program in Belize. Rachel also worked as a senior instructor with Alternative Youth Adventures, guiding groups of adjudicated youth on 60 day wilderness trips in southern Utah and southwest Colorado. Rachel was born in Peru and raised in Mexico, Panama, Chicago, and Austin, Texas. Her Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College is in English and Environmental Studies.
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- Director of Sustainable Development Policy at the American Institute of Architects
Rachel Minnery Sr. Director of Sustainable Development Policy at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) overseeing the institute's programs disaster assistance, resilience and adaptation, and sustainable community development. I am a licensed architect with vast experience in public, private and non-profit sectors including all phases of design and construction for multi-million dollar affordable housing, healthcare, education and other community-based architecture and planning projects. My innovative research-based work includes feasibility studies, campus/development planning, new construction, renovations, additions, remodels, and retrofits. I actively promote economic, environmental and social sustainability and frequently speak and write on issues in the built environment related to green building, resilience, natural disasters and public-interest design
Ramiro Gonzalez: is the Redevelopment Manager for the City of Brownsville. With an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and a Masters in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin, Ramiro chose to return to his hometown in 2009 becoming the Comprehensive Planning Manager for the City of Brownsville. Ramiro has worked on major initiatives in Brownsville including Downtown Revitalization and Brownsville\'s Master Hike and Bike Plan. In addition to his efforts on Downtown Revitalization, he serves on the TSC Architecture Advisory Committee, TXDOT State Bicycle Advisory Committee, Brownsville Wellness Coalition, and the Community Advisory Board.
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- Co - Founder and Design Director of Design Impact, Present to the PIDI Attendees in Atlanta
Ramsey Ford is the Co-founder and Design Director of Design Impact. Ramsey's experience as a leader in social innovation is rooted in his background of design, entrepreneurship, and product development. In his 10+ years working as a design consultant, he has helped several Fortune 500 companies develop and successfully market innovative and category transforming products. As a serial entrepreneur, he has developed three successful service and product-based businesses and is listed on several patents. Most recently, Ramsey has invested his efforts in co-founding Design Impact, a social venture that connects design with low-income communities in India. An award winning designer for both his for- and non-profit projects, Ramsey has worked to further the conversation on innovative design in the social sector through numerous workshops, published articles, and speaking engagements. He received an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design from the University of Cincinnati in 2003 and a Master's of Design from the same in 2009.
Ramsey Ford, Co-founder and Design Director of Design Impact, present to the PIDI attendees in Atlanta.
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- Principal at Shed Studio in Chicago
Rashmi Ramaswamy is a Principal at Shed Studio in Chicago, a new architectural and sustainable design collaborative. She has been working as an architect in Chicago for 12 years, and has a diverse background in architecture, education and a strong personal interest in public housing issues and environmental. Rashmi worked for 9 years at McBride Kelley Baurer, a Chicago architectural firm, as project manager and Senior Associate. She has been involved in several projects in Chicago for non-for-profit t clients including a campus for at-risk teen youth, a transitional shelter for women, HUD 202 senior housing and a daycare facility. She has also worked on an assortment of faith based projects and has extensive experience with corporate clients including IBM and Wrigley. Her work at the Wrigley building has ranged between urban design/master planning, building restoration and preservation to tenant build-outs. These projects have given her an understanding of the complicated processes involved in securing funding and meeting regulations.
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- Director of Project Development for the Washington DC Chapter of Architecture for Humanity
Rayya Newman, AIA,LEED AP BD+C, SEED, Senior Associate, Inscape Studio, Outreach Director, Inscape Publico. Rayya is an Architect with Inscape Studio and the Outreach Director with Inscape Publico, both are SEED-certified ‘sister' firms, located in Washington DC. In her free time, she volunteers as Chapter Director for Open Architecture DC, a diverse volunteer base working to improve and help communities through socially responsible and sustainable design. She is an AIA member, LEED-accredited, and SEED-certified professional. Rayya believes in the triple bottom line approach to sustainability including social and economic as well as environmental issues. Her blog publicinterestdesigndc.org highlights public interest design projects, events, and people in the DC area. Rayya received her Bachelor of Architecture from The Catholic University of America and her Master of Architecture from Virginia Tech..
Rebecca Weaver is the Green City Coalition Engagement Coordinator. Green City Coalition (GCC), is a cooperative agreement between the Missouri Department of Conservation, City of St. Louis, and Missouri Botanical Garden, and is supported by an array of cross-sector organizations working collaboratively with St. Louis residents to turn vacant land into co-created community green spaces. Weaver has a Master's degree in Conservation Biology from Miami University's Global Field Program. Her background and interests are centered on community-based conservation efforts, youth leadership development, and grassroots strategies for sustainable community development.
Richard T. Butler: has spent the last 35 years of his life working in the sport, health, and fitness industry. He is an accomplished and results-oriented leader with a diverse background that includes business leadership, business coaching, and development. Richard was recently hired to serve as the Executive Director of the West End Alliance Community Development Corporation. The primary focus of the West End Alliance is economic development, housing, and the development of a green infrastructure within District 2 of Pittsburgh. Richard also is an Adjunct at Robert Morris University. He has a Master of Science Degree in Organizational Leadership.
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- Founding Partner of in
- in.Site: Architecture, Mayor of Perry, NY
Rick Hauser is a founding partner of In.Site: Architecture, based in Perry and Geneva, New York. He is also Mayor of the Village of Perry, NY, and he manages Perry New York LLC, a for-profit, community-wide investment corporation dedicated to rehabilitating buildings and bringing businesses to Perry's downtown. He now helps other communities invent similar approaches to catalyzing downtown re-investment. He received his bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1995. He worked part-time in architectural offices in Charlottesville, VA, before locating in western NY near his wife's dairy farm. He started In.Site:Architecture in early 2001.
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- Founder, RK Stewart Consultants
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- Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at Washington
Rod Barnett is Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at Washington University in St Louis. His research is in landscape emergence and nonlinear landscapes, which he explores through his teaching and practice. Barnett has written extensively on themes developed from his work, including interpretations of historical landscapes, indigenous place-making, and landscape systems as emergent conditions in sites as far-flung as the coastlines of Tonga, the Mississippi Delta, the under-served districts of St Louis, MO, and the stone alignments of Carnac in Brittany, France. He maintains an experimental practice investigating relationships between the human and nonhuman realms.
Ronit Eisenbach, University of Maryland Associate Professor of Architecture and Kibel Gallery Chair, is an architect, public artist and curator who employs design to explore how the perception of subjective, invisible and ephemeral objects affects understanding and experience of place. Through the construction of participatory, collaborative, temporary site-specific environments and events, Eisenbach stimulates public dialogue about the world we build for ourselves. Venues have included: The Detroit Institute of Arts; the streets of Tel Aviv; Lake Anne Plaza, Reston, Virginia; Galleri Rom, Oslo, Norway; and Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice, Italy. Publications include, "Installations by Architects: Explorations in Building and Design" and "Ruth Adler Schnee: A Passion for Color." Her work has been supported by the Center for Creative Research, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Graham Foundation, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship program, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Articles by Eisenbach and reviews of her work have recently appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, the Public Art Review, The Washington Post, Washington Times, Sculpture Magazine, and Metropolis. Eisenbach is a 2006 Beverly Willis Architecture Fellow, a 2009 Center for Creative Research Fellow, a 2011 MacDowell Colony Fellow and serves on the National Building Museum's Education Committee. www.roniteisenbach.com
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- Senior Urban Designer at Perkins
Ryan Gravel AICP, LEED AP is a Senior Urban Designer at Perkins + Will in Atlanta, GA. Ryan offers an architect's perspective to urban planning, bringing the knowledge of building dimension and design to site planning, concept development and public policy. His master's thesis in 1999 was the original vision for the ambitious Atlanta BeltLine, a 22-mile transit greenway that transforms a loop of old railroads with light-rail transit, parks and trails to generate economic growth and protect quality-of-life in 45 neighborhoods throughout the central city. Eight years of his subsequent work as a volunteer and later in the nonprofit and government sectors was critical to the BeltLine's success, which is now more than a $2 billion public-private initiative in the early stages of implementation. Ryan is design manager for the Atlanta BeltLine Corridor design and is also working with other clients to develop their vision, such as the South Fork Conservancy's Watershed Vision plan for 40 miles of hiking trails along Peachtree Creek. Ryan speaks internationally about the BeltLine and has been recognized for his accomplishments including the Atlanta Urban Design Commission's highest award in 2007 and Esquire Magazine's "Best and Brightest" in 2006.
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- Project Designer With BNIM
Sam De Jong is a project designer with BNIM, an architecture and community planning firm specializing in deep community engagement processes and sustainable design. While at BNIM, Sam has played a key role on numerous projects, including leading the design effort and community engagement process on the mixed-used Rockhurst University Parking Garage. Sam has also accomplished work on award-winning projects in Greensburg, Kansas, that created new models for the built environment in rural American cities. At Iowa State University, he worked on a diverse team to design a sustainable village in Uganda, Africa. The project produced a new model applicable to many villages in developing countries. Sam continues work in Africa today, working with a community in remote Kenya to design and create a new campus for a secondary school and ministry center. The project is focused on developing solutions that are not only sustainable for its region, but create a new livelihood for the surrounding communities. Sam joins BNIM with the shared belief that interdisciplinary design teams create an architecture that is of high quality, innovation and lasting positive impact.
Sarah Endriss is the founder and principal landscape planner of Asarum LandDesign Group, a small Philadelphia based firm, and Adjunct Faculty with the College of Architecture and the Built Environment at Jefferson +Philadelphia University. As an expert facilitator of community engagement processes, Sarah works to reconnect people to each other and to their community by revealing and celebrating the ecology, economy, and historic and cultural identity of a place. With professional degrees in Historic Preservation Planning (BS, Roger Williams University) and Landscape Architecture (MLA SUNY-ESF), Sarah has spent her career working in the realm of public interest design, exploring and experimenting with methods of community engagement to generate real change, civic empowerment, revitalization, and healing.
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- Co - Director of AfH - DC
Sarah Mehaffey: is a Co-Director of AfH-DC, and during her 9 years volunteering with the organization has worked as a design team member on several international projects. She is a licensed Architect with 13 years of experience, currently working as a Project Architect at EYP, Inc. in Washington, DC. She received her Master's degree in Architecture, with an emphasis on Sustainable Design, from the University of Texas at Austin, and has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Sarah works under the philosophy that respect for one's surroundings and neighbors, coupled with thoughtful design, can solve most problems.
Scott Moore y Medina, AIA NCARB - 2015 SEED Award winner: is an architect, community builder and co-founder of Blue Star Studio Inc., an Indigenous American architecture and planning enterprise located on the Osage Nation. Blue Star Studio is dedicated to quality design and smart community building. In his work, Scott creates place-based, common sense solutions centered on community involvement and local empowerment for rural and Tribal communities facing unique challenges. He has coordinated several sustainable regional planning projects in Indian Country. He is actively bringing efficient, affordable, replicable, and culturally relevant designs to life, while leading game-changing community development projects that improve lives and support resilient economies.
Scott Walzak: is the co-founder of MakeDC - Washington, D.C.'s first public interest design studio. He has always believed in the power of design thinking to provide thoughtful, human-centered solutions. This passion is most fully expressed in MakeDC, which was launched to offer design services to those who have not generally had the benefit of thoughtful design. A recipient of multiple design awards, Scott has served on design juries and is an established academic and professional speaker. An experienced project manager, Scott simplifies the process of design, construction, and implementation through collaborative and integrative strategies that incorporate the needs of stakeholders, shareholders, and users.
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- President of TRF Development Partners
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- Senior Fellow of the Center for Public Interest Design
- Senior Fellow of the New Center for Sustainable Solutions
Sergio Palleroni is a Senior Fellow of the new Center for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University, and a founding member and faculty of the federally funded Green Building Research Lab. Professor Palleroni's research and fieldwork for the last two decades has been in the methods of integrating sustainable practices to improve the lives of communities worldwide typically underserved. In 1988, to serve the needs of these communities he founded an academic outreach program that would later become the BASIC Initiative (www.basicinitiative.org), a service-learning fieldwork program. Today, the BASIC Initiative continues to serve the poor in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the U.S. In addition, Professor Palleroni has worked and been a consultant on sustainable architecture and development in the developing world since the 1980s, both for not-for-profit agencies and governmental and international agencies such as UNESCO, World Bank, and the governments of China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua and Taiwan. Palleroni holds a Master of Science in Architectural Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon.
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- Deputy Director, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office
Sheila Lewis, Deputy Director, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Justice, Washington (EPA), DC. Sheila provides leadership to the office administrative and contracts team as well as the External Team, which includes the program areas of the Environmental Justice Grants and the National Environmental Justice Federal Advisory Committee. Sheila has a background in contracts and grants administration and over twenty years of experience working with communities. She works extensively with community organizations on a range of issues such as lead remediation, indoor air asthma triggers and farmer pesticide. Sheila's previous experiences include working with the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), the Virginia State Cooperation Commission, and the American Red Cross. She has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Hampton University.
Simon Colwill studied "Landscape Architecture" at the University of Greenwich in London and moved to Berlin, Germany in 1995 where he worked as a freelancer with a focus on landscape design, town planning, detailing and design competitions. Since 2004, he has been a teaching and research associate at the Department of Landscape Design and Construction at the Technische Universität in Berlin, supervising many study projects and seminars in the bachelor and master's program. He has been a member of CoCoon - contextual construction since 2007, co-initiated the EuropeanDesignBuild Knowledge Network and has been involved in a number of DesignBuild projects in Mexico, Bolivia, Egypt and in Germany.
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- Design Director of Inscape Publico
- Principal, Inscape Studio, Design
Stefan Schwarzkopf: is the Design Director of Inscape Publico. Believing in the power of good design and the benefit of making this accessible to more people, Stefan has worked on a variety of pro-bono projects throughout his career. Shortly after beginning to work with Inscape Studio, he and Inscape founder Greg Kearley co-founded Inscape Publico, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit architecture firm that is 100% dedicated to this meaningful work, and in combination with Inscape Studio forms a social enterprise representing a viable business focused on much more than just making money doing good design.
Stefan Schwarzkopf, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Inscape Studio, Design Director, Inscape Publico, Washington DC. Stefan has headed or contributed to a variety of community-based work throughout his career, including a large scale art installation in a public park, graphic design and layout for nonprofit organizations, and set design for a community theatre. Stefan joined Inscape Studio in 2009 where he is a principal and pursues a collaborative approach to an enhanced level of design for residential, commercial, institutional, and nonprofit organizations, all linked by a commitment to making a positive social impact and rejuvenating the environment. In 2010 he co-founded the nonprofit firm Inscape Publico, which works in tandem with Inscape Studio to expand Inscape's service offerings to nonprofit organizations.
Stephanie Miller: currently serves as the Deputy Director of Economic Development South, the first multi-municipal economic development corporation in Allegheny County. Ms. Miller works directly with the executive director on projects and initiatives related to the economic revitalization of South Pittsburgh/South Hills Corridor Communities of Brentwood, Baldwin, Whitehall, Mt. Oliver, Jefferson Hills, Pleasant Hills, Bethel Park, Carrick, Overbrook, Knoxville and Brookline. Ms. Miller holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Hood College and a Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning and International Urbanism from the University of Pittsburgh.
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- Director, Center for the LivingCity, University of Utah
Stephen Kennedy is an urban planner and designer working as a Design & Technology Fellow for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D,.C. and is a co-founder of the Urban Launchpad, a social-venture dedicated to seeding and scaling urban data experiments in places that need it most. Prior to switching to urban-scale projects, Stephen cut his creative teeth designing lighting, furniture, packaging, soft goods, websites, and maps as an industrial designer.
Steve Zwolak is the CEO of LUME Institute and Executive Director of University City Children's Center. He has more than 40 years of experience in early childhood education as a teacher, a parent and family educator, a program and school administrator, and a community leader. Steve's years as a classroom teacher and a leader in educational arenas have enabled him to build an approach to education for which there is preliminary evidence of closing the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. When he joined UCCC the program had only 25 children enrolled. Since 2000, the UCCC program has grown to be one of the most highly regarded early childhood programs in Missouri. It is because of the success of UCCC that Mr. Zwolak led the founding of LUME, and now uses UCCC as a home base for innovation while he and his staff go out into the community to change the face of early childhood education.
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- Moderator
- Programs Manager, Albert & Tina Small Center, Tulane
Sue Mobley, Programs Manager, Albert & Tina Small Center, Tulane. Sue comes to Small Center with a decade of experience in New Orleans nonprofit and advocacy sectors. With a background in political science, anthropology, and sociology, Sue pushes design students to think about the context of Small Center's projects and partners' work. As Public Programs Manager, Sue gathers people from different fields and backgrounds for great conversations about critical issues affecting New Orleans. She is also the lead researcher, writer, and organizer of Small Center's exhibits, and runs Small Center's evaluation process for past projects.
Suman Sorg FAIA, guides Sorg Architects as Founding Principal and Chief Designer. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors, including 26 awards from the American Institute of Architects. She has lectured extensively for the AIA, the National Building Museum, the Urban Land Institute, the Center for Architecture in New York, and others. Suman serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Building Museum and she is a Peer Reviewer for the General Services Administration Design Excellence Program. Suman began her studies at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India and completed her Bachelor of Architecture at Howard University in Washington, DC. She went on to study Design and Historic Preservation at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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- Founder and Director of the Community Design Resource Center
Susan Rogers: is the Founder and Director of the Community Design Resource Center (CDRC) at the University of Houston's College of Architecture and an Assistant Professor. She is an educator and practicing community designer and planner. Her research, teaching, and practice focus on design as a strategy for community change, exploring the seams between design, equity, and the public interest. The CDRC, founded in 2005, has partnered with dozens of local community-based and non-profit organizations as a means to develop collaborative and pragmatic solutions to the challenges facing the city.
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- Programs Manager at Design Corps
Susan Thering, Ph.D. is Programs Manager at Design Corps. She has contributed to partnership projects in urban brownfield neighborhoods, rural "coal country" Appalachia, and remote First Nations reservations. Sue's practice, research, publications, and teaching focus on documenting the outcomes of transdisciplinary and participatory community planning and design, with particular attention to social outcomes. Sue holds professional degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture (BPS Arch, SUNY Buffalo & MLA Cornell) and a research degree in Environmental Science (Ph.D. SUNY-ESF). Prior to joining the Design Corps team, Sue was the Founding Director of Design Coalition Institute in Madison WI. Prior to that, Sue was the Founding Director of the Community Design Action-Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thomas Barrie, AIA teaches undergraduate and graduate design studios and history-theory seminars at NC State. Professor Barrie served as Director of the School of Architecture from 2002 to 2007. Two parallel interests comprise Professor Barrie's teaching, scholarship, and publication - both of which occupy the common ground of syncretic approaches to meaningful placemaking in the built environment. Professor Barrie maintains a critical architectural practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. Before joining NC State, Barrie was Professor of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan where he founded The Detroit Studio. He has also taught at the University of Manchester (UK), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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- Partner, Chan Krieger NBBJ
Guest lecturers David Perkes and Roberta Feldman (right) with visitor Katie Swenson
at the first Public Interest Design Institute July 20-22, 2011 at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA.
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- Professor and Director of the J. Max Bond Center
Toni L. Griffin is Professor and Director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, and also maintains an active urban planning consulting practice, Urban Planning and Design for the American City. Toni has also held senior leadership positions Planning and Community Development, Newark, New Jersey; Deputy Director, DC Office of Planning and Associate Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Ms. Griffin received a Bachelor's of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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- Director of Center for Community - Engaged Design, UNC Greensboro
Ursula Hartig holds a Master in Architecture (Diplom Ingenieur) from the Technische Universität Berlin. She is a research fellow at the Department of Architecture, TU Berlin, and founder of CoCoon, a sector for intercultural and interdisciplinary teaching, research, and practice in the field of build environment. Since 2000 she has been project manager and director of TU Berlin‘s DesignBuild Studios including planning, realisation, and documentation of buildings and environments in Mexico and Afghanistan. Ursula initiates and directs the research-consortium European DesignBuild Knowledge Network in cooperation with the habitat unit, developing the dbXchange.eu web-platform.
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- Professor of Architecture in the Department
Vladimir Krstic is a Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University where he has been teaching since 1988. Currently he is the Director of the Kansas City Design Center, a joint Kansas State University and University of Kansas urban design program based in the downtown Kansas City. The KCDC program center on service-learning approach and under his leadership has developed a series of collaborative urban design projects that focus critical redevelopment issues of the civic community. He has taught and lectured nationally and internationally and his teaching and research are focused on urban and architectural design and design theory. Professor Krstic is one of the leading experts on Japanese Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism and has extensively published on the subject. Parallel to his academic work he is also involved in architectural practice as a design consultant with BNIM Architects.
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- Architect
- Principal, Spackman Mossop Michaels
Wes Michaels, Principal, Spackman Mossop Michaels. Wes is a licensed landscape architect with over 15 years of professional experience and a LEED Certified Professional. Wes has worked on a diverse range of projects from sustainable campus design to urban waterfronts on a national and international scale. His current work focuses on the interplay between culture and the environment in parks, streets and urban open space networks. He has taught at LSU and Auburn University and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2009. His book ‘Digital Representation in Landscape Architecture' was published by Wiley Press in 2010. Wes holds an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Georgia and a master's degree from Harvard University.
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- Co - Founder & President of Green Coast Enterprises
William Bradshaw, Co-Founder & President of Green Coast Enterprises. Prior to founding Green Coast, he helped plan and/or develop over $150 million in projects in North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, and Massachusetts. For nearly three years, he served as the Organizational Director of the Davidson Housing Coalition, a non-profit affordable housing developer based in Davidson, North Carolina.Will also teaches real estate development at the Tulane University School of Architecture. Will holds a Ph.D. in Regional and Urban Economics and Sustainable Community Development, Masters Degrees in City Planning and Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and degrees in Physics and Cross-Cultural Studies from Davidson College.
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- Executive Director of Des Moines Social Club
Zachary Mannheimer: is the Executive Director of Des Moines Social Club, an arts and educational non-profit focused on the retention and recruitment of young people through unprecedented community engagement. Since its opening in 2009, DMSC has hosted over 1000 art-related events and seen over 200,000 patrons. Zachary has taught at Central College and Wagner College and has articles and essays published in: The New York Theater Review and American Theater Magazine. His theatrical work and DMSC have been featured in Time Magazine, USA Today, and The New York Times to name a few. Zachary also co-owns and operates Proof Restaurant in downtown's Gateway District. He holds a dual BA in Theater Arts and Philosophy from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.