My experience as an entrepreneur has manipulated the lens through which I view the built environment and how we move within it. For the last ten years, I have been working at the level of micro-mobility, specifically human-powered vehicles and community, establishing a neighborhood bike shop/community space. The human-powered vehicle is a small but integral detail in discussing infrastructure, energy consumption, and quality of life. The human-powered vehicle scale creates space for communities to come together through familiar but equitable environments.
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Architecture, Alternate Transit Infrastructure, Community Investment
Teaching
courses taught
ENVD 1010 - Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design
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Fall 2023
Introduces students to concepts and techniques related to the design of products at a human scale. In an immersive project-based studio environment students develop the foundation of design communication and thinking through a series of hands-on projects with physical outcomes. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1010, Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design is taken the first 7-weeks of the semester, followed by ENVD 1020, Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture, taken in the second 7-weeks of the semester, along with ENVD 1002, Technology 1: Applications for Environmental Design, a 14-week class that is taught alongside the two 7-week studios.
ENVD 1040 - Studio 1: Introduction to Sustainable Planning and Urban Design
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Spring 2025
Explores concepts and strategies related to urban planning and design. Students collaboratively develop a design solution to a small-scale problem within an urban fabric using basic skills of analysis and design iteration. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1040, Studio 1: Introduction to Sustainable Planning and Urban Design, an 8-week class which is taken in the second half of the first semester. ENVD 1030, Studio 1: Introduction to Landscape Architecture, taken during the first 8-weeks of the semester, and ENVD 1012, Technology 2: Visual Communications, a 16-week class that is taught alongside the two 8-week studios.
ENVD 1110 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Environmental Design 1
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Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Explores the core principles shared across environmental design disciplines, including Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Product Design, and Sustainable Planning and Urban Design. Through a multidisciplinary studio approach, students engage in spatial problem-solving, sustainable design strategies, peer-to-peer collaboration, and design thinking. Hands-on projects challenge students to apply foundational tools and methods to real-world challenges, considering social, environmental, and cultural impacts in both built and natural environments.�Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1110, Studio 2: Fundamentals of Environmental Design 1, taken the first 7-weeks of the semester, followed by ENVD 1120, Studio 2: Fundamentals of Design 2, taken in the second 7-weeks of the semester, along with ENVD 1022, Technology 3: Intermediate Applications for Environmental Design, a 14-week class that is taught alongside the two 7-week studios.
ENVD 1130 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture
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Fall 2023
Building on skills learned from the introductory studio, this course expands the skills and knowledge needed for the practice of landscape architecture. With a focus on resilient design and an exploration through multiple scales, students design ecological systems in an urban context.
ENVD 1140 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Planning and Urban Design
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Fall 2022
Through a small-scale urban planning and design project, students explore solutions to challenges in dynamic urban systems. Builds on knowledge and skills gained in the introductory studios to explore the human and environmental dimensions of intertwined systems within the built environment.
ENVD 3100 - ENVD Interdisciplinary Design Studio
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Explores a sequence of investigations that lead to the development of design concepts for critical evaluation and discussion. Students analyze intermediate to advanced design practices that are common to the disciplines of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and product design through an interdisciplinary design project.
ENVD 4100 - Advanced Design Lab 1
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Spring 2026
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
ENVD 4979 - Honors Thesis
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Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Working with an advisor, students prepare, complete, and defend a research-based honors thesis project, in an area of Environmental Design. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours.
EPOD 2004 - History and Theory of Environmental Products of Design
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Explores the chronology of product design and how it has shaped our engagement with the everyday context. The course will explore impactful precedents and the design thoughts behind them. Surveys advances in production and material technologies that have propelled key product designs from regional exclusivity to global access. Investigate product design�s influence on cultural adaptations. Class discussions will give space to think critically about product design intent and perceived successes. Recommended corequisite: EPOD 2100.
EPOD 3100 - Studio 2: Intermediate Environmental Products of Design
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Introduces students to emerging technologies and techniques in digital fabrication and design through a project-based studio environment. Students will be asked to develop design solutions that benefit humanity through material investigations, cradle-to-cradle methodology, and more advanced methods in design optimization. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Recommended corequisite: EPOD 3101.
