Design for Sustainability

1998

Author, "Designing Sustainable Packaging;" Facilitator for Designer's Accord Global Summit on Sustainability and Education; President and Co-founder, Emergent Structures; Invited Contributor to Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Innovation; Co-author of the Design for Sustainability masters degree at SCAD; Eco-entrepreneur and owner of SeaBob SurfWear; Founder and Chair of Design Ethos: Vision Reconsidered, a bi-annual conference on design, sustainability and social innovation; Co-author of the Center for Collaborative Learning Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Teaching at SCAD; Founding member of the Eco-Practices and Sustainability Council at SCAD

Riding my bicycle from New York City to San Francisco.

Graduate of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership; Nomination Committee Member for Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards; Selection Committee for the Gulfstream Navigator Award; AIGA Cause/Affect, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, New Voice Fiction Award, Nantucket Writing Award in Fiction, Pushcart Prize nomination, Sandstone Prize in Fiction finalist

DESIS / Design for Sustainability and Social Innovation, U.S. Green Building Council (former Georgia state board member); Chatham Environmental Forum; Emergent Structures (president and co-founder); AIGA; Healthy Savannah

• "Designing Sustainable Packaging," Laurence King LTD
• "Creative Solutions for Unusual Projects," HOW Design Books
• The RIT Hale Ethics Series, Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Design Victoria's Sustainable Packaging Seminar, Keynote Address, Melbourne, Australia
• The W.M. Keck Initiative on Leadership Across the Liberal Arts Curriculum, Keynote Address, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond
• Young Creators for Better Life and Better City Conference, Presenter, Shanghai, China
• EcoEdge2: The Urgent Design Challenge in Building Sustainable Cities Conference, Presenter, Melbourne, Australia
• The Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Presenter, Chennai, India
• Insight & Inquiry: Distinguished Voices Lecture Series, Lecturer, University of North Florida

"Witnessing those moments when students are struck by a sudden ability within themselves to glimpse into the complexities of life in a way that provides them with some new understanding. Such moments can be earth-shaking, but they can also be modest - small epiphanies that help them make sense of their curiosities, their motivations, their surroundings and their future. And the professor's role might be more geared toward the cultivation of a relatively consistent rhythm of the modest moments, with the hope that the doors to the larger ones are nudged wider and wider."

• SUST 704 Applied Theories in Sustainability
• SUST 713 Interdisciplinary Studio I
• SUST 725 Design Leadership and Environmental Justice
• SUST 748 Design for Sustainability M.A. Final Project
• SUST 304 Theories and Methods in Sustainability
• DMGT 740 Sustainable Practices in Design
• GRDS 386 Package Design
• GRDS 400 Graphic Design Studio II
• GRDS 726 The Role of Design in Social Awareness
• GRDS 748 Graphic Design M.A. Final Project
• GRDS 759 Print Studio II
• GRDS 760 Poster Design
• GRDS 773 Portfolio Design
• GRDS 791 Graphic Design M.F.A. Thesis

"There are many ways of presenting a vision of a more equitable future. Art, design, writing and facilitating are all creative acts that require determination and humility, and they all have the potential to create that vision in meaningful ways. Applying your creativity for a purpose bigger than yourself doesn't have to be a chore, or a burden, or too serious or controversial. In fact, when creativity springs from such a well, it sets demands upon the individual that elicit a sense, not of dread or obligation, but of wonder within that realm of engagement. Wonder and the desire for a world with more equality are not incompatible."

emergentstructures.com

1995

Photography instructor, Cape Fear Technical College, Wilmington, North Carolina; editor/manager of communications for international architectural associations, Berne, Switzerland; planner/architect, Suter + Suter International Consultant Corporation, Basel, Zurich, and Berne, Switzerland; architectural intern, F. Carter Williams Architects, P.A., Raleigh, North Carolina; architectural intern, National Park Service Internship Program, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; architectural intern and project renderer, Suter + Suter International Consultant Corporation, Basel, Switzerland; photographer/owner of photography studio, Wilmington, North Carolina

"The relationships that have grown out of the work done in the Gulf Coast communities since 2005-when Hurricane Katrina destroyed buildings, neighborhoods and whole towns-have contributed meaning and lifelong value to the architecture, interior design, historic preservation and industrial design students who have accompanied me on annual visits to the region affected. Students have played significant roles in the recovery and rebuilding processes, working very closely with various neighborhood associations and community leaders, as well as individuals who were in urgent need of design services such as housing, community centers, schools, church fellowship halls and more. The integration of SCAD design students into the vast network of organizations who are engaged in the rebuilding of these communities has been especially rewarding and has led to a number of employment opportunities for graduates."

Vulcan Excellence in Teaching award; nominated for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement and Support of Education's U.S. Professor of the Year Award; AIAS Most Valuable Foundations Teacher Award; AIAS Most Valuable Teacher Award; AIAS national award for community service project, "ArchiPetTure"

U.S. Green Building Council, Savannah chapter; American Institute of Architects; Georgia Historical Society; Christ Church-Savannah Building Committee

• Hurricane Katrina Relief Design Studios, exhibited in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Eight student works published in "Architectural Drawing: a Visual Compendium of Types and Methods," Rendow Yow, 2007

"For teaching, I am inspired by every great teacher I have had in my past. For art, by every artist, known and unknown, whose work I have seen, touched, tasted, felt and experienced. For design, by nature."

• ARCH 301 Architecture Design Studio I
• ARCH 302 Architecture Design Studio II
• ARCH 303 Architecture Design Studio III
• ARCH 404 Architecture Design Studio IV
• ARCH 485 Undergraduate Independent Study
• ARCH 707 Architecture Design Studio VII
• ARCH 708 Architecture Design Studio VIII
• ARCH 709 Architecture Design Studio IX
• DRAW 115 Graphics for the Building Arts
• DSGN 223 Architectural Fundamentals Studio I

2005

Initiator, lead faculty author and program coordinator of the interdisciplinary design for sustainability master's and minor program until Fall 2010; developed new industrial design class on sensory awareness; founded SCAD Sustainability Council; taught at Ohio State University and at the University of Applied Sciences Postdam in Germany; worked in research and development department at the VisionWorks division of Lear Corp. in Southfield, Michigan, developing concepts that incorporated new technologies for passenger cars; freelance designer; designer with iDS Hamburg, developing interior designs for the Fairchild Dornier 728 jet

Founder, SCAD Sustainability Council; initiator and lead faculty author of design for sustainability degree program until Fall 2010

Presentations

• "The Diffusion of Sustainability Through Design," Greening of the Campus VIII, Ball State University, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 2009
• "Sustainability in Art and Design," at the Georgia Science Teacher Association conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 2009
• "Breaking Sustainability Ground In Art and Design," Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference: "Working Together for Sustainability, on Campus and Beyond," Raleigh, North Carolina, November 2008
• Lecture on sustainability at the department of industrial, interior and visual communications design, Ohio State University, April 2007

"Diffusing the capabilities of design beyond its traditional perception."

• IDUS 100 Introduction to Industrial Design
• IDUS 215 Contextual Research Methods
• IDUS 221 Human Factors in Industrial Design
• IDUS 316 Portfolio and Résumé Development
• IDUS 321 Industrial Design in the Marketplace
• IDUS 355 Sensory Awareness
• IDUS 401 Prototype Project Conceptualization
• IDUS 402 Prototype Project Construction
• IDUS 421 Commercial Practices for Industrial Design
• IDUS 431 Industrial Design Senior Studio
• IDUS 490 Special Topics in Industrial Design
• IDUS 713 Industrial Design Studio I
• IDUS 718 Industrial Design Studio II
• IDUS 748 Industrial Design M.A. Final Project
• IDUS 770 Professional Practices in Industrial Design
• IDUS 790 Industrial Design M.F.A. Thesis
• SUST 384 Design for Sustainability
• SUST 713 Interdisciplinary Studio I
• SUST 748 Design for Sustainability M.A. Final Project
• DMGT 720 Design Innovation Development and Marketing Strategies
• DMGT 748 Design Management M.A. Final Project

"There are no boundaries for learning."