❋
Designer, maker, and researcher exploring the role of pleasure in systems under transformation
Why do individuals connect with some objects and experiences more than others? How do certain materials become desirable with time, while others elicit disgust? What does it all have to do with collective health and wellbeing? Working at the intersection of desire and sustainability, I interrogate these interdisciplinary questions through design research, strategy, and teaching - inspiring others to create a future so desirable that a regenerative world is impossible to resist.
❋ Valorization of wasteExamining luxury and consumer taste through the lens of ugly, forgotten, and underappreciated materials and products.
❋ Product designPrototyping as an inflection point for building value into underestimated and overlooked commodity goods.
❋ Design for mass-manufactureTheorizing production processes as a reflection of a society’s value system through access to pleasurable experiences.
❋ Design educationPreparing designers to use ecosystem thinking to create bespoke, responsible, and dignified products, systems, and services in concert with their end users.
❋ Consumer studiesThe relationship between a societal connection to pleasure and the ability to contribute to sustainable consumption.
❋ Civic innovationExamining the process of hyper-local problem-solving for decentralized and bespoke innovations in civic settings.