remaking education - design exhibit

fall 2018

part of a team of students creating an interactive exhibit -ideation to facilitation- to educate on the design process in education

Remaking Education Website

Olin College was a sponsor of "Remaking Education" a conference for educators from all over the world, at the Paramount Center in Boston, MA. Worked with professors and other students to co-design, fabricate and facilitate interactive sessions of Design, Dissent and Deepen. Worked on the the design space team, co-designing the scribbler activity, fabricating tables and organization boxes with cardboard, constructing the space, and facilitating the activity. The goal of this space was to teach the design experience through "learning by doing" in order to help shift the education
                            system.

tell the story of what you make

fall 2020

practicing design skills including critique, Adobe tools, and developing the design eye

Through this project-based course I was able to develop many of my design skills. From projects of type portraits to creating anti-binge drinking posters, the projects were created using the Adobe suite and for many with inspiration from existing designers. The course focusing on see, find, then make to answer fundamental design questions: 

1) Should we do this?
2) What is the message?
3) Who is the audience?

4) Who else is doing this?
5) What is the concept?
6) What are the elements?
7) How is it organized?

user oriented collaborative design

spring 2019

how can we address the societal challenges for blacksmiths using design?

In the context of a U.O.C.D process and classroom, on a team of four students, I was able to practice design and user research skills and produce a proposal for a film to help address the cultural obstacles for blacksmiths. We were driven to address the expressed issues of lack of diversity, lack of recognition and awareness, and prevalence of damaging stereotypes. This idea was fleshed out with the close involvement of users, allowing them to guide the design process of what the film would look like while building skills in the Adobe suite and rapid prototyping personally.