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Halftone Dissonance
(2022-06-08)
This thesis aims to induce a public conversation in the public sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic public health policies and social isolation altered the way people interact, while consumer culture has increased and shifted. ...
Liquid Pedagogy
(2021-05-20)
Liquid Pedagogy is a critical reflection on pedagogy and the discipline of architecture which historically is shaped by but also has shaped the learning spaces in architecture schools. The thesis is materialized in a design ...
Biologically inspired compliant building façade systems with tunable heat transfer capabilities
(2023-02-06)
Energy consumption for building thermoregulation is a major contributor to the environmental impact of
our built environment. Building envelope systems that actively tune their heat transfer rate in response to
environmental ...
THOSE PREGNANT IMAGES I WOULD LIKE TO BRING BACK TO CHINA
(2021-02-09)
Since modernity, the term “atlas” has garnered a meaning beyond an accumulation of maps, referring also to the practice of collecting images. Aby Warburg collected 971 images in his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne to create a model ...
Throwing Shade: Heatwaves, Emergency Preparedness, and Produced Risk
(2021-05-21)
Throwing Shade introduces a series of public cooling landscapes designed to offer relief both daily and in emergencies. Through considering networks of infrastructure and public acupuncture, the design proposes heat escapes ...
Exploitive By Design: Warning Signs From the Northwest Amazon
(2021-05-19)
This body of work concerns the impact of imposed capital and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries’ “Rubber Boom” and today’s 21st-century tourism industry in Iquitos, Peru, because there are parallels in the effects ...
Unpaving Paradise : Envisioning a Healthy Hialeah
(2021-05-18)
Hialeah is a city of “unhealthy” urban character in terms of green coverage, economic opportunity, and medical care; however, its strong sense of community and interpersonal “weak ties” could help overcome these characteristics ...
Dear GSD
(2021-05-18)
My motivation for writing this thesis is my passion for using front-end design techniques to construct social justice in the digital domain and find solutions for particular design problems.
This thesis proposes a digital ...
Form Transition: Decarbonization Beyond Settler Modernity
(2021-06-30)
Recent discourse about climate change and the spotlight it has put on global energy systems have raised calls for new relationships to energy under a variety of open-ended terms: decarbonization, energy transition, green ...
Supply Chain as a Design Medium: The Case of West African Cocoa
(2022-06-08)
In this master’s level thesis, I look at supply chains as a medium for design and examine the concept of supply chain design within global political economy. Focusing on cocoa grown and harvested in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, ...