Design and innovation workshops from Fortune 500 companies to startups, from conferences to community organizations
mOb
Part of mOb’s week-long residency program, I facilitated a workshop for graphic design, interior design, and fashion design students at Virginia Commonwealth University addressing how Richmond could become more resilience in the face of climate change.
Richmond, VA
October 2019
Big Hemp
Facilitated a two-week Project M session with John Bielenberg.
After research, interviews, and ideation, the group created Big Hemp, a campaign creating a demand to build infrastructure for Montana-grown hemp.
Big Hemp
@wearebighemp
Bozeman, MT
August 2019
XBOW Design Workshop
Helping students from Babson, Olin, and Wellesley colleges promote the new Weissman Foundry facilities to the broader student body.
Wellesley, MA
March 2019
Mondragon University
Teaching the design thinking process to visiting students working on their startups while attending Mondragon University, a non-profit cooperative private school in the Basque Country.
San Francisco, CA
Spring 2014 – Spring 2018
Frontier
Helping design educators think wrong about the future of design education.
AIGA’s Design Education: Frontier
Bozeman, MT
October 2016
Desgn.it
Facilitated Elefant Design’s “Desgn.it”, their annual two-day workshop that partners SF Bay Area designers with non-profits to help promote their efforts to create positive impact in their communities.
Elefint Designs
Lake Tahoe, CA
February 2016
MiddCORE
Part of MiddCORE, a mentor-driven, experiential learning program that builds skills, creates opportunities, and expands networks for tomorrow’s leaders and innovators.
MiddCORE
Sierra Nevada College, June 2014
Middlebury College, January 2015
GOOD SF
As the GOOD SF Local Leader, I co-created engagements and opportunities that brought locals together to build relationships and communities as well as learn ways of contributing back to the San Francisco Bay Area.
good.is
San Francisco, CA
Spring 2013 – Spring 2016
A Better World by Design
Led a number of workshops from 2009–2015, at a Better World by Design in Providence, RI.
For three years, I was part of the steering committee, helping upcoming BWxD board members on how to “think wrong” in creating the next conference.
betterworldxdesign.com
Co-facilitators; Ben Gaydos,
Kawandeep Virdee, Karen Stein Shanley
Providence, RI
2009–2015
SXSW EDU
Showing educators how to create community based projects within their schools.
Co-facilitated with David Bill
Austin, TX
March 2015
AIGA West Michigan
Developing ways to communicate news, needs, resources and events across various west Michigan cities.
westmichigan.aiga.org
Grand Rapids, MI
March 2012
Design Ethos @ SCAD
Working with local and national designers, civic leaders, and SCAD students to engage with local residents of Waters Avenue to transform a stock of decrepit buildings into a source of wealth, well-being, renewal and pride.
Co-Facilitators: Mike Weikert, Liz Ogbu
Savannah, GA
April 2012
B.O.M.B.
During a 5-day Project M blitz, a group of Lesley/AIB graphic design students focused on re-imagining the Waterfall Arts Fallout Shelter after water flooded the basement. The students came up with the B.O.M.B. campaign to raise awareness and ask for help from locals to offer resources, time, tools, and money to get the Fallout shelter up and running again.
Co-facilitated with Ben Gaydos
Belfast, ME
March 2012
[Hello, Houston]
Engaged with the local IDSA chapter to promote the unique and special places in and around Houston to encourage locals to reconnect with their city.
The Making Of video
Houston, TX
April 2012
Celebrate Global Warming
A record high of 81° on March 22, 2012 in Belfast, Maine inspired Project M: North to make some fun in the sun and “celebrate global warming.”
Belfast, ME
March 2012
RoamRVA
An intensive Project M: 48-hour Blitz, eight students from the VCU GDES department developed Roam RVA, a call to action, to venture into your environment and explore new places.
Co-facilitated with Brian W. Jones
November 2010
Richmond, VA
I learned the art of facilitation at Future Partners (now Solve/Next), SMALLIFY, and Project M
A number of other workshops
+ AIGA’s Compostmodern
+ Dalai Lama Fellows
+ Global Leadership Lab
+ Lesley/Art Institute of Boston
+ Not For Sale
+ SHOP CLASS RVA
+ Tidewater Community College's Visual Art Center
… and many others
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