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Studio instructor, 2nd-year B.Architecture Design Studio, Spring 2021

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Online Seminar Instructor, Designing for Sustainability: Architecture and the SDG's

Fall 2020, elective, 3-credit seminar, 17 students.

Fully online seminar designed to introduce students to theories and practices of sustainable design through the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The overarching goal of the course was to help students develop as critical designers and the complexity of sustainability.

The class was organized around readings, videos, and forum reflections to help students explore key sustainability topics.

Each week students were asked to response to collection of prompts and produce a written or graphic response.

Studio Instructor, Which Way to the Future? Summer 2020

required, 5-credit studio, 9 students.

fully synchronized-online 4th year architecture studio focused on the covid19 crisis. Using Bruno Latour "Where to land after the pandemic?” the students investigated how can design help enable a sustainable, low-carbon, post-pandemic world. Each student focused on their isolation location in the NJ-NY region. The studio final presentation was to members of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production COVID19 and Sustainability Transitions Project.

Paula Gonsalez

Studio Instructor, Newark Which way Forward, Fall 2019

With Georgeen Theodore

The design studio, led by Georgeen Theodor, Newark Which Way Forward? Urban frameworks and future scenarios for Newark’s downtown, part of the Master of Infrastructure Planning program with collaboration with the city of Newark Planning and Zoning Department.

The studio worked to create a holistic urban framework coupled with imagined future scenarios for Newark’s downtown. The centerpiece of these efforts was a 3D-printed, 5’x9’ scale model of Newark’s downtown core consisting of 130 removable “blocks.” The model was used as a tool for viewing proposed models of different future scenarios, as well as framework data itself, which was projected from above onto the model. The studio culminated with a public presentation to NJIT and city officials, and the model will be used by the city to evaluate development proposals for the downtown.

The project is showcased in the Urban category of The S.A.A.M.A. exhibit. A collaborative design exhibition that focuses on architecture student model work in North America reviewed by the Curatorial Practices Team at KSU-Arch (Kennesaw State University).

My teaching role in the studio included leading the students on the digital development of the model and completion of a 3D printed model of downtown Newark.