CLIENT: Seattle Design Festival
INDUSTRY: Civic Engagement
ROLE: Owner, Tellous / Faculty, University of Washington
LOCATION: Seattle
Having a voice in a cities growth should be an easy process in a true democracy. Instead, it can be a confusing and discouraging process, with engagement obtacles not often affording success. My studio Tellous sponsors and leads interdisciplinary teams of students from the University of Washington to use design thinking to boost civic engagement.
Tellous organized and sponsored a multidisciplinary group of students across UW’s arts, design, psychology, and engineering majors to look at the challenge of displacement within vulnerable populations as a result of Seattle’s housing shortage. I led the students on a 2 month exploration of participatory design and we conducted user research with both the neighborhood property owners and those experiencing homelessness across Seattle. Our processes and outcomes garnered interest and meetings with leadership at both the Seattle City Club and the Gates Foundation.
Press: Article on our work and exhibit
INDUSTRY: Civic Engagement
ROLE: Owner, Tellous / Faculty, University of Washington
LOCATION: Seattle
Having a voice in a cities growth should be an easy process in a true democracy. Instead, it can be a confusing and discouraging process, with engagement obtacles not often affording success. My studio Tellous sponsors and leads interdisciplinary teams of students from the University of Washington to use design thinking to boost civic engagement.
Tellous organized and sponsored a multidisciplinary group of students across UW’s arts, design, psychology, and engineering majors to look at the challenge of displacement within vulnerable populations as a result of Seattle’s housing shortage. I led the students on a 2 month exploration of participatory design and we conducted user research with both the neighborhood property owners and those experiencing homelessness across Seattle. Our processes and outcomes garnered interest and meetings with leadership at both the Seattle City Club and the Gates Foundation.
Press: Article on our work and exhibit