Faculty Teaching Development Awards

Funding to build an Eco-conscious Fabric Library for students in existing and new courses to select and explore various eco-aware materials and products to incorporate into their designs.

Funding for guest speakers and technical workshops to train students in the Spring 2024 Landscape Architecture 402/502 Studio in incorporating the Ksat data from the USDA soil survey of St. Louis within their design work.

Funding for guest designers and experts in multilingual design as guest critics for the Spring 2024 course, Language Currents: Multilingual Typography. This course offers students fluent in a language other than English or those interested in multilingual design a chance to explore identity through typographic application.

Funding towards material costs and hiring a research assistant for the Spring 2024 course, Fields + Frames. This course partners students and community members from the Cortex Innovation district to create a set of temporary public artworks using ceramic 3D printing onsite at Cortex.

Purchasing materials to build innovative molds and concrete castings that will inform building enclosure systems in the Experimental Concrete Enclosures Studio course.

Funding for guest photographer and master black and white printing technician, Richard Boutwell, as artist-in-residence. In addition to advising students in highly technical modes of printing, Boutwell advised the process of personalizing the lab equipment and printing.

Bringing scholarly designers for lectures and workshops and publishing work from the Making History: a Graphic Design Studio. Students reviewed historical research methods, conducting self-guided projects that had the opportunity to be included in publication.

Funding for materials and specialized robotic equipment for the Intelligent Prefabrication seminar. This funding permitted students to access the materials and purchase time on the machines to build full-scale prototypes of their designs.

Purchase of a set of 6 DJI pocket osmo cameras for new video-based programming in existing and new photography courses.

Ongoing development of “You Are Here: St. Louis’ Racial History Through Sites and Stories,” a brand-new Sam Fox School course for spring 2021. The course is concerned with interrogating the complex history of race and racial injustice in St. Louis by means of site and story-based exploration.

Purchase of a 3D Potterbot Micro 9 3D ceramic printer for the spring 2021 course “Digital Ceramics,” which examines new possibilities for masonry and ceramics in architecture through computational design and digital fabrication.

Student access to equipment attuned to jewelry design for her new workshop “Body as Site / Jewelry as Architecture.” The workshop deals with contemporary issues, integrating feminist, critical race, queer, and media theory.

Purchase additional hardware, charging, and storage equipment to support the use of virtual reality technology in the first cohort of the course Sculpting Realities 2.0.

Develop and create new opportunities for the current Drone Photography class and build the foundations for future drone-related programming.

Purchase materials for students in the Concrete Enclosure Systems studio to build mockups of the constituent pieces of their proposed building enclosure systems at one-quarter of the real scale.

Participate in the LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch competition in Nevada, with a team of up to twelve students, two expert partners, and several institutional collaborations.

Production of student work and guest lecturers for the communication design major elective Design for Social Impact.

Development of the two-course sequence The Illustrated Periodical and Literatures of Drawing for the new MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture program.

Use of virtual reality technology in the new course Sculpting Realities.

Participation at the Sustainability in Fashion, Regent’s University London & International Textile and Apparel Association Conference.

Support his seminar The Unruly Cit, and travel to the IASTE conference in Portugal.

Support the spring 2018 seminar Expanding Skin.

Support the purchase of four projectors for time-based media classes.

Purchase of new technology for the class Alternative Displays.

Attendance and presentation at the 2017 EYEO Festival in Minneapolis.

Purchase of a 22” Cintiq HD to gain expertise for the classroom/studio.

Attendance at Dr. Iris Patten’s Leadership Summit in Tuscon, Arizona, and Dr. Patten’s subsequent workshop for students at Washington University.

Employment of a student research assistant to help leverage past studio content.

Research for the project Contemporary Urban Public Spaces_St. Louis City Chances, as well as a related workshop.

Support for the spring 2016 course Integrated Planting Design, which focused on the landscape ecology of the WashU campus.

Attendance at the 2015 International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference, where she attended sessions on sustainability and innovation in design education.

Purchase of materials to build design mockups for the spring 2016 studio High Performance Building Enclosure.

Implementation—including 3D printing for students—for the fall 2015 course Performance Enhancing, co-taught with Robin VerHage-Abrams, associate professor of fashion design.

Development of curated visual and bibliographic materials in digital format for use in teaching across multiple disciplines.

Attendance at the February 2015 ASHOKA Exchange conference and the spring 2015 course Design for Social Innovation.

Support for the spring 2015 studio PROTOLOGICS/Urgent Typologies.