I’m excited and honored to be a part of an incredible faculty for Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s groundbreaking Sustainable Design online Master’s program. It’s a very unique and hands on 2-year degree, applying various aspects of Biomimicry, systems thinking, the Natural Step framework, product systems innovation, and creative leadership (amongst many other things). My role is to [...]
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Here’s the lowdown… I turned the big three-oh the other day and have found myself in a pretty deep state of reflection ever since. It turns out the rumour was true, that transitioning into a new decade sure enough generates a fair share of personal analysis. In an attempt to capture some of these thoughts, [...]
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Greets y’all! I am excited to introduce to you a fun li’l project I’m developing called Transformation Toolbox. The idea has been buzzing around in my headspace for some time now, and I’ve came to a point where I’d like to start breathing some life into it. So the basic premise is this: Design a [...]
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I recently finished up a pretty significant research project on the concept of rooftop agriculture. Myself and a couple comrades in Sweden jumped head first into the nascent idea of growing food on top of buildings and came up with some pretty exciting conclusions. As a product of our research, I designed and co-authored the [...]
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In 2003, the American Dialect Society awarded ‘flexitarian’ as the year’s most useful word… this is interesting, considering that perhaps 7 people actually know what it is! Well, I recently became the 8th and will help to push this figure into double digits… a flexitarian is a “vegetarian who occasionally eats meat”… Yes, confusing and [...]
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