Faculty Teaching Development Awards

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.