EDUCATION
PhD in Engineering, Applied Science, 2019 SMU, Dallas, USA
“GIS Mapping as a Catalyst for Creative Site Design in Engineering Education”
(additional studies towards PhD) Dept. History & Theory of Arch, 2002 AA, London, UK
“Scaling Territories: The Operation of Landscape Devices In the Urban Field”
RIBA Part III, 1998 Architectural Association, London UK
MA Dip. Arch. RIBA Part II, 1993 Cambridge University, UK
(visiting. Scholar), 1992 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA
BA Hons in Architecture (First Class), 1990 Cambridge University, UK
BA Theatre Design (cum laude), 1987 Williams College, USA
1983 Walnut Hill School of the Performing Arts, Boston
1982 Maru a Pula Secondary School, Gaborone, Botswana
PROFESSIONAL LICENSE & AFFILIATIONS
LEED AP, Accredited Professional, USGBC, since 2009
RIBA, Licensed Architect, Royal Institute of British Architects, (RIBA: 6392203), ARB 1984 (ARB: 062528K), 1998
AIA international associate, American Institute of Architects, 2001
LECTURES / CONFERENCE TALKS
2020 Presenter, Caruth Institute for Engineering Education, Research Talks, “Inspiring Site design through Geo-Spatial Card-Play”
2020 Speaker, City of Dallas GIS Day 2020 “NIMBY: Neighborhood Infrastructure in my Backyard: Research & community engagement through StoryMaps”
2020 Session Panelist, Impact Nights for Agents of a Climate-Smart Inclusive Economy, “Can sustainable design reduce costs, improve health and build resilience?”
2019 Invited Speaker, Caruth Institute for Engineering Education Fall Workshop “Rethinking Practices, Education & Engagement, Dallas TX. “Using GIS for Project-Based Learning and Community-Based Design Studies”
2019 The Download @ Lyle Series: Coffee |Connection |Conversation Fall Breakfast Lecture Series, SMU “Using Maps and Data to Teach Design Thinking”
2019 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference 2019 (LEES division) Tampa, Florida “Deep Observation: Geo-Spatial Mapping as a Strategy for Site-Engagement and Problem-Design”
2019 Panel moderator and Invited Symposium Commentator at Summary Session, EarthX Cities 2019, Dallas “Resilience: Planning for, responding to, and Recovering from Extreme Weather Events.”
2019 Invited speaker, 2019 Dallas Arboretum Food & Wine Festival “The Chef’s Garden: Roots on the Road” “How can Green be Greener? Better practices in a reusable world. Presented by EarthxTaste.
2019 Observed Design Charrette, invited participant and team presenter, The “Agenda for a New Dallas Summit”, On transportation infrastructure in Dallas’ Southwest Sector, Coalition for a New Dallas and D Magazine.
2018 ASEE Annual Conference 2018, Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED), Salt Lake City “Mapping as Design Thinking: Can GIS Help Engineering Students Approach Design?”
2018 ESRI Education Summit, GIS Creating Bridges, San Diego “From Ideas to Infrastructures: Creative Connections in South Dallas”
2018 Invited speaker Prism Panel Series, “Interdisciplinary Collaborations” SMU Libraries “Communication, Community and Site: Interdisciplinary Challenges in Project base Teaching”
2018 Introduction and host, DFW City Planners Forum, hosted by ULI, Harvard GIS and Hunt Institute SMU “Our Region and Opportunity”
2017 Urban Communication Foundation NCA Pre-Conference, SMU Dallas. “Participatory Action Mapping as Research”
2017 invited panel member at the Dallas Festival of Ideas, Dallas Conference Centre “Equity in the Physical City”
2017 “New Cities/ Future Ruins: Art, Urbanism & Power in the Western Sunbelt’ “On Maps”, exhibition talk, invited speaker as part of cartography curatorial team
2016 T3G ESRI Education Conference, invited participant, lighting talk: “Does Making Maps help engineers be more creative?”
2015 ‘Zooming Out to Zoom In’ panel at DFW Urban Summit, Invited speaker ‘Going Big with Small Steps”
2015 Nepal Earthquake organiser of group participation for Humanitarian Open Source Mapping, Hunt Institute SMU
2015 SMU dept Sociology; SMU dept Anthropology, GIS & Mapping, Guest Workshops
2014 Duke University, dept of African & African American Studies, Guest Lecture “Maps Revealing the Public, The City as Theatre”
2014 North Central Texas Council of Govt, Regional GIS Conference “Why teach GIS to Engineers? Infrastructure as Landscape”
2014 Lecture, Dallas City Hall GIS users’ group “Why teach GIS to Engineering Students? Cultural Overlaps in Vickery Meadows “
2013 E&H 3, Hunt Institute for Humanity &Engineering, SMU Water: Ripple Effects: Project manager, 1 week conference, water access, safety & distribution, particularly in disaster relief settings.
2013 E&H 3, Hunt Institute for Humanity &Engineering ‘The Water Tap’ Designer of living village.
2012 TEDxSMU 2012: ReTHink: invited speaker “Suspended on the inland Sea: re-thinking Dallas a Landscape of Poetry”
2012 bigBang! speaker, hosted by Dallas Social Venture Partners “Mapping Dallas as a landscape”
2010 Pechu-Kucha, Dallas Idea Week, public lecture event, Dallas Theatre “Ritoque”
2009 Two-day Workshop for DISD visual art students at the Dallas Museum of Flight, judge: P. Meadows. “Inhabiting the Uncertain”
2007 Dallas Architecture Forum Panel, a public lecture series. “On the Acts of Mapping: Landscape, Structure & Perception”
2005 Universidad Catolica Del Norte, Antofagasta, invited lecture series “Que es Paisaje?”
2005 disecciones 05, graduate school symposium, Universidad Catolica de Santiago, Chile, invited speaker “Imaginary Cities”
2004 The Terrain of Landscape and Architecture, juried Symposium, University of Newcastle, speaker at “The Moving Horizon'”
2004 Urban League, New York, Invited speaker and round table with A. Ponte and L. Pollak “Why Landscape within Architecture?”