News, talks, and events

• “Shining ‘daylight’ on the Chesapeake Bay’s buried streams”
  (Chesapeake Bay Journal, July 2023)
• “D.C.’s unique history provides a bit of extra security from sea level rise”
  (NPR Weekend Edition, Aug. 2022)
• CHRS Preservation Cafe: Buried Streams, Jan. 2022
• Lost Streams of D.C.: A Preview Bike Tour, Nov. 2021
• “70% Of D.C.’s Streams Have Disappeared. Where Did They Go?”
  (WAMU, Aug. 2021)
• The Details Make the Map: Design Principles for Cartography (TUgis 2021)

Classes

• Typography I, GDES-210, fall 2023
• Digital and Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2023
• Digital and Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, fall 2023

About me

I’m a designer, developer, and design educator based in Washington, D.C. I teach in the graphic design program at American University, offering classes that integrate culture, code, and form. I’m interested in place-based, participatory education, and in using products of design—maps, images, interactive systems, and in-person events—to help us imagine landscapes, past and future.

Find me on Twitter (@imagineterrain)
or Bluesky (@imagineterrain.bsky.social).

Current/recent projects

• The lost streams project looks at D.C.’s shifting shorelines and buried streams.
• Knowledge Commons DC is a free school offering classes all over the city.

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