What is my Design Ethos?

As a designer, I hold firm in the principle that there is no such thing as designing in a void. To ignore the social, political, ecological, or even economical concerns of what you create is to disservice your ability to critically analyze, prioritize, and problem solve. It is also critical to your audience that will be interacting with your design and will be ultimately affected by it that you consider each system that is interacting with your design.

Similarly, I strongly believe in the importance of community engagement with a project. I think it’s crucial not only from a business standpoint of encouraging the potential for future projects, but from an ethical responsibility to acknowledge and interact with the people that you are designing for and their needs and wants.

Environmentally, I will always be an advocate for native planting interventions, preservative action, and promoting education of the whats, whys, and hows behind ecological remediation at every level from a person that rent’s their home and wants to make an impact to the global efforts that are made to combat overarching concerns such as climate change, deforestation, etc. I hope to show people through my designs that conservation and preservation do not mean removing people from crucial greenspaces or these massive land projects far from the urban complex, but these concepts can mean bringing more people safely into these greenspaces and can be small fractions of an acre projects that occur within a busy downtown area.