Indigenous architects
Architectural Digest outlines how Institute Professor Wanda Dalla Costa is laying down the groundwork for the next generation of Indigenous architects. Read the article.
Highlights from 2022-23
Cooling public places
The Design School alum Mansour Alhazmi and architecture master’s degree student Gina Fagilarone were part of an ASU team conducting research in collaboration with building materials and adhesives company 3M and the City of Phoenix to study the potential to cool airsheds, pedestrians and the global climate by making surfaces more reflective at RJ Dog Park. Learn more about the research.
Carbon-negative consumer products
Charlotte McCurdy, assistant professor of industrial design, produces carbon-negative consumer products, including raincoats made of algae that could be the future of sustainable fashion. Read more.
Habitat for Humanity
Cheri Jacobs, assistant teaching professor of interior design, talks about The Design School’s partnership with Habitat for Humanity in an episode of the video podcast series “Habitat Now!”
Student design competition
Madeline Magee, a senior in The Design School, won the Steelcase NEXT Student Design Competition. Magee and her classmate Chloe Cobb, who was a semifinalist, both donated their winnings toward a scholarship in the interior design program. Learn more about Magee’s work.
Cooling public places photo by Samantha Chow.
Carbon-negative consumer products photo by Charlie Leight.
Student design competition images courtesy of Madeline Magee.