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(a)vocation *
more de zein
I can provide and/or create case studies for particular projects of interest upon request. The intent of this iteration of my personal portfolio website is to act as an overview of the work I've done and the work I'm doing. As such, my intent is to present a synopsis of my skill-set and experience so that interested parties can reach out to me to dive deeper into particular types of work + projects I've engaged in.
* (a)vocation is a nod to my desire "to unite my avocation and my vocation as my two eyes make one in sight." — Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
Adam Zeiner _ a very curious human based in Austin, TX and available in a lot of places online
( ⛰️moving → Asheville, NC end of August ⛰️)
i'm a strategic designer, facilitator, and organizer focused on socially created "soft" systems, networks*, integrating futures literacy into design practice, information architecture + visualization, and engaging w/ intimate and leff formal communities of practice
* "Like organisms, social systems contain intricate networks of feedback processes, both self reinforcing (positive) and self-correcting (negative) loops.However, studies show that people recognize few feedbacks; rather, people usually think in short, causal chains, tend to assume each effect has a single cause, and often cease their search for explanations when the first sufficient cause is found." — John D. Sterman, Learning from Evidence in a Complex World
dezein _ the persistent practice of considered creation, facilitation, and organization
and also a moniker i like to use online for myself and for my independent studio practice → dezein.studio, LLC
for the time being super.so doesn't seem to be able to render my glitched GIF in browser, so I made a few fun, but static, remixes of my original PhotoMosh GIF in Figma
^ ~ image glitched using PhotoMosh
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[Prefix TBD] Designer → Design Institute for Health
a radical collaboration between Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin
Founding Board Member → Design Futures Initiative
a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization
Chasing literal waterfalls → in and around western North Carolina
w/ Taryn and our 2 of our 3 dogs; Archie + Django, but not Toby bc he's too old and small
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formerly:
Lead Organizer → Speculative Futures Austin
focus on Design-oriented Futures programming and Futures-oriented Design programming
Founding Member → vurv.co
an avocational tech-based arts collective turned intimate community, sometimes of practice and sometimes not
Continued Learning Director → fresh2design
Led the #Advance pillar of the organization which encompassed most educational programming
Design Partner → WholeSplit and Tapr
both start up ventures are now defunct, but served as invaluable learning experiences