I spend a good deal of time and energy designing, organizing, and facilitating workshops, symposia, participatory lessons and the like through my employers, on behalf of the Design Futures Initiative + Speculative Futures Austin, and for varied Design and Arts organizations in Austin and abroad.

I'm interested in live and remote speaking, facilitating, and advising opportunities at conferences, in academic settings, and as part of community events as my (a)vocational schedule allows.

Invited by my friend Phil Balagtas to be one of the guests on his webinar-format talk show ZTOPIA, where designers are invited to muse, speculate and poke at topics they’ve found on the internet. Each guest shares 2-3 articles to be discussed, mine are outlined on Notion.

Podcast Guest for ZTOPIA

5.08.20 _ virtually convened on Zoom

Invited by Tamie Glass as a guest lecturer for her graduate seminar 'This is Your Future: How Human Behavior Will Drive Design'.

Guest Lecture for ARI 350R | ARI 386M | ARC 386M Graduate Seminar

4.14.20 _ The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture _ Austin, TX

Invited to critique the primary artifacts of 3-4 students' Senior Capstone topics that will inform their work during the Exhibition section of their individual Capstone studies in the Spring '20 semester.

Guest Critic for DES374 Design Capstone Studio

12.9.19 _ The University of Texas at Austin School of Design & Creative Technology _ Austin, TX

I'm very excited to have been contacted by IRL @ MoHA, an artist-led incubator for creative experimentation with new technologies to design and facilitate a workshop on a topic of my choosing. I chose to focus on Network Mapping by way of adopting Beautiful Rising's Power Mapping methodology. I organized a workshop focused on mapping the local tech-arts ecosystem in Austin.

Workshop Design + Facilitation for IRL @ MoHA

9.25.19 _ MoHA _ Austin, TX

I applied for and was accepted into the Neo Rural Futures Summer School from Speculative EDU in Rome, Italy. I am incredibly grateful for the support from my employer that provided me the time and fiscal capital to attend this overseas event. NeoRural Futures is the summer school of the Speculative Edu research project, supported by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme.

Summer School Fellow

Rural region of focus: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone w/ Vera Fearns, Stef Silva, Andrea Cegarra, Greg Scott, Taifu Zheng, Polina Veidenbakh, Barbara Giorgi, and Arianna Forte

09.02.19 - 09.06.19 _ RUFA _ Rome, Italy

Invited by QWELL to be an advisor at the The Austin Outpost Pop-Up Design Competition. This Design Charette competition and the broader Austin Outpost initiative intend to design a remarkable and cost-effective portable LGBTQIA+ community center (Austin Outpost Pop-Up) that can easily travel to various locations around Austin.

Competition Jury for "Austin Outpost” Pop-Up LGBTQIA+ Community Center

06.22.19 _ Texas Society of Architects _ Austin, TX

Invited to be a judge at the 2019 BME Medical Device Design competition. The competition is challenge is to improve patient outcomes in the field of Geriatric medicine.

Competition Jury for Biomedical Engineering Society

04.27.19 _ UT Austin BME Building _ Austin, TX

Invited by the Director of the Center for Integrated Design, Gray Garmon, to be the guest lecturer for the Prototyping lesson of the Introduction to Integrated Design course.

Guest Lecture for Introduction to Integrated Design

02.14.19 _ UT COFA _ Austin, TX'

Invited to give a lightning talk to attendees at the Austin node of Processing Community Day on the process of leading the design of a generative identity for a conference.

Event Speaker; Lightning Talk for Processing Community Day @Austin

02.10.19 _ dadageek HQ _ Austin, TX

Invited to critique the primary artifacts of 5 students Senior Capstone topics that will inform their work during the Exhibition section of their individual Capstone studies in the Spring '19 semester.

Guest Critic for DES374 Design Capstone Studio 12.10.18 _ The University of Texas at Austin School of Design & Creative Technology _ Austin, TX

This month's Future In/Out is a conversation between Speculative Futures Ottawa and Speculative Futures Austin, Texas. Adam (chapter organizer of Speculative Futures Austin) and Luisa (chapter organizer of Speculative Futures Ottawa) will have a conversation on what inspired them to foster a futures community and why is it important to do so at a local level.

Event Speaker @ Future In/Out #2 11.14.18 _ Rebel.com Office _ Ottawa, ON Canada, remotely from Austin, TX

View presentation deck on Slideshare

An introduction to the nascent discipline of Speculative Design, explored in the context of an informal, participatory workshop employing the Ethnographic Experiential Futures (EFF) approach to Foresight.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

10.24.18 _ ACC _ Austin, TX for Austin Design Week 2018

11.08.18 _ Capital Factory _ Austin, TX

A lecture for the Fall 2018 ITD 390: DESIGN FOR HEALTH graduate course. Teaching 3rd year Medical Students what Ix, UX, and UI Design are, how they differ, how they relate, and how they relate to Health Care.

Lesson Design + Instruction

10.29.18 _ UT Austin Health Discovery Building _ Austin, TX

Organizing, designing, and facilitating tactically focused events and workshops as a part of the 2018 fresh2design Continued Learning event series.

Event Organization + Design + Facilitation

Design & Development, The Perfect Match 

w/ Sanjay Shah and Candice Digby

02.12.18 _ General Assembly, Austin, TX

Design in Practice: Understanding Product and Service Design 

w/ Alex Price, and Vaishnavi Kumar

07.17.18 _ RetailMeNot, Austin, TX

Organizing, designing, and facilitating Innovation, Disruption, and Discovery Workshops to kick off new work streams at MU/DAI leveraging the Google Ventures Sprint methodology.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

run on my own or with Erica Ryan and rotating members of the MU/DAI team in Austin, TX

2018: 01.24.18, 01.25.18, 02.07.18, 05.08.18, 06.18.18

2017: 05.17.17, 05.31.17, 06.14.17, 07.17.17, 09.06.17, 09.12.17, 10.27.17, 12.13.17

Organizing and Facilitating group discussions focused on Design Systems on behalf of fresh2design in order to grow a community of practice in Austin.

Symposium Organization + Facilitation

10.27.17 @ Brew n Brew11.17.17 @ Cenote (Cameron Rd)12.15.17 @ Whole Foods w/ the Mozilla Firefox Photon Design System team

1.26.18 @ Native Hostel w/ members of the projekt202 Technology team

2.23.18 Tool Talk: Abstract @ T3 w/ Josh Butner

3.30.18 @ Wellspring4.27.18 @ HomeAway w/ the HomeAway Foundations Team

5.25.18 @ Rackspace w/ the Rackspace Helix Design System Team

7.6.18 @ Native Hostel8.3.18 @ HomeAway w/ the HomeAway Foundations Team

9.7.18 @ USAA w/ the USAA Design Language System Team

10.5.18 @ Tillery Kitchen & Bar w/ guests from Indeed's Design System team

11.2.18 @ IBM w/ the Carbon Design System team

Designing and Facilitating a Town Hall style experience where members of the Design community in Austin can gather to express how fresh2design can better serve them in a guided, outcome-oriented manner.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

w/ Mae Reed for Austin Design Week

11.09.17 @ Cheer Up Charlies

Designing and Facilitating a speculative workshop focused on positing a distinction between Generalized AI & Applied AI, and defining Design's role in the future and future-present of 'AI'.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

w/ Jannis Hegenwald for Austin Design Week

11.09.17 @ Atlassian

This series of workshops generated $240 in donations for Hurricane Harvey relief. All proceeds & donations from these workshops were donated to the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Organizing, Designing, and Facilitating a Design Thinking workshop series focused on applying AI to disaster relief.

Workshop Design + Organization + Facilitation

09.21.17 - for AMA-Austin _ Microsoft Store in The Domain Austin, TX

09.27.17 - for CTxWFS _ Capitol Factory, Wall-E Room Austin, TX

An educational session at General Assembly for UX Intensive graduates that provided an overview of how to approach white-boarding when working on Design Challenges as part of the interview process.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

w/ Mike Townson, William Yarbrough, and Nicole Umphress

06.13.17 _ Austin, TX

Speculative Futures workshop for the Design House Designing The Future Self event at Atmosphere Coworking.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

w/ Jannis Hegenwald

03.30.17 _ Austin, TX

Contextual Design Thinking workshop for fresh2design at Byron & Blue focused on helping participants uncover what Design Thinking means to them in relation to their design process.

Workshop Design + Organization + Facilitation

03.06.17 _ Austin, TX

Customer Value Mapping + Customer Journey mapping workshop for Dell's Global Support & Deployment Product Group Executive Team offsite at projekt202.

Workshop Facilitation

w/ Jannis Hegenwald

02.23.17 _ Austin, TX

Vanilla Design Thinking workshop for a Creative Mornings Field Trip at projekt202.

Workshop Design + Organization + Facilitation

w/ Jannis Hegenwald

02.03.17 _ Austin, TX

A lecture and short workshop for Jacek Gwidzka's Human Computer Interaction course at the UT Austin Graduate School of Information.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

w/ Jannis Hegenwald, Alan Koda, and Rae Gibbs

10.27.16 _ Austin, TX

A lecture and short workshop for Jacek Gwidzka's Human Computer Interaction course at the UT Austin Graduate School of Information.

Workshop Design + Facilitation

w/ Jannis Hegenwald, Alan Koda, and Rae Gibbs

10.19.16 _ Austin, TX