MICRO’s Museum of Care, launched in October 2021, explores how deeply care is embedded in each of us and our communities. It puts a large focus on health care workers, giving them a platform to speak about their personal experiences with the healthcare system.
Role: Product Specialist (creative and manufacturing)
Museum photographs: Josh Garcia
All other credits: here
How does the presentation of animals affect their place in society? Starting from a young age, how can this presentation encourage widespread consideration and ethical treatment of all animals? Originally an undergraduate thesis project, the object of this book is to set a new standard for the way that other animals are portrayed in children’s media.
Advisors:
Carly & Michele Sceppaguercio - early childhood educators
Steven Zang - specialty in script writing and story
Adam See - animal/environmental ethics professor
Jose Alcala - industrial design/thesis professor
Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood - Stewart, K. and Cole, M.
A storage system for meaningful belongings. Through a hierarchy of stacked containers, Wilson is intended to create a state of mindfulness when interacted with. Due to its weight and minor asymmetry, when the unit is disassembled and reassembled each time it calls for care and concentration; diverting your attention from mental worries to a physical task. The more important or meaningful the item, the farther down in the capsule it should go thus requiring more effort and concentration from the user to further shift focus to the “now.”
“This isn’t going to work.” — Don, head of the woodshop at NJIT
Regularly practicing gratitude has many individual and social benefits. Full family participation in a gratitude practice could help to strengthen bonds and relationships between family members and enforce healthy mental habits for children. This tool is used for displaying daily messages of gratitude within a family. New notes can be fastened to the display with magnets. Old notes are stored in the back of the frame, collecting within the frame like flowers falling off a tree- making room for new expressions of thanks.
Made in collaboration with digital designers, Noralie Abreu & Twinkle Desaii.
Round 1 — User Testing (facilitated by our team)
Round 2 — User Testing (facilitated by parents)
Families create their own superheroes together, both parents and children. The superhero acts as a blank canvas that children can project themselves on to and through guided play parents can indirectly talk to their children about matters they may be struggling with. Play is guided by instructional videos provided with the product.
Made in collaboration with digital designers, Noralie Abreu & Twinkle Desaii.
Developed curriculum, created materials, and taught late elementary school students about design and 3D printing.
What if the effect the human lifestyle has on other animals was considered as early as the Neolithic era? Hyde is a wearable peace-making tool designed to have been constructed and used in Neolithic Africa. This camouflage is inspired by agonistic behavior and caters to humans and rhinoceroses.
T. I. C. (Timely Intuitive Capacitor) is a movie prop created for a sci-fi student thesis film.
Designed with Steven Zang.
Hope with Heart is a non-profit, summer camp for children with congenital heart disease. A variety of logos and other graphic materials were made for events, campaigns, apparel, and announcements.
Graphic language and style developed for Ohio gym, Full Scale Fitness. Applied to social media announcements of carbon neutrality and safety protocols.
