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New York, United States

New York, United States

Bluecadet is an experience design agency based in Philadelphia and New York. We partner with mission-driven organizations to create human-centered products and environments. We embrace design, technology, and innovation in the service of content, emotion, and experience.

New York, United States

Supported residential projects in SD and DD, drawing elevations and plans, assemblingschedules, and compiling client presentation decks.

Thesis project: Speculative Friction, co-designed with Alice Jia Li Song. This thesis opens the conversation to the banal and absurd capitalist reality at the Geneva Freeport and looks at this uncanny world from within. What are the objects and their entanglements with the world outside? What happens when the objects begin to push back on their container?

4.151 Core 1 Graduate Design Studio | Fall 2021

Co-founder of MIT Architecture's first peer-to-peer support group. Collaborated with a partner to design, brand, and launch the organization. Trained in conflict management and mediation.

4.110 Design Across Scales | Spring 2021

4.051 The Human Factor in Innovation and Design Strategy | Fall 2020

4.s64 Architecture, Culture and Science Fiction | Summer 2020Co-designed and taught the summer workshop, "Architecture, Culture and Science Fiction," in which students (U/G) explored visual representation as a social and political act of storytelling using Science Fiction literature and theory as foundation.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Supported work on FEMA Housing Pre-Planning Toolkit for disaster preparedness and mitigation. Work included content curation for textual legibility and ease of use as well as UX/UI design.

Massachusetts, United States

Was responsible for communicating director and VR filmmaker Nimrod Shapira's creative vision inthree projects. Contributions were directed towards securing funds for the work.

4.302 Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices | Spring 2019

Princeton, NJ

OneLeap helps leading organizations build innovative new ventures, grow existing business, and develop more entrepreneurial leaders, by working with top tier entrepreneurs. OneLeap draws on 3000 entrepreneurs across 35 countries. We work with companies in the UK, Europe and US and our work has been featured in Harvard Business Review.

New York City, NY

Interfaced with architects and connected them with building product manufacturers in the Architizer community.

Brooklyn, NY

Worked as a digital fabricator at an award-winning interactive studio alongside interactive designers and fabricators to design, construct, and implement interactive architecture pieces in a range of scales and contexts.

Cambridge, MA

Worked for Harvard’s Dr. Beth Altringer, conducting research on recommendation algorithms in platforms such as Tinder, Spotify, Artsy, and Chef Watson, compiling information into accessible reports for AI Kitchen. Assisted with grant applications, writing content and designing layouts. www.desirabilitylab.com

Cambridge, MA

Worked to change the experience of learning by testing creative assignments for professors and gave feedback. Showcased the process of ‘making’ in visual art, performance, and music through film, using advanced cameras and editing software.

Valencia, Spain

Designed and proposed floor plan layouts for an interior renovation project. Refined models and edited project photographs in preparation for publication. Translated formal documents from Spanish to English.

Boston, MA

Created 3D models of innovative lab spaces in Harvard, MIT, and UMass Boston and generated renderings for the marketing department, copies of which were published in a brochure later that summer.

Cambridge, MA

Volunteered alongside museum conservators to catalogue artifacts into the museum database by collecting measurements and detailed descriptions.Built custom boxes for items and performed non-invasive topical cleaning.

Master Of Architecture - March

Bachelor Of Arts (A.B.), History Of Art And Architecture

Magna Cum Laude