Extras

This is the space for personal exploration into topics or problems I am interested in investigating and projects I have done in the past that I would like to feature. Most of the work is in progress and may include reflections on my experiences exploring these areas.

Stradie Vecchie

Personal Project

Project overview: Exploration in shoe design inspired by the streets of Italy
Exploring: fashion, sketching, mood boards, material study, object storytelling

Religious Relics

Academic Project

Questions explored: What if, in the future, humanity recognizes nature and organisms as sentient beings that hold the same rights as people? What artifacts would exist that help illustrate this equality?

Project overview: This object explores how religious relics could change from being something largely human-focused to broaden and allow animals and other non-human organisms to be on the same pedestals as saints.

Wall of Lasts

Academic Project

Questions explored: What would a future organization tasked with protecting the rights of both people and nature have in their decision-making spaces? What would the purpose of these objects serve to assist these global decision-makers?

Project overview: The Wall of Lasts is an imagined physical time stamp of events in human history that would exist in an international relations space geared towards new ways of thinking and communicating. The Wall of Lasts would showcase moments such as the last commercially cut tree, the last zero-day code to be used against a nation, and the last chemical bomb to be manufactured for war. The Wall of Lasts would be a showcase of mankind's agreements of preservation of both nature and human life as well as a reminder of the past.

Regrief Kit

Academic Project

Questions explored: What ways would our relationship with our bodies about the world change in the future? With this new knowledge of ourselves and how we are not separated from others on Earth materialize in our day-to-day lives (such as our activities and habits)?

Project overview: The Regrief kit is a physical exploration into the possibility of mankind repurposing their emotions into a form that is both apart from their selves and also productive for other organisms. What if we could take away our grief and put that energy into growing something rather than holding it in ourselves or suppressing these feelings with medication? What if there was a way to utilize the grief from loss and redirect it for something to be gained?

Migration Tool

Academic Project

Questions explored: How will people’s interactions with nature change once they recognize nature as being a sentient being with rights? How will habits and activities be transformed to honor our new relationship with trees, grass, rivers, etc.?

Project overview: The Migration Toll exists as an artificial pollinator adapted to human transportation. The idea came from the phrase used by the Boy and Girl Scouts of America, "Leave things better than how you found them." As mankind has progressed, we have transformed the landscape in our wake with highways, cleared hiking paths, infrastructure, and more. The Migration Toll takes advantage of our ever-moving habits and attaches 'pollinating apparatuses' to ourselves so as we move, we leave opportunities for regrowth.

Energy Independence Diplomatic Gift

Academic Project

Questions explored: In a world where we have completely transitioned to renewable energies, how would that new energy independence shape the globe? What would relationships between nations look like?

Project overview: By the year 2095, there will be a push toward complete energy independence due to pressures from climate change and limited traditional energy resources such as coal and fossil fuels. With this newfound energy independence, nations will be encouraged to redraw their borders due to their region's natural formation to optimize renewable energy generation. This independence will also become a part of their identity as renewable energy becomes a patriotic symbol of self-assurance and national pride.

Recognized Natural Rights Congregation Tool

Academic Project

Questions explored: What would it look like for the natural world to have rights? What would it mean for nature to go to trial? A human-created concept that has very few similarities with the natural world? What new rituals would need to occur if nature were to exist in these spaces?

Project overview: The idea for this object was to act as a sort of artifact to be both a record of a new kind of court hearing that no longer exists in a typical human courtroom setting but in the affected spaces that will be discussed at the meeting. The use of the rope would be used as a tool to “enter” and “begin” the hearing in a new and evolving space. After the hearing, I imagined the rope tools to be labeled and preserved with a photograph of the meeting to commemorate the meeting of both people and nature.

People-to-Oyster erosion barriers

Academic Project

Project overview:
Exploring: Sustainable design, climate mitigation, systems design, artificial habitats, Rhino outdoor scene rendering capabilities

Process Posters

Professional Project

Project overview: Visualizations for internal design team use (feedback from UN for workshop)
Exploring: visual storytelling, fast communication, easy-to-read images

Branded Illustrations

Professional Project

Project overview: Creating illustrations for an independent writer’s brand and social media presence
Exploring: social media design, illustration, content organization

Presidential Impact Report, Bryant Magazine (Winter 2024, Summer 2025), University brand guidelines: Bryant University’s new brand and [IN] campaign application

Professional Project

Exploring: Editorial design, cover art, AI prompting, photo editing

Chocolate Packaging

Academic Project

Project overview: The project is about alternative ways to share sexual health information through packaging. It is about moments when we share.
Exploring: package design, alternative communication, user experience

Custom map for world-building exercise with nation’s leaders

Professional Project

Project overview: Map of a make-believe world for government leaders to explore what to do when the power grid goes down due to snowstorm conditions.

Exploring: stylized illustration

Team: Irina Wang

Mapping object ecosystem for Via campaign

Professional Project

Project overview: Visual map to understand the product ecosystem and how different components fit into one another under the 4 exchange models: open session, workshop, skills, and celebration.

Exploring: infographics, visual mapping, artifact strategy