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Start Time: 11/7/2023, 08:00 AM
End Time: 11/7/2023, 09:00 AM
Karina Ruiz, NOMA, AIA, LEED AP
Principal, BRIC Architecture
Karina Ruiz is a founding Principal of BRIC Architecture, the 2019 Chair of the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education, and a founding Board Member of NOMA PDX. Karina has focused her 30-year career on the design of innovative learning environments. She has designed and managed over $1 billion in educational projects, many of which have earned numerous local, regional, and national design awards, including two James D. MacConnell Awards. As BRIC’s educational facility planning lead, Karina inspires their educational planning, community engagement, and design efforts to create a more equitable, just, and humane world. Her leadership is based in the ardent belief that design can strengthen pedagogy to more equitably serve the needs of learners.
Molly Esteve
Design Staff, BRIC Architecture
Molly is a participatory designer who works to get student and community voices at the forefront of design processes. She cultivates interdisciplinary, community-driven design strategies with strong funding and planning foundations. Loving to design both in the classroom and in the studio, Molly is also an educator who teaches architectural studios at Portland State University. She is particularly invested in the design of culturally rich educational spaces where students and families feel safe and sense of belonging.
Joi Wood
Student, Howard University | Design Intern, BRIC Architecture, Howard University | BRIC Architecture
Joi Wood is a sophomore architecture major working towards her Master of Architecture at Howard University in Washington DC. She is a set designer for student productions and fashion shows at Howard University’s Chadwick Boseman College of Fine Arts. Joi is also the Team Director of Delight Ministries at Howard, a national Christian woman's ministry. From Washington DC to her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, Joi is passionate about pursuing opportunities that embody art, service, and building community. As a Design Intern at BRIC Architecture, Joi is leading the research, analysis, and application of equitable, student-centered school safety and security design processes throughout the duration of her academic year internship.
Learning Objectives:
End Time: 11/7/2023, 09:00 AM
Communities of Care: Reimagined Design Processes for Student Safety & Belonging
Speaker Details:
Karina Ruiz, NOMA, AIA, LEED AP
Principal, BRIC Architecture
Karina Ruiz is a founding Principal of BRIC Architecture, the 2019 Chair of the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education, and a founding Board Member of NOMA PDX. Karina has focused her 30-year career on the design of innovative learning environments. She has designed and managed over $1 billion in educational projects, many of which have earned numerous local, regional, and national design awards, including two James D. MacConnell Awards. As BRIC’s educational facility planning lead, Karina inspires their educational planning, community engagement, and design efforts to create a more equitable, just, and humane world. Her leadership is based in the ardent belief that design can strengthen pedagogy to more equitably serve the needs of learners.
Molly Esteve
Design Staff, BRIC Architecture
Molly is a participatory designer who works to get student and community voices at the forefront of design processes. She cultivates interdisciplinary, community-driven design strategies with strong funding and planning foundations. Loving to design both in the classroom and in the studio, Molly is also an educator who teaches architectural studios at Portland State University. She is particularly invested in the design of culturally rich educational spaces where students and families feel safe and sense of belonging.
Joi Wood
Student, Howard University | Design Intern, BRIC Architecture, Howard University | BRIC Architecture
Joi Wood is a sophomore architecture major working towards her Master of Architecture at Howard University in Washington DC. She is a set designer for student productions and fashion shows at Howard University’s Chadwick Boseman College of Fine Arts. Joi is also the Team Director of Delight Ministries at Howard, a national Christian woman's ministry. From Washington DC to her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, Joi is passionate about pursuing opportunities that embody art, service, and building community. As a Design Intern at BRIC Architecture, Joi is leading the research, analysis, and application of equitable, student-centered school safety and security design processes throughout the duration of her academic year internship.
Learning Objectives:
- Apply replicable strategies that yield community-specific, student-defined safety and belonging principles designed to elevate the human experience in school facilities.
- Explore opportunities to position project team members and stakeholders to champion accountability to student safety throughout the design process.
- Identify opportunities to improve physical and social-emotional well-being by shifting from a CPTED framework to an equity-driven community care approach.
- Explore opportunities to enable equity by engaging environmental graphic designer to co-create culturally inclusive and trauma-informed safety/wayfinding design solutions.
Communities of Care: Reimagined Design Processes for Student Safety & Belonging
Track
EDsession (60 min)