Summer-long mentorship program to be a guide and friend to students looking to make a difference by entering the game industry. Provide feedback and advice on the game’s development and design, and be generally blown away by the quality of the work.
Speak alongside other USC Architecture alum in a Pecha Kucha format on my work uniting design, technology, and my architectural background. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, this was held virtually. Recording found here.
Visit kindergarteners at Curley School and lead playful (but informative) hands-on activities which help them to engage with architecture and the design of their built environments.
Guide Harvard Graduate School of Education students through lectures, activities, and labs designed to introduce them to digital fabrication and making in the context of education. Students develop individual and group projects using techniques such as laser cutting, 3D printing, and programming with microcontrollers in order to make interactive experiences for learning.
Assist students as they develop site-specific virtually mediated physical experiences by using microcontrollers, sensors, actuators, lights, and more. Distill the ambiance of a space using technology, and re-manifest it unconventionally using these tools. Taught by Allen Sayegh.
Aided with an introduction to notable works in the field of Game Studies and with playtime in other games, students will develop and showcase physical games around the theme of “Coming of Age.” They will complete every step of the game design process from ideation to packaging, and will leave with the conceptual, theoretical, and technical skills needed to assemble a meaningful game from a larger web of systems.
Introducing the basics of working with electronics, breadboards, microcontrollers, and programming to prototype unconventional modes of interactivity.
First introduction of Unreal Engine to design students with no background in game engines. From navigating the interface, to quickly sketching interactivity with blueprints, students should leave enough understanding of Unreal workflows and concepts to develop their own projects.
As with the development of any other great technical/art project, indie game development is the process of making and executing decisions between what the creator’s ambitions are and what the creator is capable of doing. This session will consist of a lecture which highlights problems between ideation and execution and how an open-handed philosophy of rolling with the punches can mold innovative solutions from otherwise restricting problems. Leaning on my background and experience in Architecture, I will use that field’s long history to analogize how this problem-solving methodology can make projects all the better.
Leading game design exersizes (complete with physical prototypes!) with Middle School and High School students from Hawkins, Capistrano, Orange County, and Corcoron schools at IndieCade 2018.
Assist students as they develop virtual experiences/landscapes by using game engines (Unity and Unreal) for the first time. Workflows from sketches, to 3D assets, to materials, to scene assembly, to interactivity.
Visit kindergarteners at JF Condon School and lead playful (but informative) hands-on activities which help them to engage with architecture and the design of their built environments.
Advise students on fabrication/physical production workflows, ensure safe utilization of saws, sanders, drills, planers, presses, etc. and manage environment within woodshop.
Mentor USC Annenberg students in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, and Premier through in-person meetings and the creation of online tutorials.
Teach fundamentals of drawing, model-making, diagramming, design methodology, fabrication, and critique as a part of studios for first year Architecture students. Individual studios taught under Sandy Yum, Lisa Little, and Sofia Borges. Additional summer studio under under Sofia Borges. Additional drawing Studio under Lauren Rath.
