Recent Speaking Engagements
“Museum Architecture 101″ Arkansas Arts Center Distinguished Speaker, Little Rock. 2016. “Arts as Community Catalysts,” Keynote Speaker, Burning Man Global Leadership Conference, San Francisco. 2015. “Playing by the Numbers – Planning A Project and Getting It Right From the Start,” Speaker, Western Museum Association Conference – with Marjorie Schwarzer, Professor at USF, Las Vegas, NV. 2014 “Project Management for Museums,” Guest Lecturer, USF Graduate Museum Studies program, San Francisco. 2014 Cultural Preservation in Watts, planning charette organized to address cultural preservation and arts engagement in Watts. 2013 First South Charette, Team Leader for a planning charette for an art and design district in Birmingham, Alabama. 2013 “Envisioning New Public Engagement,” Workshop Facilitator for the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development’s arts planning charette organized by OMA/AMO for Central Market, San Francisco. 2012 “Arts as a Community Revitalization Strategy,” Speaker and Panel Moderator, National Symposium of Arts/Cultural/Entertainment Districts held in conjunction with the Main Streets Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, & sponsored by the Short North Arts District, April 2012 “Planning the Museum in the Park,” College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 2011 “Museums and their Architecture,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Architect Selection Committee, Board of Directors, 2011 “Museums and Our Urban Future,” Building Museums Symposium, Mid-Atlantic Museum Association, 2011 Arts Facilities & Economic Development Symposium, TEDP/LISC, “Natural Cultural Districts,” 2010 Harvard University GSD, Urban Futures Symposium, “Arts & Social Impact,” 2010 JFK University, Graduate Studies, Guest Lecturer, “Architecture, Museums & Our Urban Future,” 2010 |
Architecture and the City Festival, AIA San Francisco, “Mint Project,” 2010 USF, Arts Administration, Guest Lecturer, “Arts and Urban Development,” 2010 USF, Museum Studies Program Guest Lecturer,“Architecture, Museums & Our Urban Future,” 2010 CREW Conference San Francisco, “Museums of Tomorrow Learning Excursion,” 2010 International Facility Management Administrators Conference, San Francisco, “Project Planning,” 2010 2010 Building Museums Symposium, Mid-Atlantic Museum Association, “Modeling Sustainability,” 2010 Architecture and the City Festival, AIA SF, “Museums of Tomorrow”, 2009 San Francisco Planning and Urban Research, “Mint Project Tour & Presentation,” 2009 City of Tel Aviv 100th Centennial Conference, “Cultural Projects for an Urban Future” 2009 Institute for Global Leadership Symposium, Tufts University, “Cultural Projects for Urban Regeneration” 2009 AIA National Conference, San Francisco, “The Old Mint” tour and presentations, 2009 University of California, Berkeley, Landscape, Architecture & Environmental Planning, “Project Management,” 2008 |