Exhibit Columbus announces University Design Research Fellows

The 2022-23 Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellows for next year’s exhibition have been announced.

All of the participants will be in Columbus for the upcoming symposium Oct. 21-22 in downtown Columbus. Moving away from the traditional format of a symposium, “Public by Design” will place the many communities of Columbus at the center of the conversations and do this in a public format by creating specific opportunities for engagement between the designers and the citizens of Columbus.

The fellows are:

• Joseph Altshuler, School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, Illinois,and Zack Morrison Chicago, Illinois. Altshuler is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Co-Founder of Could Be Architecture, a Chicago and Urbana-based design practice. Morrison is Co-Founder of Could Be Architecture, a Chicago- and Urbana-based design practice that designs seriously playful spaces that build solidarity among multiple communities. Morrison is also a design educator who leads participatory architecture workshops around the nation, including the educational video series “Animate Architecture” commissioned by the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He is the Co-Founder of the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, a public art exhibition.
• Esteban Garcia Bravo, Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette. Garcia Bravo is associate professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University, where he teaches digital imaging, fabrication and computational aesthetics.
• Jessica Colangelo and Charles Sharpless, University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Colangelo is assistant professor at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design where she has coordinated the foundation second year studio sequence, and taught seminars around the use of storytelling in architecture and material geographies. Sharpless is assistant professor of Interior at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design where he teaches foundation level design studios and design-build studios that promote student engagement with community groups through impactful design explorations that support community initiatives.
• Deborah Garcia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Garcia is the Belluschi Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture and a designer, writer, and curator. She was a recipient of the Princeton University Butler Travelling Fellowship which allowed her to be a resident at ARTFarm Nebraska, and was an invited participant for the 2019 Arctic Circle Expedition in the international territory of Svalbard, Norway. She was a Co-Curator of THE DRAWING SHOW at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in 2017 and curator of One Night Stand for Art and Architecture-LA in 2016.
• Molly Hunker and Greg Corso, Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, New York. Hunker is assistant professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture. She is also the co-captain of the practice, SPORTS, with Corso. He is assistant professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture. Much of their work has been public interventions that leverage the possibility for straightforward and high-economy design to have significant urban and community impacts.
• Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann, University of Virginia School of Architecture Charlottesville, Virginia. MacDonald is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture where she is director of the Before Building Laboratory and more. Schumann is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture where he is co-director of the Before Building Laboratory and co-curator of the Biomaterial Building Exposition.
• Halina Steiner, Tameka Baba, Forbes Lipschitz, Austin E. Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and Shelby Doyle, Iowa State University College of Design, Ames, Iowa. Steiner is assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Austin E. Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. Her research, forensic hydrology, focuses on overlaps between professional practice, hydrology, and infrastructure with an emphasis on scale and systems.

Baba is assistant professor of practice in landscape architecture at the Austin E. Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. Her research tracks the transition of urban vacancy, specifically those created by the retail industry.

Forbes Lipschitz is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Austin E. Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. Her research investigates the potential of design to reframe and reshape conventional working landscapes. Doyle is associate professor of architecture and Stan G. Thurston Professor of Design Build at the Iowa State University College of Design.

As ever, Exhibit Columbus is designed to be responsive to the needs and desires of the community it serves, while connecting with a national audience.