If you build it

In the movie if you build it design is used as a form of advocacy to help the community of Bertie county. A design program is implemented for students and provides them with a hands on learning experience. There was not much opportunity in the county for young people and they were not provided with much of a learning experience in the classroom. The Studio H program allowed the students to learn in a different way and work on projects that made the community better. The farmers market that they built was a huge way to impact the community for the better, providing jobs and a place to get food for a lower price. I think that using design in this was as a form of advocacy is great because it gave the students a sense of opportunity and a feeling that what they were doing was important. I think using design as a form of advocacy and programs like Studio H could help many other communities like it did Bertie county.

Design Autobiograph

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Design Profile 11-12

The 11th designer was Lindsey Fay. She loved art classes in elementary school and got the opportunity to help design a playground which inspired her and started her passion for design. She got her undergraduate degree at UK and now practices, teaches, and does research and community work. She sees design in health care with how it works and how the needs of the providers, patients and visitors is all met. She and believes in experimental learning, she encourages to go to places to learn. She also sees design in cohousing where one big house is surrounded by smaller houses to create a sense of community. She believes that design will be utilized to impact social issues and to give back.


The 12th designer was Mark O`Bryan who is an architect. He got his degree from UK and met his wife who is an interior designer here. He has teaches and practices and loves to study and learn. He has built churches and lots of other religious buildings. He is inspired by the greek myth of the wings,  the labyrinth, and his stamp/logo. He takes students on trips to paris, rome,  and Greece to help them experience architecture. He believes that design is always evolving and that there are so many choices for design and they need to be picked meaningfully.

Design Profile 9-10

The 9th designer was Randall Vaughn. Vaughn is an architect and president of Gray Architects and Engineers. He is a University of Kentucky Alum of the college of Architecture. He believes that design is apart of every aspect of our lives from the clothes we wear to the cars that we drive and he believes that everything was designed for a purpose. He asked a few of his colleagues the questions we have been discussing and here were some of their responses..
 -Design can influence everything
-Design can bring order or cause chaos
-good design is seamless and comfortable
-the next few steps of the profession tend to point to architects and designers coming together and having multiple trades
-technologies don't allow for better design, just allow the buyer to see what they are buying better.


The 10th designer was Helen Turner. She sums up her design story in one word "opportunity".
She got her undergraduate degree from Ohio University in interior architecture. She started practicing right away working at a small design firm and then got a job at a larger firm. She was laid off but this pushed her to go back to school and get her masters of science in architecture. She also had the opportunity to go on a 5 week archaeological dig in Pompay. She believes design can have both a positive and negative effect on our world. She is very interested in energy efficient and environmental efficient design and sees design moving towards that way.

Designer Profile 7-8

The 7th designer was Timothy Lucas who is an architect. His father was an interior designer so he was interested in design from a young age. He got his bachelor of arts and architecture from the university of Kentucky in 11974. He worked at many different places throughout his life that involved architecture and eventually started his own firm Lucas/Schwering Architects. He believes that design is in everything around us from the clothes that we wear to the artifacts that we use in every day lives. He thinks that when design is well done it has the ability to transform the lives of the people who use the designed thing. As far as where design is headed, he thins that computers have transformed that design profession and that the use of computers will only continue to expand. He hopes that this will be a source of better communication and collaboration.


The 8th designer was Melody Jackson. She teaches first year architecture here at UK. She originally did not know that she wanted to be a designer and was originally on the pre-med track, but she was always inspired by the work of Leonardo Devinvci. She had the opportunity to study in Scotland. She believes that all choices are design choices and is inspired by things that involve a lot of imagination and creativity. She believes that design is headed in a collaborative path and that design is beginning to blend with other fields like engineering.

Designer Profile 5-6

The 5th designer was Adriane Grumbein. She majored in communications and now teaches in the integrated communications section specifically marketing and creativity classes. Her design story began when she was in high school and she designed the schools web page. Once she decided design was her thing she entered college as an art major but then switched it to a communications major. She did so because her view of design was more of a problem solving approach. She enjoys helping students take raw ideas into finished products. She believes that design is everywhere which will lead to design be more connected with business to communicate their ideas.

The 6th designer was Joe Ray Barreau. He is an architect, lighting designer, and a teacher at UK. He has a lot of experience in design and loves to share his knowledge with his students. His love for design started when he designed a tree house in Cuba with his father. He has come to the realization that the things we don't normally focus on mean a lot in design. For that reason he works mainly in lighting. He believes that the newest technological development in lighting has created a revolution and that LED light has changed the way lighting is done forever. It is being incorporated everywhere and has opened up a whole new world for lighting.

Designer Profile 2,3 and 4

The second designer we heard from was Adam Langston. Adam became interested in design at a very  young age. He knew by the time that he was in middle school that he wanted to be an architect. He took some drafting classes in high school and eventually went on to enter the architect program at UK his second year of college. He went and studied abroad in Paris and Rome may and june of 2014. During this time he began to learn that there are all kinds of design ideas that aren't knew but can be implemented in new ways. As for the future for design he thinks that technology is taking over which is making collaboration a lot easier. He also believes there will be a lot more 3D printed and digitally fabricated things.

The third designer we heard from was Julie Sniadowski. Julie`s designer story starts with an art background. She took painting classes at an early age and was accepted into the Governor`s School of the Arts in high school. She received her bachelors degree from UK. During her second year she got more into digital fabrication and drawing on the computer. She also studied abroad in Paris and Rome like Adam. She draws a lot of inspiration around her. She believes that there is nothing original, just evolution or improvement. For the future of design she thinks that there will be an expansion in technology an expansion in what problems are tackled.

The fourth designer we heard from was Heather Hemmer. She originally was not interested in design and would have never predicted this is where she would end up. Her junior year of high school she took and art class and became interested. She continued to take similar classes during her freshman year of college and learned how to use the computer programs during her second year. She also thinks that design is all evolution and that you have to let it talk to you. Designing something is what makes you, you. She also likes to make use of someone else`s trash. For the future of design related to her, she wants to actually go out and see designed things in person. She is going to Thailand in the winter and eventually wants to move to San Francisco.