Pedagogy: High-Tech Humanism as Practice
Creative sovereignty matters more than technical compliance. The work spans graduate curriculum design, community practice, and AI literacy tools for creative practitioners.
Master of Design: Creative Technology
Curriculum Finalized / Proposal In ReviewLead author of the inaugural Master of Design (MDes) program at Kean University. This 36-credit curriculum establishes a state-first graduate framework for Creative Technology, bridging AI ethics, immersive media, and global academic exchange between Kean USA and Wenzhou-Kean (WKU).
Lead Author Contributions:
- Authored the 36-credit degree proposal and assessment rubrics.
- Drafted the 'Generative AI and Artistic Intelligence' policy statement.
- Synchronized curricular design with Virtual Production and Immersive Lab specifications.
Artistic Intelligence Framework
Contributed institutional AI policy language emphasizing generative AI as a tool for 'Artistic Intelligence': creative sovereignty over technical compliance. This framework positions AI literacy as a core pillar of the MDes curriculum.
Kean University
Union, New Jersey, USA
Wenzhou-Kean University
Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
One Degree. Two Continents. A Global Network for Creative Innovation.
The Happiness Collaborative: Cultivating Affective Agency
Co-founded with Denise Anderson, Department Chair: Robert Busch School of Design
The Happiness Collaborative is a community-engaged research platform exploring the intersection of design, public health, and collective wellbeing. It connects students, faculty, and community partners through interdisciplinary design-build projects that treat joy not as an abstraction but as something you can actually build. Each initiative co-designs visual systems and public resources with the communities they serve, fostering social connection, celebrating local identity, and creating lasting tools that remain useful long after the semester ends.
Social Impact
Zimmerman Urban Community Vegetable Garden
Social Impact Case StudyPartner: Jewish Family Services of Central NJ
Scope: Redesign, rebuild, and rebrand of the Urban Community Garden that directly supports the Charlotte Shak Food Pantry.
Interdisciplinary: Graphic Design, Architecture, Environmental/Sustainable Science
Status: Build Completed, April 2026. Wayfinding and Volunteer Support Package in progress.
Design-Build
SuperAdobe: Local Earth, Global Practice
Design-Build WorkshopTeam: Camille Sherrod (Build Lead), Henry Stankiewicz (Documentation Lead)
Scope: A design-build workshop focused on sustainable architecture at Kean University. The Happiness Collaborative participates in the physical build and synthesizes the process through visual storytelling, ensuring the joy of making is documented as a core pedagogical outcome.
Status: Build Completed, May 2026. Multimedia documentation package to follow.
Course Frameworks
Teaching Artifacts
Working Notes on Prompting: What the Tool Is Actually Doing
A ten-sheet introductory series addressing the most common misconceptions students bring to generative AI tools. Each sheet is a standalone 5-minute reading built for in-class use or independent reference.
These materials are designed as interactive HTML documents rather than static PDFs. Building a navigable, hyperlinked teaching system, even at the artifact level, is itself an application of the High-Tech Humanism framework: the medium demonstrates the argument.
The model is not a person. Establishes that the user holds responsibility for output quality, with emphasis on verification and iterative refinement.
Show vs. tell; using context as a resource. Moves from principles to practical construction of effective prompts.
Specific technique families: persona construction, length control, and step-by-step reasoning chains.