A sustained line of inquiry into immersive heritage environments, physical computing, and professional readiness tools, each investigating how design opens access to complex, often restricted domains.
Featured Case Study, Current Research
A virtual heritage installation built for the Nantucket Whaling Museum.
View the ProjectA 2020 NY Emmy®-nominated immersive experience in two formats: ultra-widescreen digital HD and 360° Virtual Reality.
Built work where sensing, small electronics, and projection meet the body. The measure is whether a person can see their own action causing the response.
Activated, September 2026
A hand-turned vane in a wooden doorway that opens a projected field of flowers across the frame. Switch! was designed by four faculty leads and built with a student team for BuildFest. There was no motor. The light answered only to the people turning it.
Play the InstrumentA multi-year body of work that extends the original harbor visualization to other historic sites across the island. Each project below sits at an earlier stage of development.
A high-fidelity digital twin and virtual tour of the 1805 Old Gaol.
A digital twin recreation of the Jethro Coffin House, built in 1686 and the oldest house remaining on its original site on Nantucket.
An immersive VR experience utilizing game-engine technology to transform a static digital twin of Steamboat Wharf into a navigable historical environment.
This research explores how purpose-built software tools and clear visual systems can remove the barriers between design students and the professional landscape they're preparing to enter, making career pathways visible, navigable, and honestly structured.
CraftRole is a structured career-matching tool that helps design students identify professional pathways aligned with how they actually work, not just what they studied.
MajorSpec is a web tool that turns hardware specifications into plain, major-specific guidance.