A sustained line of inquiry into immersive heritage environments, professional readiness tools, and community-engaged research, 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.
Beyond the lab and the museum, this work extends into community-engaged research through collaborative design. The goal is always the same: clear, lasting resources that communities can own and sustain on their own terms.
A participatory installation that uses audiovisual prompts to engage audiences in reflecting on how time, place, cultural objects, and memory shape the Latino diaspora.
A digital twin and VR experience that reimagines a former youth detention center in Jayuya, Puerto Rico as a space the community can reclaim and make its own.
A 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.