Emily Pilloton - Design. Build. Transform.

Emily Pilloton is an architect and designer, disguised as a public high school teacher in the poorest county in North Carolina. As the founder of nonprofit Project H Design and educational program Studio H, Emily believes design is a framework for transforming education, and for bringing creative capital to communities that need it. With her thirteen students, she has designed and built locally relevant projects including public chicken coops and currently a farmer's market, which will be built in downtown Windsor, North Carolina this coming summer by her construction crew of Studio H students. Emily uses design as a process rather than a product, a community catalyst rather than an artifact, and believes that smart design coupled with innovative education can change the world. She is a PopTech social innovation fellow, has spoken at TED, has appeared on the Colbert Report, and published a book on the power of humanitarian design.

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Education

Tags:

• architecture
• portland
• design
• lecture
• university of oregon
• humanitarian
• innovation