Following the Money
From stacks to nodes: rethinking how we fund projects of purpose.
Chasing Arrows
Future-forward. System-smart. Human-first. Housing & Energy-focused. Building new systems that make the existing systems obsolete.
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Around The House
Getting Beyond the Part We Can See
The Campus That Never Graduates
Tinkering Our Way Into The Future We Deserve.
The Things We Never Learned to Count
What I discovered while teaching a machine how a community works.
New Foundations
Why Geology, housing, and regenerative agriculture may be asking the same design questions.
Value-Created Modeling
Why Your Project Doesn't Pencil
Universal Basic Everything
How access stabilizes life, and why ownership changes everything
The Perilous Pursuit of Cheap Housing
The true impact of our obsession with lowering the price of housing while increasing the cost of living.
The Lights Are On, But No One Can Own.
How America became wealthier than ever while millions of households feel less stable than before.
How Should We Live?
William Morris and the design of everyday life.
BUILD
What happens when universities, builders, technologists, policymakers, and communities stop talking about the future and start constructing it together.