Pedagogical Beliefs

Questioning provides the opportunity to challenge certainty, engage complexity, and seek more possibilities.

Working with one’s mind-body-spirit is a powerful way to learn and brings about knowledge that can assist in repairing the fractures that exist in designs.

Utilizing dialogue with oneself and others, within and across differences, permits people to see their multiplicities, embrace new perspectives, and focus on transformation.

Crafting designs with theoretical frameworks and data that unite multiple parts anchors the significance of the design beyond the immediate problem that the design is trying to solve.

Centering the connection of our part to a greater whole promotes wholeness, sentient responsibility, and connection.

Revision -to take what we know now and to see differently- is a necessary learning, equity, and spiritual practice.

Practicing reciprocity -the giving and receiving in mutually valuable ways- stewards equity and sustainability for relationships and future design iterations.

Joy -the acknowledgment that we are part of a greater whole and have purpose and power- is the essential part of the design.