_RESEARCH INTERESTS



_The architecture of complex systems integration; "architectures"

_Strategic leadership and communities of practice; architectures connecting academia and industry research and expertise

_Ecological analysis, building technologies, intelligent building strategies, building envelope

_Clean environments. Environments where challenge tested protocols for containment are desired

_Bio-surety environments, public health, pain management and therapeutic environments

_Game theoretic model architectures; game theory principles to collaborative literacy, learning and research endeavors
 

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Research
My research considers General Systems Theory principles and environmental influences contributing to, or mediating, disease spread. Most notably this work seeks to build back bio-diversity as a first line of defense against disease spread by determining the characteristics of "the never-plowed-prairie" (a metaphorical architecture) as a resilient perennial ecosystem found in any self-sustaining system, be it an ecological, agricultural polyculture, or constructed/ construed socio-, economic or cultural. I am currently working on three main applications of Systems Theory and complexity thinking (indeterminate and non-reductive thinking) related to disease dynamics in this way.

Architecture and building physics
Our work in this area includes:
* Generative mappings of airborne disease corridors synchronizing climate trends, urban density and sprawl, land use management, globalization and trade, seasonal migration and till agricultural production.
* Exploring emergent solutions in design for filtration, capture and eradication of particulate matter contributing to disease spread in poultry agricultural production facilities.

Characterizing the "never-plowed-prairie"
Much of our work in this area involves:
* Asset mapping "the specificity of a situation to actualize its potential", a process that advances policy research in revitalization and growth in which internal systems are used to empower communities and individuals to define resiliency and sustainability from the inside out.
* Complexity thinking involves a paradigm shift that seeks to know things in an irreducible way, thus using emerging and advancing knowledge aggregation tools and technologies that allow co-evolutionary feedback, evolving probability, and asset mapping natural systems ecologies.

Game theoretic strategies
This work explores intellectual tools not frequently accessed by traditional architectural investigations, that of Game Theory and the principle of cooperation (managing shared material and non-material finite resources), competition (striving to leverage our own self-interest) and strategy (choice and consequence) in a range of Common Pool Resource dilemmas.
* Of particular interest is the opportunity to shift the value of resources (take affordable housing, for instance) as a commodity (exchange value) to housing as an ethical responsibility (relational value) in a time = value paradigm.
* We are also involved in the design of a deployable message conduit to disseminate de-sensationalized, useful information to the "worried well" – the friends and family of people impacted by natural disasters such as an epidemic. Networked projects such as the Worried-Well are designed to be distributed information systems organized around existing, credible and sustainable standard protocols and interfaces to provide capabilities that would not otherwise be available in communication and media infrastructure.