LivingPod Team
A design and research exploration between California College of the Arts, University of California at Davis, and University of California at San Francisco.
LIVING POD DESIGN TEAM
Kee Ryu is a Korean Architect and Designer, got his Bachelor's of Architecture at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, United States. Kee pursues sustainable architectural approaches at the urban scale. He is interested in the interaction of people with the urban environment
Lili Mao
Lili Mao is an Undergraduate architecture student at California College of the Arts. She is interested in human behavior and activity within its natural and built environment, and firmly believes that architecture offers opportunities to mediate the relationship between humans and nature.
Yitian Ma
Yitian Ma is an Undergraduate architecture student interested in the link between public engagement and design. She strives for practical and creative solutions that can operate at multiple scales. She has experience working with VR and interactive projection as new forms of architectural media.
Elizabeth Marley
Elizabeth Marley's MFA Design work at UC Davis is focused on research and design related to biological materials, ecological systems, and material culture. Her work has stretched beyond architecture to include design for public art, product design, renewable energy systems and modular construction, particularly as they apply to environmental responsibility and community building. Elizabeth Marley earned her B.Arch from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and recent MFA Design graduate from UC Davis. She has an accomplished design practice with examples of completed projects and affiliations installed at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Stanford University’s Anderson Collection, Black Rock Arts Foundation, City of San Francisco's Burrows St. Pocket Park, and more.
Athena Lin
Athena is a history major turned into a scientist. She is a graduate student at UCSF in Wallace Marshall's lab studying regeneration in the giant, single-cell, Stentor coeruleus. As with most extroverts, Athena loves working with people and engaging in public dialogue about science. Conversation pieces include, "Can a single-cell learn?" "How can individuals transition to a waste-free lifestyle?" "How does curiosity driven science help people?" After graduate school, Athena will be joining Christine Jacobs-Wagner's lab at Stanford, where she will continue working in and communicating science.
INSTRUCTOR TEAM
Margaret is an Associate Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, California. She is the Integrated Studio Coordinator and has developed the Buoyant Ecologies Studio curriculum which since 2015 has received five national AIA COTE Top Ten Student Awards for sustainability. Margaret is also a co-founder and co-director of the CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab that serves as a platform for collaborative research between designers, scientists, and manufacturers. The lab merges spatial practice with innovative techniques of material production and ecological research.The most recent project called the Float Lab, is currently moored in the Port of Oakland and designed to test a new type of resilient floating breakwater. In conjunction with the launch of the Float Lab, the Port awarded her with a Community Investment Grant to create an educational book called, A Guide to Field Identification, Marine Animals Coloring Book of the San Francisco Bay.
Evan is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at California College of Arts (CCA) and practicing architect. As co-founder and principal of Assembly, an architecture firm located in Berkeley California, Evan has worked on many scales of projects from furniture and museum installations to landscape planning and multi-story housing projects. Within CCA, he has specialized in integrated design studios focusing on novel design strategies for coastal resilience under the Buoyant Ecologies studio curriculum. This speculative design work has led to the formation of the Architectural Ecologies Lab at CCA (along with fellow professors Margaret Ikeda and Adam Marcus) and the fabrication and deployment of the Float lab in 2019. The Float Lab works with biological fouling to attenuate waves and create ecological habitats. The project received a 2018 Architect Magazine R+D award, a national 2019 AIA Innovation Award, and recently awarded a 2020 ASCA Faculty Design Award.
Bay Area designer and Assistant Professor of design at UC Davis. Beth is the director of Sol Design Lab, a design/build studio that specializes in solar charging stations for micromobility and ecological design. She has collaborated with public utilities, cities, and universities to provide elegant solar charging stations as a free public resource. She is currently a resident at the San Francisco Autodesk Technology Center in collaboration with the CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab. Recently, she participated in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, partnering with the award-winning team Public Sediment on their Unlocking Alameda Creek project.
Dyche Mullins studied electrical engineering and mathematics before becoming fascinated with cell biology during his doctoral work at the University of Kentucky. After postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins University and The Salk Institute for Biological studies, Mullins joined the faculty at UCSF. Since 2011, Mullins has also been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Work in the Mullins Lab focuses on the assembly and regulation of cytoskeletal networks - collections of molecules that self-assemble into complex structures that enable cells to transport molecular cargoes, change their shape, and propel themselves from place to place. Understanding how cells construct these internal molecular 'skeletons' is key to understanding a wide variety of biological processes and human diseases.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California San Francisco, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was awarded the Byers Distinguished Professorship in January 2018. He received his A.B. in Chemistry, summa cum laude, from Harvard College, his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral training at Yale University. His research focuses on the design principles of molecular circuits that govern cell decision-making and responses. His lab has made contributions in understanding the molecular machinery of cell signaling and how molecular modules have been used in evolution to build novel new behaviors. Most recently he has been a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology, exploring how these design principles can be harnessed to engineer cells with customized therapeutic response programs.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California San Francisco. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Yale, his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard, and completed his postdoctoral training at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. His lab seeks to re-engineer the building blocks of life (DNA, RNA, and proteins) to create novel scientific tools and therapeutic devices. He previously received Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” award, designed to honor researchers who “enhance our lives and stretch our imaginations”. In 2017, Dr. Douglas was named by Barack Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Maia Yoshida
Researcher in the Wendell Lim Lab at UCSF, where she engineers immune cells to perform novel and useful functions, such as seeking out and destroying cancers. In addition to her research, she creates and coordinates science outreach programs for Bay Area museums and schools. She is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a past participant in the Biodesign Challenge. She was the first Artist-in-Residence at Epibone, a bone-reconstruction biotech startup company, and has worked with BioRealize, a biological product design company, to create algae-based carbon dioxide biosensors for use in textiles.
WEB DESIGN
Undergraduate student of the Industrial Design Program at California College of the Arts.
Designer of the Living Pod website.
CONTRIBUTORS
Molly Morse
Founder & CEO
Mango Materials
Amanda Jacobs
Fermentation Assistant
Mango Materials
John Oliver
Marine Biologist/Benthic Lab
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Kamille Hammerstrom
Marine Biologist/Benthic Lab
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Andrew Davis.PE
Naval Architect
Tri-Coastal Marine
Manu Prakash
Planktonscope: Prakash Lab, Stanford University Plankton Planet NGO, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France
Joshua Van Heidrich
CCA BArch Fall 2019 student Constructed Ecologies
Connie Zunino
Teacher, 5th grade 2019-2020
Prescott Elementary School, Oakland, California
Mary Ellen Hannibal
Humanities Professor
California College of the Arts
Autodesk Technology Center
San Francisco
Eldy Lazaro
MFA Design Student
University of California at Davis