Saturday, October 21
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Featuring Christina Bollo, Rachael Diektus, and Chris Rudd
Christina Bollo
Panelist
Christina Bollo is the director of the Housing Specialization, with an integrated teaching and research agenda that focuses on ecological housing design for social justice. She is a social scientist who uses qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the influence of housing policy on housing design, and the relationships between housing design and human wellbeing. Her work has been published in the PLAN Journal, Housing and Society, Journal of Interior Design, Buildings, Research and Information, International Journal of Architectural Research, and Journal of Property Management. Her research has been funded by the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
Christina teaches active-learning, flipped-classroom courses on ecological housing design and architectural design studios that focus on housing for social justice. Previous to her appointment at the University of Oregon, she was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. H Christina has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Architecture from the University of Oregon; an M.Arch from the University of Oregon; and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a registered architect in Washington State and Illinois.
Rachael Dietkus
Panelist
Rachael Dietkus is a civic designer, licensed clinical social worker, and trauma-responsive design practitioner. She is the founder of Social Workers Who Design and works with design teams worldwide. She lives in Illinois with her spouse and daughter and is working on her first book with MIT Press. You can read more about Rachael and her work on LinkedIn and at Social Workers Who Design.
Chris Rudd
Panelist
Chris Rudd is an award-winning designer, community organizer, and founder of ChiByDesign, a Black-owned and people-of-color-led social and civic design firm. Chris has a deep background in social equity work, systems change, and youth development. He's worked with youth and community residents across Chicago, supporting them in designing new anti-racist infrastructures to enable an equitable future.
Chirs is a former Clinical Professor of Practice and Lead of Community-led Design at the Institute of Design (ID) at IIT, where his work focused on advancing the co-design practice and the creation of an anti-racist design field. Chris is a former Stanford Institute of Design (d.school) Civic Innovation fellow, a 2021 Illinois Science and Technology Coalition Researcher to Know, and a 2022 World-Changing Ideas honoree.