Designing With the Desert – Fluidity and Form: Navigating Arid Design Realities

Engage with us in this dialogue, and contribute to redefining our relationship with the Sonoran Desert. Together, let's build a foundation for a future where designing with the desert is not just a practice but a way of inhabiting this land.

Brie Smith, program head and clinical assistant professor of interior design, The Design School

Felipe Mesa, assistant professor, The Design School

Wanda Dalla Costa, Director of the Indigenous Design Collaborative and institute professor, The Design School
“Indigenous Placemaking + Design” 

Kelly Wiehe, Project Manager, City of Tucson I Tucson Water
“Water and Design Bounded Together”  

Michele Shelor, Landscape architect, principal, Colwell and Shelor
“Water and the Celebration of the Senses”

Philip Weddle, FAIA, Weddle Gilmore Architects
“Desert Edges and Boundaries”

Carlos A. Murrieta, AIA, NCARB, NOMA, co-founder/principal, Merge Architectural Group
“Diversity in Design”

Bilge Merve Aktaş, Designer and textile maker
“The Performative Power of Materiality”

Embark on a transformative journey into the past, present, and future of our relationship with the desert with our upcoming series, "Designing With the Desert" at The Design School. Join the conversation as we critically and carefully explore the intricate and complex relationship between humanity and the resilient desert landscape.