In this talk, Product Design Manager and accessibility advocate Sabrina Hall, discusses finding your voice in community and design.

Bio: Sabrina Hall is a creative leader, product design manager, professor and writer living in NYC. Currently she's a Product Design manager at Justworks. Sabrina is a Board Member for the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and previously served as co-chair of AIGA NY’s Mentoring program. She is also an Adjunct Professor at CUNY where she teaches design portfolio. She is an advocate for accessibility in design, creating opportunities for emerging designers and for equity within the field of design.

Aaron works in the fields of computational design and digital fabrication. His career has focused on combining these two practices to research new and bespoke methods of design and fabrication for a variety of industries. But he also has a strong passion for learning and sharing. The sharing of knowledge and collaboration of ideas is what he finds most inspiring, and hopes to inspire other designers to do the same. This lecture will discuss the importance of collaboration, open source projects and the impact they have had on his career. From the building temples in the desert, to building open source software for designers.

Aaron Porterfield is an Industrial Designer focused on computational design and digital fabrication. He is founder of F=F, a computational design and research consultancy, and the developer of the Crystallon plugin for generating lattice structures in Grasshopper. He received a BFA in Industrial Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. He has worked as an Industrial Designer and researcher in advanced manufacturing at FATHOM in Oakland, CA, and was an Artist in Residence at Autodesk Pier 9 in San Francisco, CA. 

This event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley Advanced Manufacturing Center (HVAMC) at SUNY New Paltz.