This project assessed how plant-based meat substitutes can most effectively replace animal-based meat. I focus specifically on chicken, the most widely produced animal in the meat industry. 9,000,000,000 chickens are killed for meat every year in the United States, …
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Eat on the Street in Hong Kong
The itinerant hawkers and street food in Hong Kong (HK) are disappearing in just a few generations, HK’s mobile hawkers and street food are such an important characteristic of HK, but they keep losing value! Therefore, my project would …
Trash Mapping: Following the Paths of Our Waste
Seattle is a hub for sustainability. One important aspect of obtaining a sustainable society is to divert material from local landfills to alternatives such as recycling and composting. However, despite efforts to educate people about these choices, many people …
Health by Design
This project seeks to successfully integrate Evidence-Based Design strategies with J.Todd Robinson’s Hierarchy of Needs Supporting Human Health in the theoretical redesign of a standard impatient unit at Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Capitol Hill campus in Seattle, Washington. Specifically, …
A Glimpse into Seattle’s Independent Brewery Scene
Seattle is widely known for its extensive and very successful independent microbrewery industry. My senior project seeks to document the rich culture of Seattle’s beer scene through photography and interviews with local owners and brewers. To guide the trajectory …
Activist Poetics
“Activism” is often associated with aggression, extremism, romanticism, and destruction rendering it ineffective and polarizing. Given the unstable state of Earth’s ecosystems today, environmental activism needs to be as powerful as possible in creating change. My senior project investigated …
Somalia: Exploring Major Causes of Migration
Somalia’s challenges as a whole are extensive, seeming impossible to generate results. Social and political volatility and the coinciding of clan system with a teething democracy make Somalia’s circumstance a convoluted one. This complexity is further magnified by rapid …
Ending Homelessness: Effective Outreach to the Homeless Population
In metropolitan areas, homelessness is part of the community and also a problem to local government which need to address or end. To end the homelessness, the profit, nonprofit organizations and local government are providing shelter, mental health service …
Touch the Waterfront
Seattle’s downtown waterfront is undergoing a huge transformation. The new vision, dubbed “A Waterfront for All”, removes the elevated highway separating downtown Seattle from its waterfront and replaces it with a 26-block long park that will feature green public spaces, …
Renew Rethink Refill
Temporary use of space in urbanism can be roughly described as the reallocation of unused or underutilized space, which can act as a catalyst to enliven and rehabilitate cities and neighborhoods. Once a bottom-up, do-it-yourself strategy for the creative …