bio

Meredith Sattler is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a LEED BD+C. She received her PhD from Virginia Tech, her Masters of Architecture and Masters of Environmental Management degrees from Yale University, and her Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College. Trained as a scholar, an architect, an environmentalist, and an artist, her current research and teaching interests include conceptualizations of dynamic constructed environmental systems in historic and current contexts; interdisciplinary structure and practice within functional territories between design and the ecological sciences; and the designer’s influence on the health of natural environment-technology-human interactions. Her dissertation in Science and Technology Studies [STS] titled “Constructing an Anthropocene: Organizing Life Through Logics of Enclosure at Biosphere 2, 1984-1994,” examines the Biosphere 2 enclosure experiments through the Biospherians’ scientific knowledge production—design—inhabitation trajectory in order to formulate a novel STS analytical framework: Logics of Enclosure. Previously, Ms. Sattler taught at the Louisiana State University School of Architecture where she focused on coastal sustainability, worked for Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, and in the Film Industry. She is founder and lead designer of cambioform, a furniture and environmental design studio, and has exhibited and published internationally. Her awards include the Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship at the Norfolk Yale Summer School of Art, the Henry Luce Foundation Award in Restorative Environmental Design, and the 2012-13 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award.

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