THE INTERTWINE ALLIANCE - Portland OR A Collaborative Partnership Access to parks and natural areas close to home and work has become increasingly important to our communities’ health and well being. The Intertwine Alliance is bringing together local agencies and groups to increase investment in The Intertwine. Alliance members are working together on five Alliance Initiatives: acquisition, active transportation, conservation, conservation education and the regional system.
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THE INTERTWINE ALLIANCE - Portland OR

A Collaborative Partnership

Access to parks and natural areas close to home and work has become increasingly important to our communities’ health and well being. The Intertwine Alliance is bringing together local agencies and groups to increase investment in The Intertwine. Alliance members are working together on five Alliance Initiatives: acquisition, active transportation, conservation, conservation education and the regional system.

The GOOD KART

image The Good Kart is a proposal from the MFA students in Collaborative Design at PNCA. It is a vehicle of support for Portland teens. It offers fresh food, engaging activities, and supportive advocates. 

Collaborative Design Team: Santigie Fofana-Dura, Sharon Dvora, Danielle Olson, and Mayank Sharma (Mentor)

PNCA Collaborative Design & Wieden + Kennedy The Oregon Sustainability Center PNCA’s collaborative design master’s students worked with Wieden + Kennedy to assist in research and ideation for interactive displays that explain the roll of The Oregon Sustainability Center. The students drew their inspiration form qualities of nature and categorized them into three groups, representation, aesthetics, and the story of the building. The ideas generated form the MFA students will be built into the design of the Action Center, a part of the structure dedicated to educational exhibits about the building. The OSC is the collaborative vision of a unique public/private partnership between city and state government, higher education, nonprofit organizations and the business community. At the core of this project is a 200,000+ square foot urban, mixed-use high rise positioned to become the regional hub for Portland and Oregon’s sustainability activities. The Center will also be the world’s first “Living Building” of its scale. Adhering to the prerequisites of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council’s Living Building Challenge, the Center will produce 100% of its energy on site through self-sustaining energy generation and distribution systems; its design also includes integrated water reuse (for black, grey and storm water management), net-zero energy consumption and no carbon footprint. Collaborative Design Team: Nick Barham(Mentor), Jamie Ostrov(Mentor), Matt Brown(Mentor), Emma Conley, Sharon Dvora, Laura DeVito, Halley Roberts, Joan Lundell, Danielle Olson, David Laubenthal, Lauren Schaefer, Chelsea Stephen and Katie Mays
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PNCA Collaborative Design & Wieden + Kennedy

The Oregon Sustainability Center

PNCA’s collaborative design master’s students worked with Wieden + Kennedy to assist in research and ideation for interactive displays that explain the roll of The Oregon Sustainability Center. The students drew their inspiration form qualities of nature and categorized them into three groups, representation, aesthetics, and the story of the building. The ideas generated form the MFA students will be built into the design of the Action Center, a part of the structure dedicated to educational exhibits about the building.

The OSC is the collaborative vision of a unique public/private partnership between city and state government, higher education, nonprofit organizations and the business community.

At the core of this project is a 200,000+ square foot urban, mixed-use high rise positioned to become the regional hub for Portland and Oregon’s sustainability activities.

The Center will also be the world’s first “Living Building” of its scale. Adhering to the prerequisites of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council’s Living Building Challenge, the Center will produce 100% of its energy on site through self-sustaining energy generation and distribution systems; its design also includes integrated water reuse (for black, grey and storm water management), net-zero energy consumption and no carbon footprint.

Collaborative Design Team: Nick Barham(Mentor), Jamie Ostrov(Mentor), Matt Brown(Mentor), Emma Conley, Sharon Dvora, Laura DeVito, Halley Roberts, Joan Lundell, Danielle Olson, David Laubenthal, Lauren Schaefer, Chelsea Stephen and Katie Mays


Source: oregonsustainabilitycenter.wordpress.com

Each day we flush our waist down treated drinking water, which is funny considering that in some parts of the world people are fortunate to have clean water to drink let alone shit in.  THE CLOACINA PROJECT with design and implementation from PNCA’s graduate students in Collaborative Design created an open source hardware platform for compostable toilets, urinals, hand sinks and privacy screens for portable low cost dry toilets. Recognizing that hardware is only half the problem the PNCA students addressed the user interface by creating a training protocol, help line using GroupMe and signage to assure the safe and hygienic conditions for the users.  - Molly Danielsson; PNCA Sanitation, Hygiene, and Integrated Technology (SHIT) Lab Mentor Collaborative Design Team: Dave Laubenthal, Emma Conley, Halley Roberts, Dustin Freemont, Morgan Ohara, Chelsea Stephen
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Each day we flush our waist down treated drinking water, which is funny considering that in some parts of the world people are fortunate to have clean water to drink let alone shit in. 

THE CLOACINA PROJECT with design and implementation from PNCA’s graduate students in Collaborative Design created an open source hardware platform for compostable toilets, urinals, hand sinks and privacy screens for portable low cost dry toilets. Recognizing that hardware is only half the problem the PNCA students addressed the user interface by creating a training protocol, help line using GroupMe and signage to assure the safe and hygienic conditions for the users. 

- Molly Danielsson; PNCA Sanitation, Hygiene, and Integrated Technology (SHIT) Lab Mentor

Collaborative Design Team: Dave Laubenthal, Emma Conley, Halley Roberts, Dustin Freemont, Morgan Ohara, Chelsea Stephen

Source: cloacina.org

Promotional video for KNOW WORK PROJECT

As one of the first assignments in the MFA in Collaborative Design curriculum at PNCA we were asked to design a “center” for complex problem solving. If it sounds complex…it was. We only brushed the surface of what could be a long arduous process of developing a community center out of an abandoned high school. Some of the unique aspects of the center would be the co-use of space between small businesses, a charter school and community spaces. There would be a large gardening operation that will supply vegetables and eggs to a restaurant run out of what was the cafeteria. There would be design build practices in the areas of solar engineering, architecture, information technology and permaculture. The completion of the project would surly lead to a renewal of the area in which the abandoned school is located. The name of the center is The Know Work Learning Lab or just Know Work Project for short.  

Collaborative Design Team: Santigie Fofana-Dura, Sharon Dvora, Morgan O’Hara, Katie Mays, Joan Lundell and Don Harker(Mentor)

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