PORTFOLIO
2024, Fall, Graduate Sustainability Thesis Project
Fighting Wasted Food in San Juan Restaurants
(Spanish translation coming soon)
2024, Fall, Making the Business Case for Sustainability
Place Holder
2023, Fall, The Practice of Sustainable Design
Sustainable Merchandise Design
Researching the current options for promotional merchandise and how it can be made more sustainably.
2023, Spring, Fundamentals of Sustainable Design
Material Impact Assesment for Cactus Leather
Auditing cactus leather material to know if it is truly a sustainable material option for design.
2022, Fall, Systems Thinking
Restaurant Food Waste Recovery
Avoid food waste from restaurants by recovering surplus food to provide food security to underserved communities.
2023, Spring, Biomimetic Design
C2B (Challenge to Biology) Design Assignment
Reversible jacket design that goes from day to night. It is inspired by different nature functions to for better body temperature maintenance and the reversability feature reduces the need for more pieces of clothing therefore reducing not only closet space but overconsumption.
2024, Spring, Design for Climate Justice
Climate Justice Zine
Conciencia Verde (Green Conscience) is a Zine created to spread awareness of climate justice topics through journal annotations based on class topics and discussions.
2023, Fall, Collaborative Product Design
Marketing and Packaging Label Redesign
Created in a collaborative effort a Marketing and Label Redesign for the Client - SelfEco.
Team: Danielle DeKalb, Rita Caceros, Virginia Smith and Hilmarie Figueroa
2022, Fall, Visual Communications for Sustsainability
Food Waste in Puerto Rico
Provide stats regarding food waste in Puerto Rico and what small steps we can take to avoid that waste.
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