Session 1: Tuesday, September 8, 2020

What Can a Playground in Hawai’i Look Like?
Calvin Bulan, D.Arch

Being able to play outside lately has been hard, and let’s be real, playgrounds today are a little boring. What do playgrounds look like here in Hawaiʻi? What do they look like around the world? How can kids design a playground, which is for them after all! Calvin recently submitted his D.Arch dissertation titled Hawaiʻi’s Play Solution: Framework for Tackling Vandalism and Placelessness in Playground Design for Communities in Hawaiʻi.

Session 2: Thursday September 10, 2020

Things We Can Build With
Celeste Guarin, D.Arch student

You can build with sand, you can build with cans! Learn about different kinds of unexpected materials that people use to build incredible structures. See the large sand sculptures that students and professionals build each year during the annual AIAS Sand Castle Esquisse!

Session 3: Thursday September 15, 2020

Rethinking the Design of Classrooms
Kristoffer Jugueta, Inform Architects

New ways of learning and constantly changing conditions require new approaches to designing our learning environments. Kris will share his work on his D.Arch dissertation "Rethinking the Design of Portable Classrooms" and explore how to design a classroom-to-go!

Session 4: Thursday September 17, 2020

All I Really Need to Know About Project Management I Learned In Grade School
Amy Salvador, SSFM

Flash news!!!  The skills you are learning now can be applied to a fulfilling career in engineering or project management.  Be prepared to engage in a fun and challenging activity that will help you to see how!

Session 5: Tuesday September 22, 2020

Designing Pools in Paradise

Derek Bacigal, Akamai Facilities Consulting

Everyone loves to beat the heat by splashing in the pool! In this session, students will learn about operations and key components to pools. They will explore different styles of pool design and have the opportunity to design their dream pool!

Session 6: Thursday September 24, 2020

What is a “Sustainable Landscape”?
Bernice Fielding, WATG

This class session will talk about ways to create opportunities for sustainable gardening in an urban environment. Students will learn what “sustainable” means to their specific community and how they can identify forgotten spaces and design something that can benefit their physical health and the health of the Hawaiian Islands.

Session 7: Tuesday September 29, 2020

‘My Home’ - A Creative Design Process!

Geoffrey Lewis, Geoffrey Lewis Architecture

We will share a brief overview of our design process for creating 'Your Home". An introduction to hand sketching & 3D computer modeling and how these tools help create wonderful homes that work for your family!

Session 8: Thursday October 1, 2020

Learning from Our Mistakes: The Engineering Design Spiral
Charlie Field, Martin Defense Group

Designing boats takes a lot of work and it also requires us to answer lots of questions. As marine engineers and naval architects, we are faced with problems that we don’t always know the answer to – until we try something out. Our products are never perfect on the first try, and it is through the process or trial and error that we learn how to improve. In this talk, Charlie Field will take you through a typical design process for building a boat and all the fun, exciting, and challenging opportunities that come with it.