PORTFOLIO SAMPLE 2022 by csloan512

PORTFOLIO Colleen Sloan

EDUCATION

May 2022

Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA Master of Landscape Architecture

COLLEEN SLOAN csloan@gsd.harvard.edu

(512) 422-7841

327 Highland Ave, Unit 1, Somerville, MA 02144

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Major: Urban and Environmental Planning; Minor: Architecture, Dean’s List ‘Sustainable Europe’ Study Abroad Program

December 2017 June 2017

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Research Assistant Jill Desimini, Harvard GSD Head Teaching Assistant Jill Desimini, Core IV Landscape Studio, Harvard GSD Teaching Assistant Jill Desimini, From Fallow, Harvard GSD Research Assistant Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Harvard GSD Teaching Assistant Karen Janosky, ETT II, Harvard GSD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Accenture Federal Services Arlington, VA

June 2020 - Present January 2022 - Present August 2021 - December 2021 June 2021 - December 2021 January 2021 - May 2021

November 2018 - July 2019

Management Consulting Senior Analyst • Developed sales growth strategy for various federal accounts, and research for the HUD’s Strategic Plan items. • Team Lead for Accenture’s internal Adobe team.

National Capital Planning Commission Washington, D.C.

Intern, Policy and Research • Created a guide to diagnose the inefficient reviewing process of penthouse plans in D.C. by analyzing policies pertaining to the Height Act, D.C. Zoning, and the Comprehensive Plan.

June 2016 - August 2016

Lyall Design Architects Norfolk, VA

June 2015 - August 2015

Intern, Architectural Design • Created graphics for current projects, using primarily SketchUp and Adobe Photoshop.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE, AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS

Sloan, Colleen. “Figure 2.3”, Drawing contribution for Jill Desimin’s written piece in The Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research, edited by Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery, forthcoming 2022.

I bring a combination of my landscape architecture education as well as my background in urban planning and architecture to reimagine public space through design. I am interested in the opportunities for interaction among people, material ecology, and infrastructure/industry, and how these three forces interact to renegotiate the boundaries of public and private space and produce new ecological systems.

Featured Project Nomination for Future of the American City Initiative Harvard GSD Featured Projects for Green New Deal Superstudio Harvard GSD End of Semester Nominated Work Harvard GSD NextGen Change Adobe Super Users Team Lead Accenture Member of the Raven Society University of Virginia

Spring 2022 Spring 2021 Fall 2020 + Spring 2021 Fall 2020 December 2018 - July 2019 June 2016 - Present

SKILLS Software: Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Bison, Lumion, ArcGIS Pro and ArcMAP, SketchUp Physical Models: 3D Printing, CNC Routing, Laser Cutting, Casting, Drafting, Sketching

CONTENTS 01_WASTE AS COMMONS Harvard GSD, Core III: Dredgescape: Forms of Borrowed Matter

05-08

Harvard GSD, Core IV: Community Power: Generating Collective Capital through Material Interception

09-12

02_HISTORY AS CATALYST Harvard GSD, Option Studio: The Lincoln Avenue Cookbook

14-17

03_DESIGN AS PROCESS University of Virginia, Architecture Core I: POD Living Washington University in St. Louis, Architecture Discovery: Fold + Tuck

19 20-21

01_WASTE AS COMMONS

DREDGESCAPE: FORMS OF BORROWED MATTER Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core III 2020 Author: Colleen Sloan Instructor: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro New Bedford, Massachusetts has become a center for material exchange where seafood derived from outside the harbor is processed and exported to consumers, while its toxic sediment, laden with PCBs, is dredged and exported for burial in a landfill outside of Detroit, Michigan. This project seeks to reimagine the potential for waste material as a resource for new types of public spaces and material commons.

2 2.5 years PCB Disposal Site Detroit, MI

New Bedford, MA 2 years

1.5 years Possible future islands

1 year 0.5 years fishing catch locations seafood exports PCB dredge exports 320 km

New Bedford, MA - 2

195 m

The sites of intervention in both Detroit, MI and New Bedford, MA are situated within this material exchange of high value The proposed intervention for New Bedford outer harbor, includes an archipelago of spoil islands, reimagining the lifecycle seafood imports into and out of New Bedford and the exporting of highly toxic dredge material to a landfill in Detroit. of dredge waste. Detroit, MI

New Bedford, MA - 1

2080 sea level

Phased timeline Phase 0: Prepare the ground

processed sediment exits Phase 3

Phase 1: 1 year Oats + Field Peas Phase 2: 2-3 years Sorghum-Sudangrass + AM Fungi Phase 3: 4+ years American Beech and Sugar Maple

Phase 2

community run nursery

Phase 3 Phase 3 Phase 1 Phase 0

raw sediment enters

In Detroit, Michigan, the landfill that houses a significant portion of contaminated dredge from New Bedford, reintroduces, Lastly, the logistics site of New Bedford inner harbor includes the processing of dredged material that is used as fill once ubiquitous to the area, Maple and Beech trees in a phased capping and planting scheme to create a public park. for the archipelago and a public park and nursery for the planting of the islands.

The layering of Maple and Birch trees in the final phases of the Detroit landfill not only echo the layering of toxic material within the landfill, but make connections to the layered effect of the archipelagos in New Bedford, hundreds of miles away. 07

Primary dredging channel

Non-commercial barges can navigate between islands

2060

2080

2100

2040

The spoil islands envelop the harbor. The constructed sides of the islands that face New Bedford are planted according to coastal slope zones, and are imagined to shift over time as sea level rise meets each height in the coming years.

Natural deposition occurs on the New Bedford-facing side creating new underwater ecologies

COMMUNITY POWER Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core IV 2021 Authors: Colleen Sloan + Morgan Vought A radical shift in the tech industry’s current chain of extraction and waste is needed to ensure social and environmental justice in South Boston and globally. This project harnesses and amplifies community power, defined as the community’s ability to thrive and to maintain resilience in the face of change, by bringing industry, government and community together to rewire sites of consumption, production, and waste processing.

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

The project creates a Community Coalition around material exchange and sharing with five key sites of intervention. Through the Coalition’s key principles of Repair, Reimagine, Transform, Convene and Regrow, current conceptions of public and private space and waste are rewired through metabolic flows creating a new network of material ecology corridors in South Boston.

Regrow

Repair

Reimagine

Convene

Transform

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

Introducing the notion of care and cycles of waste and regrowth in the home that extend outward into shared spaces.

02_HISTORY AS CATALYST

THE LINCOLN AVENUE COOKBOOK Harvard Graduate School of Design, Option Studio led by Gina Ford + Rhiannon Sinclair 2021 Authors: Colleen Sloan + Scarlet Rendleman The Lincoln Avenue Cookbook is a collaboration with local community members of New Rochelle, NY, Walter Brown and Linda Tarrant-Reid to piece together the cultural history of the Lincoln Avenue Neighborhood, prior to the desegregation and destruction of Lincoln Elementary School and construction of Memorial Highway that cleared homes and local businesses. This cookbook serves as not only a repository of food and culture, but also a proposal for a healthy and inclusive future for the Lincoln Avenue Neighborhood. Link to full book: https://issuu.com/virginia277/docs/sloan_rendleman_ lincolncookbook_final

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

Below, is a diagram of the goals and activities of Linda’s grow! Community Garden in New Rochelle. We used these principles as our guide in the redesign of 4 significant public spaces in the neighborhood, at right. Given that our focus for the project was around food and culture, our designs for these spaces are organized in the book by season and in harmony with seasonal food production activities.

Left: Diagram by Scarlet Rendleman Right: Drawings by Colleen Sloan + Scarlet Rendleman

Throughout the cookbook are family recipes from our two community advocates as well as proposed locations (below) where items may be sourced, publicly available kitchens, and new public spaces to eat and gather around food.

Drawing by Scarlet Rendleman and Colleen Sloan

One of the spaces of intervention is in Lincoln Park, where the Lincoln School once stood and where Linda’s grow! Community Garden currently resides. The proposal includes seating, BBQ grills, new paths of circulation, a memorial for the school, and a greenhouse to extend the growing season.

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

03_DESIGN AS PROCESS

ARCHITECTURE CORE I: POD LIVING University of Virginia, Core I 2015 Authors: Colleen Sloan, Cory Page, Sicheng Zhou For this studio project, my group designed a 100% recyclable living pod. We used recycled Pepsi crates from the nearby Pepsi plant in Charlottesville, VA as our material of choice. Below are studies in the tectonics and light qualities of the material during the design process.

FOLD + TUCK Washington University in St. Louis, Architecture Discovery Course 2013 Author: Colleen Sloan The rules from Phase 01 were translated onto a plan that would inform the design of a three-dimensional cube that would become a folly, below, where line weights determine the cuts, folds and tucks.

In Phase 01 of this three-week project, I created a set of rules, above, to abide by based on the origin of a line and where it intersects on the page. This criteria became the basis for the phases that followed.

The same set of rules were applied again to a landscape to situate the folly upon, above.

Lastly, the plan was translated into a landscape comprised of balsa wood.The lines that form both the folly and the landscape tuck under, into and over themselves blurring the distinction between site and structure.