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BIOA designer, builder, high school educator, and unwavering optimist, Emily Pilloton founded the nonprofit design firm Project H to use creative capital to improve communities and public education from the inside out. Since January 2008, Pilloton and her partner Matthew Miller have worked to apply appropriate and inspiring built solutions as catalysts for social change. Project H's initiatives range from small local interventions (water collection and reuse, architectural schemes for foster care facilities, craft-based homeless enterprises) to deep engagements in the public education system. And now with Studio H, which is based in Eastern North Carolina's Bertie County, Pilloton and Miller are working with junior-year high school students to "design/build" real-world projects that benefit the community, such as a local farmer's market and 21st century chicken coops. Trained as an architect and product designer with a penchant for tinkering and "the kind of math most people hate," Pilloton is the author of Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People. She was also a 2009 PopTech social innovation fellow and has presented at TEDGlobal. She holds a bachelors degree in architecture from the University of California Berkeley and a master's degree in product design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
