Climate Action Museum Internship

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After my freshman year at CMU, I had the opportunity to intern for the country's seventh climate-focused museum! Working directly under Doug Farr, owner of Farr Associates and author of well-known urban design books "Sustainable Urbanism" and "Sustainable Nation," I volunteered time to help the museum get on its feet for the grand opening on June 21st 2023, and continued working for the rest of the summer. Splitting time between the Farr Associates office and Climate Action Museum space, I designed a variety of visual resources for the museum and assisted in constructing the museum space.

I created this graphic to represent how our consumer markets should shift to a circular economy model instead of a linear economy model, exemplified through the "linear perspective" and "circular perspective." The idea is that you should "expand your vision" to educate yourself on the differences between these two systems. This graphic was then inserted into the larger graphic seen below.

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The largest portion of me and the other interns' time was spent drafting up a graphic to explore the unsustainability of our consumer markets in the United States of America. I loved working on this because it is exactly what I am passionate about!

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This graphic was originally created by another intern, and I adapted it by adding a few additional methods of travel and applying the museum's brand guidelines.

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Given brand guidelines and required dimensions, I was assigned to mockup an easily-digestible analysis of the sustainability features of a variety of sustainable architecture projects in the Chicago area.

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Given brand guidelines and required dimensions, I was assigned to mockup an interactive activity involving downtown Chicago buildings' insulation abilities and infrared photos of them.

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A variety of other graphics I created for the museum, one of which you can see plastered on the donation box in the bottom right corner.

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Various photos I took of process work, me with my other interns, and my desk at the office!

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