This Thursday, November 17th, the first ever public exhibition of Studio H’s work will open at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon. The exhibition, entitled “Studio H: Design. Build. Transform.” will highlight the products and process of our first year of the Studio H program, including the chicken coops and farmers market pavilion. We hope folks in the Portland area will attend! We will also be in Portland for a public lecture at the Ziba Auditorium on Friday, December 2nd at 6pm. Below is more information from the museum’s website, or you can visit the webpage for more, or download a press release here.

As founder and director of Project H Design, Emily Pilloton exemplifies an emerging generation of designers who believe that design has the power to positively change the world, but that new strategies are required to effect those changes. This exhibition asks viewers to reflect on how that process can teach the next generation of designers to transform the world for themselves. Artifacts from Studio H, the project in rural Bertie County, North Carolina where Pilloton and partner Matthew Miller teach design thinking to high-school students, will be on display to illustrate how a socially engaged design process can result in significant and positive solutions. Together, Pilloton and Miller engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation.