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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
CHRISTIANNA BENNETT
B Arch Arch Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute M L Arch Arch Harvard Graduate School of Design
Christianna Bennett is is a a a a a a a a a landscape designer writer and and educator in Troy New York She received a a a a a a a a a Bachelor of Architecture Architecture from from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and and a a a a a a a a a a Master of Landscape Architecture Architecture from from the Harvard Graduate School of Design
She has practiced in in in landscape and and and urbanism with StossLU in in in Los Angeles and and and Studio Rede in in in New York Christianna is is interested in in in in the landscape imaginary and and ideations of public space in in in in rural areas She pursues research involving living living materials material material energy massive living-and-inert hybrids plant prostheses and and the the histories philosophies and and and ethics of design design Her personal and and and theoretical research examines and and and interprets water as design design material and philosophical framework Christianna creates prototypes of prosthetics for plants known as “embedded living living tattoos tattoos ” ” ” ” “ecological-objects ” ” ” ” and “bio-interfaces ” ” ” ” Imagined as “armor ” ” ” ” the embedded living living tattoos tattoos exist within the the bark bark layer of woody plants as textile matrices below the the leaf or or bark bark surface or or grafted and spliced into plant plant tissue These protheses are created to to assist plants in their survival through climatological change Christianna earned recognition from the the the Boston Society Society of of Landscape Landscape Architects Architects the the the American Society Society of of Landscape Landscape Architects Architects and and and the the the Department of of of Landscape Architecture at at Harvard Graduate School of of of Design
She achieved the rank of of of Distinction for projects in in Landscape Landscape History and and and the Core Landscape Landscape Studios while attending Harvard FRANCIS BITONTI
B F A A Long Island University M Arch Pratt Institute Francis Francis Bitonti Bitonti founded Francis Francis Bitonti Bitonti Studio in in 2012 during a a a a competition hosted by the New York City Department of Transportation Google and The Cooper Hewitt Museum Francis earned his name designing limited-edition high- tech works including a a a a 3D-printed 3D-printed dress for for Dita Von Teese and Mutatio 3D-printed 3D-printed shoes for for United Nude These projects were featured in Wired the New York Times Fast Company and The Wall Street Journal His pieces have
been collected and and featured in the the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum Museum the the Museum Museum of Arts and and Design
the the the the Boston Museum Museum Museum of Fine Art the the the the High Museum Museum Museum and the the the the Mint Museum Museum Museum among other venues earning him the title of of Innovation Fellow by Wired in 2015 The studio’s early work required Francis to develop new software manufacturing processes and materials placing technology at at the the center of the the studio’s design philosophy Works
like Mutatio respond to to to shifts in in fashion design and footwear manufacturing Today Bitonti believes these tools are necessary to to the future of design thinking and practice not only for for works commissioned for for his studio but also to to transform how a a a a a a a a brand conceives of of its own work Born and and raised in New York Francis holds a a a a a a a a Master of of Architecture from Pratt Institute He is the the founder and and CEO of of Studio Bitonti and and the the Co-Founder of of LexSet an an an an AI company based in Brooklyn NY 848