Artist Biography
Taylor is graduating this spring with a BFA in Interior Architecture and a minor in Business Administration. During her four years of her undergrad, she has been placed on the Dean’s List every semester and is a part of the academic honor society Kappa Pi. Taylor also has completed three internships, working at both residential and commercial design firms. She has been heavily involved in Endicott College’s Architecture & Design Club and is currently the Vice President. As a board member of ECAD and a student member of IIDA, Taylor had the opportunity to walk in the annual IIDA Fashion Show hosted at Big Night Live. She will continue her education at Endicott College next year and complete a Master’s Degree in Construction Management. Taylor strives to work at a commercial architectural design firm as an interior architect and construction manager, while continuing her professional development by completing her NCIDQ and LEED certifications.
Thesis Abstract
Taylor’s thesis was inspired by her life spent living in a coastal community and her passion for sustainability in relation to our marine environment. She spent her teenage years working as a lifeguard and a dock hand at a marina. Here she had first-hand experience seeing the pollution and mistreatment of our oceans and always wanted to make a difference through her architectural designs. Through the recent climate change, pollution, and overfishing crisis seizing our world, she invested months of research uncovering how we can effectively educate our public through feasible design solutions, therefore creating her Conservation Community Center, Seaway Society. These crises are having a destructive effect on our marine ecosystems, and yet the public still faces difficulty changing their lifestyles to help correct these frightening effects. One of the largest problems the public faces is a lack of education about these effects and how we can make a change. One of the most impactful ways in which the public can make a positive difference is by minimizing plastic consumption through sustainable retail shopping. Seaway Society mends this disconnect with informative exhibits and a sustainable retail store. Through the visually stimulating exhibits, the users are educated about climate change, pollution, and the overfishing crisis’, and understand why this matter is so prevalent in their lives and how we collectively can make a positive impact on our world.
Through education and awareness of climate change, pollution, and overfishing we can harness responsibility, use our voices and actions to make a change, and ultimately protect the longevity of our coastal communities and marine ecosystems.
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