He has developed ecosystem-level research and monitoring programs for four large temperate rainforest watersheds. In addition to more than a decade of significant work at Illahee, Schoonmaker has worked as Vice President of Interrain Pacific and as Science Director at Ecotrust, where he worked with community, business, academic and governmental sectors to develop and disseminate ecosystem and bioregional scale information. Illahee will continue, as it has since 1998, to provide a forum for environmental innovators through evidence-based, policy-relevant inquiry, but now with an additional partner in PNCA that will help translate inquiry into action. While serving as Chair of the MFA in Collaborative Design, Schoonmaker will maintain an active strategic role at Illahee that will strengthen the relationship between the two organizations, as well as Illahee’s ongoing collaborators. It’s brilliant in conception, and there’s nothing quite like it that I can find anywhere else. Schoonmaker believes, and PNCA agrees, that graduates of the Collaborative Design program will be highly sought after by organizations in both the private and nonprofit sectors.Īs Schoonmaker says, “It’s that rare program that has the opportunity to ask penetrating questions in a team setting, and to design solutions with community members. Many of today’s most devastating issues, the so-called “wicked problems,” are those whose ongoing impacts are seriously debilitating to the ecological and social viability of the planet and whose proposed solutions regularly either worsen the problems or create new ones in their place. The MFA in Collaborative Design is an interdisciplinary program that builds systems and solutions using visual thinking, design ecologies and other methodologies to tackle significant problems through collaboration. “Let’s face it,” Schoonmaker says, “science and policy are stuck with regard to many environmental and social challenges. Schoonmaker is eager to foster a similar spirit of collaboration at PNCA.
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At Illahee, Schoonmaker instituted a well-known Lecture Series where each year visiting speakers, all distinguished in their fields, and 500 of Portland’s leaders and citizens, unite around a collaboratively chosen topic. Schoonmaker’s long history as an advocate for responsible environmental policy has made him aware of the limits of science and policy.
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With an MA and PhD in Biology from Harvard and an accomplished record of field research, policy work and teaching, Peter brings an outstanding professional and educational background to his new work at PNCA.” “Peter is known to many in Portland through his exceptional work as the founder and president of Illahee, a forum for environmental policy. He appreciates fully that the world’s most intractable problems require solutions that are at once creative and collaboratively determined,” said Tom Manley, President of PNCA.
Schoonmaker to lead this groundbreaking program. Peter Schoonmaker as Chair of the Master of Fine Arts in Collaborative Design program. PORTLAND, OR – J– Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) announces the appointment of Dr.
Environmental Scientist and Illahee Founder Peter Schoonmaker Named Founding Chair of New Pacific Northwest College of Art Program
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