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Emily Pilloton-Lam
Emily Pilloton-Lam is an American architectural designer, builder, educator, and author known for her work as the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization, Girls Garage, formerly known as Project H Design.
Pilloton-Lam's educational initiative with then boyfriend Matt Miller in Bertie County, North Carolina was profiled in the 2013 documentary film, If You Build It.
Pilloton-Lam was born in 1981, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois and Marin County, California. Her father was born in France, while her mother was born outside of Chicago to immigrant parents from Qingdao and Hong Kong. From a young age, she remembers building structures out of a Quadro set, which she attributes to her early interest in design.
She attended UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California, graduating in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture. She completed her master's degree in architecture, interior architecture, and designed objects at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 2005.
After graduation, Pilloton-Lam founded the nonprofit Project H Design, which addressing "Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness" initiatives. It sought to promote design education and community-building.
"There are elements to our work and our approach that are not just involving the community but are really dependent upon the community’s vision for their own landscape. Design is not something most people would automatically look to as a way to fix a public education system, and yet, it’s done a lot for our students and their families—and beyond the classroom walls for the community".
Project H Design contained a program called Studio H, a design/build program for high school students that simultaneously provided college credits and allowed students to engage with full-scale projects for their community. Based out of Bertie County, North Carolina, one of the poorest counties in the state, Studio H was integrated into local high school curriculums as a means of redefining and reinventing vocational training for the 21st century. Studio H started with ideas of design literacy paired with building projects that would contribute to the students' local community. It used the design/build framework as a means of teaching critical thinking and creative skills that could support the students' future goals regardless of what kind of career or education they sought out after highschool.
In 2013, the documentary If You Build It tracked a year in the life of Studio H, focusing specifically on the Windsor Farmers Market project addressing the area's inherent contradiction as a food desert with rich agricultural legacy.
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Emily Pilloton-Lam
Emily Pilloton-Lam is an American architectural designer, builder, educator, and author known for her work as the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization, Girls Garage, formerly known as Project H Design.
Pilloton-Lam's educational initiative with then boyfriend Matt Miller in Bertie County, North Carolina was profiled in the 2013 documentary film, If You Build It.
Pilloton-Lam was born in 1981, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois and Marin County, California. Her father was born in France, while her mother was born outside of Chicago to immigrant parents from Qingdao and Hong Kong. From a young age, she remembers building structures out of a Quadro set, which she attributes to her early interest in design.
She attended UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California, graduating in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture. She completed her master's degree in architecture, interior architecture, and designed objects at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 2005.
After graduation, Pilloton-Lam founded the nonprofit Project H Design, which addressing "Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness" initiatives. It sought to promote design education and community-building.
"There are elements to our work and our approach that are not just involving the community but are really dependent upon the community’s vision for their own landscape. Design is not something most people would automatically look to as a way to fix a public education system, and yet, it’s done a lot for our students and their families—and beyond the classroom walls for the community".
Project H Design contained a program called Studio H, a design/build program for high school students that simultaneously provided college credits and allowed students to engage with full-scale projects for their community. Based out of Bertie County, North Carolina, one of the poorest counties in the state, Studio H was integrated into local high school curriculums as a means of redefining and reinventing vocational training for the 21st century. Studio H started with ideas of design literacy paired with building projects that would contribute to the students' local community. It used the design/build framework as a means of teaching critical thinking and creative skills that could support the students' future goals regardless of what kind of career or education they sought out after highschool.
In 2013, the documentary If You Build It tracked a year in the life of Studio H, focusing specifically on the Windsor Farmers Market project addressing the area's inherent contradiction as a food desert with rich agricultural legacy.
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