Kozak, Laura

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Person Preferred Name
Laura Kozak _none
Position
Faculty Member
Field of Activity
Place-based design
Participatory Design
Mutual Aid
Ecology
Reciprocity and Exchange
Email/Contact
kozak@ecuad.ca
Status
current
Affiliation Date
2006-04 to open end
Identifier (Other)
Laura Kozak
Laura Kozak (she/her) is a designer, educator, mother and organizer. With a focus on relational ways of working, she has built partnerships and collaborated on projects with artists, designers and organizations since 2005. A core interest in place-based design, including systems of reciprocity, exchange and locality, informs her research and teaching practice. She holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture from UBC (2012), a BFA from Emily Carr (2005) and currently teaches design in the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies. She is a Research Associate of the DESIS Lab and Shumka Centre. She has served on 221A’s Board of Directors since 2016. Laura lives and works in Vancouver on unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Nations.

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