People
URBANFRAME exists because a circle of educators, practitioners, alumni, and community partners have contributed to creating a resilient field-based studio culture for young people. We are especially grateful to Professor Lawrence Sass for championing this work and to MIT's School of Architecture for generously providing the studios and maker spaces as part of its commitment to youth development and urban research.
Founder & Director
Daniel Hewett is an architect and teacher. He founded URBANFRAME to give young people opportunities to observe, design, and build in response to needs within their communities.
He is the founder and of OCULAR, a strategic design consultancy guiding organization and institutions. He was the co-founder of the Center for Complexity at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he led Partnered Academic Research and taught adaptive re-use and landscape architecture. He lectures in the Special Program on Urban and Regional Studies at MIT. His current research, the Fairwitness Project, examines the systemic wisdom residing in extreme environments.
He received his MArch from Rice University. He serves as a critic on juries in the US and abroad.
Staff, Teaching Fellows, and Volunteers
Meghan Archer
Dan Belknap
Judy Belliveau
Alper Besen
Scott Carpenter
Rob Cayer
Judy Chang
Noah Corin
Aaron Corin
Katie Degregorio
Michael Fee
Greg Gale
Sarah Gould
Michael Griffen
Oz Hewett
Noah Hupert
Ian Jackson
Jen James
Richa Kapse
Tyler Kiggins
Kristen Lee
Peter Merrill
Nawaz Namthewala
Larry O'Brian
Mike Prattico
Maria Rader
Christine Rankin
Chloe Rein
Lawrence Sass
JD Sassaman
Max Scoppettone
Jack Sherman
Kate Sherrer
Meena Sonea
David Swetz
Jennifer Taylor
Bridgette Treado
Mariel Villere
Shalini Vimal
Mary Wentworth
Joe Yacobellis
Participants
