§Talks & Lectures

Ideas worth standing up for.

I speak to rooms that want to think differently about people and place — universities, cultural institutions, conferences, and podcasts. One throughline runs under every talk: we were built for a world we stopped living in, and it can be measured, designed, and built back. In English or Spanish.

Topics

What I go deep on.

Each talk is built for the room — keynote, seminar, or studio crit. These are the spines.

Ecological psychology

We Were Built for a World We Stopped Living In

How modern environments strip out the sensory conditions the body evolved for — and what it costs us. The argument behind everything else. The premise →

Method

The Sensory Environment Score

Measuring how biologically functional a place is, across five dimensions — and designing toward the deficit your body is starving for.

Systems

Resource Intelligence

Reading water, land, and culture as one living system — and why abundance is the default of a well-built one, not the exception.

Water & place

Designing With Water in a Hot, Dry City

Catchment, native palette, shade as infrastructure, and what the Hill Country teaches about living with drought instead of against it.

Art & throughline

From Music to Land

Live, organic sound and built ecology as two fronts of one creative practice — and a first-generation story that starts in a market in Mexico.

Practice

The Integrated Builder

Design, ecology, and software in one pair of hands — what gets possible when the person reading the land also builds the systems that run it.

Formats

Ways to bring me in.

Lecture / keynote45–60 min, for institutions, conferences, and public programs.
University & studioGuest critique, seminar, or visiting lecture for design and ecology programs.
Podcast / interviewLong-form conversation. Remote or in studio.
Panel / moderationEcology, water, design, and culture at the intersection.
WorkshopHands-on: reading a site, or scoring a property against the Baseline.
BilingualAny of the above in English or Spanish.

Selected appearances

On the record.

Podcast · Mind the Roots

The Ecological Psychology of COVID-19

A conversation on how environment shapes the way people feel and function.

The record grows here as talks are given.

Booking

Bring the idea to your room.

For lectures, critiques, panels, residencies, or interviews — the fastest path is a direct note. The full press kit, bios, and assets are ready to go.