Professional experience includes design, construction engineering, and permit drawings for: public art and modular urban furniture, social furniture and sculpture, energy systems enclosure and/or racking design, water affects and sustainable systems, technical illustration & drafting, code compliance & permitting processes, architectural rendering, alternative construction methods, product design & manufacturing, CSA & garden planning, interactive installations, educational exhibits, environments design and production design, project management, and many more topics ranging from generating concepts to figuring out how to construct and make it happen.
Specialties: modular systems design, interactive environments design & development, rendering & drafting; technical illustration; small business sustainable practices & green manufacturing management, renewable energy & integrated energy storage systems for buildings, community building; problem solving, opportunity sharing & space planning.
Senior Designer & Project Manager @ From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) TweetHaus - Co-founder, Project Coordinator @ TweetHaus, a collaboration between the FLUX Foundation and community partners, is a public art + ecology project focused on citizen science, interactive learning and collaboration. It fosters community through the education and implementation of design, construction and installation of bird habitats and public pathways in urban environments with K-12 schools. From November 2011 to Present (4 years 2 months) Co-founder/Design Engineer @ Still on-going as side project in 2014.
We implement research and emergent design strategies for inhabitable spaces and environments that grow and build themselves over time...with a lil' creative guidance from us.
Currently testing out some interesting building materials!
Please contact directly for more information and/or to collaborate. From December 1997 to Present (18 years 1 month) Design Associate / Project Manager @ From August 2012 to July 2014 (2 years) Lead Product Designer @ From September 2011 to May 2013 (1 year 9 months) Advisory Board Member @ Advisor on strategies, themes, and practices for sustainable productions. From February 2011 to April 2013 (2 years 3 months) Architectural Consultant @ www.greengurus.net
Commercial/Residential Consultant for sustainable design, new construction, as-built Life Cycle Analysis assessments
TV series with Mario Van Peebles and Ed Bagley, Jr. by Equator HD Television on renovating home to meet energy efficiency and green building standards. From December 2008 to December 2012 (4 years 1 month) Board Vice President & Business Development @ Our mission is to provide a platform for entrepreneurial
women to share their knowledge, talents and compassion with communities in need.
The sky is lit with the empowering knowledge and tools shared with communities to be self-sustaining.
Lighting Up the Sky is a group of women implementing "learn by doing" & skill-sets on technology, agronomy, nutrition, architecture, business development, public relations, graphic design, food policy, event marketing and leadership... and more. From September 2009 to August 2011 (2 years) Sustainable Projects Committee & Program Design Lead @ Lighting Up the Sky is a group of women implementing "learn by doing" & skill-sets on technology, agronomy, nutrition, architecture, business development, public relations, graphic design, food policy, event marketing and leadership... and more.
Project examples:
-Collaborative garden structures & outdoor classroom designs with Common Ground, non-profit in New Orleans
- workshop planning for sustainable community outreach projects
-planning, materials and design proposals for educational community installations
-Collaboration/Networking with other Non-profit in New Orleans & California From May 2009 to August 2011 (2 years 4 months) Architectural Consultant @ As-built drawings of 99-year old storefront, 4-storey, arts community residence
Project manager for permitting & construction for on-going renovations
Sustainable landscape planning & design, compost, grey & rainwater irrigation, roof garden planning
Green consulting, Life Cycle Analysis, 2-year strategy with budget From August 2006 to October 2010 (4 years 3 months) Construction & Fabrication Volunteer @ Ongoing involvement with large scale, public art projects for Flux Foundation involves volunteer construction, 2D & 3D graphics, production design for fund raising events and anything else they need extra hands for to install beautiful things that bring community together. From June 2010 to September 2010 (4 months) Product Designer & Manufacturing Consultant @ Sheet metal enclosure design and fabrication manager.
Designed and created 3D catalog of sheet metal parts for:
-Electrical distribution structures & sheet metal design
-Renewable energy system racking design & manufacturing
-UL, NECA, & NEMA design & code compliant designs
Programmed machine code and coordinate manufacturing for custom sheet metal enclosures for municipal utilities and private companies. From January 2010 to April 2010 (4 months) Industrial Designer & Production @ Contract work included:
electrical enclosure prototyping and fabrication documentation, sheet metal and integrated structural system design, technical illustration and specification documentation, published patent illustrations & diagrams, UL/ETL document preparation and approval, print and web ready marketing material, graphic design & production design. From 2009 to 2010 (1 year) Lead Product Designer & Architectural Consultant @ Product designer & manufacturing manager for sand-cast, die-cast, aluminum extrusion components & rapid prototyping.
Coordinated & managed all structural & product designs, green manufacturing, and drafting for modular, scalable, "grid-free" energy systems with the use of integrated, intelligent Lithium-ion based energy storage systems.
Designing includes product design, clean energy systems design, and architectural design; from concept to design/build, manufacturing, new construction from consumer electronics to municipal utilities. From August 2008 to November 2009 (1 year 4 months) Intern/Volunteer @ www.emanate.org
Job includes diverse tasks producing technical drawings, installation constructs, vacuum forming from 3D digital models, materials donation sourcing, non-profit liaison for procuring products for experimentation in building technologies
Currently participate as volunteer for experimental building projects. From January 2007 to June 2009 (2 years 6 months) Junior Designer @ Designer, draftsman and "mock-up problem solver" for high-end water feature design firm for medium to grand scale, mixed-use applications all over the world.
Clients included: Shigeru Ban Architects, Norman Foster + Partners, Jerde Partners, Sasaki Associates, West 8, to name a few.
Drafting & presentation production, file mgmt. & sub-contractor correspondence
Sketching, model-making (1:1 with water included!), mechanical fittings & materials samples research
http://www.fluidity-design.com/ From March 2008 to September 2008 (7 months) Architectural Consultant @ www.farmlab.org
Produced schematic design and design development of sustainable, interactive art installations, graphic design, book production and community building strategies for think tank, art production studio, performance and educational venue.
Specific projects included activity at Hayward Gallery, Keeler Water Board and Community Services Committee From June 2007 to January 2008 (8 months)
B.Arch, Architecture @ Southern California Institute of Architecture From 2002 to 2007 Elizabeth Marley is skilled in: Sustainability, Sketching, Sustainable Design, Rendering, Design Research, Architectural Design, Green Building, Architecture, Product Design, Graphic Design, Space planning, Entrepreneurship, Proposal Writing, Strategy, Model Making
Websites:
http://www.elizabethmarley.com,
http://fluxfoundation.org/community-education/tweethaus/,
http://www.stackingseeds.com