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ABOUT THE DESIGNER

BSc.Arch/M.Arch




03/25J. Collin Garnett is an architectural designer + educator , interested in operating across practice and academia with a critical lense focused on design agency.

    Currently:

    + Designer @ PLY+
    + Lecturer I @ Univ. of Michigan
    + George G. Booth Travel Fellow


CV

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Instagram Multi-scalar in scope, Collin’s work finds its domain within material culture, adaptive reuse projects, and systems-based thinking.  With a particular interest in digital tool-building, information dissemination, territorial studies and public interest design, Collin leverages active research as the basis of his design practice. Central to this effort is the substantiation of the modern built environment as both [product of societal values] and [co-conspirator with power structures].

Collin is currently serving as a Lecturer at University of Michigan [U-M] Taubman College, where he teaches Undergraduate Core Studios, design foundations courses, and interdisciplinary classes on creative process. He also works as a project designer at PLY+, an architecture firm focused on community-driven projects in the Detroit-metro area. 

Previously, Collin served as Assistant Director and Studio Instructor for U-M’s summer pre-college architecture program [ArcStart], as well as a student instructor for courses in Professional Practice, Sustainable Systems, and Architectural Theory. He has experience as an editor for Dimensions, journal of architecture, and as a co-principal investigator and installation designer for Robotic Exhalation. His work has been featured in multiple showcase exhibitions, and published both in disciplinary journals and independent volumes.