Toban Shadlyn


Academia
2024-2025

A studio project exploring water scarcity in agricultural practices in the conext of Catalonia.



Academia
2023-2024

A studio project exploring the drought challenges facing Barcelona and the broader region.



Academia
2022–

A one-year masters program at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona Spain.


Project
2023-2025

An exploration on design standards for addressing the polycrisis from a planetary perspective.


Academia
 2022–

A summer course offered at IED Barcelona, training practitioners



Project
2022-2024

A strategic design studio, stewarding place-based transformation and civic value.



Project
2019-2023

A multi-year systems change effort in collaboration with various stakeholders including academic institutions, private and public sector, and non profit organizations. Collectively, we are designing healing and restorative systems of care.


Project
 2021–2022

A series of exhibitions across Rhode Island and Massachusetts immersing people in a 1:1 scale overdose prevention site (safe injection).


Academia
2022
Spring semester course in the Urban Technology program at the University of Michigan.


Academia
2022-2024

Lecturer and Tutor in the Master of Service Design and Design within Society elective at the Royal College of Art London.


Project
2019-2022

mainstay RI is a small thinktank and advocacy group working to redesign the environments of care for people impacted by the overdose crisis.


Academia
2022

Interdisciplinary studio course at Rhode Island School of Design.



A mechanism for collaboration and change within Rhode Island.


Interview
2022

A podcast interview about faciltiation with students from Kaospilot School.


Symposium
2021

Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity annual symposium entitled Carry Forward.



An ongoing lecture and workshop series on design research and methodologies.



Symposium
2020

Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity annual symposium entitled Generation C.



The Rhode Island Office of Innovation, an initiative launched by Governor Gina Raimondo in January 2016, to support and positively impact public systems in the state.


Academia
2018-2021

Professional courses on systems and strategic design taught by RISD’s Center for Complexity.


Thesis
2018

What to do when the world runs out of gas? GASSED OUT is a proposal that seeks to anticipate the transition from fossil fuels to renewables by transforming gas stations into community ‘energy hotspots’.


Project
2014–2017

Interior design renovation projects (residential and commercial).



Toban Shadlyn