Toban Shadlyn



FIELD STATES

A strategic design studio, stewarding place-based transformation and civic value.
Project
2022–2024




POLYCENE DESIGN

An exploration on design standards for addressing the polycrisis from a planetary perspective.
Project 
2023



OPIOIDS, CARE, ADDICTION

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
2019–2023




MASTER OF STRATEGIC DESIGN 

A one-year masters program at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona Spain.
Academia 
2022–



MOCK OVERDOSE PREVENTION SITES

A series of exhibitions across Rhode Island and Massachusetts immersing people in a 1:1 scale overdose prevention site (safe injection).
Project 
2021–2022



INCOMPLETE CITY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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

Academia
2022




ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART

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


Academia
2022-2024




MAINSTAY RI

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

Project
2019–2022




DESIGN BEYOND CRISIS

Interdisciplinary studio course at Rhode Island School of Design.

Academia
2022




EQUITABLE FUTURES STUDIO: OPIOIDS & OVERDOSE

A mechanism for collaboration and change within Rhode Island. 

Project
2021



CARRY FORWARD

Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity annual symposium entitled Carry Forward.
Symposium
2021



DESIGN RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES

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

Lecture/Workshop
2018–




GENERATION C

Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity annual symposium entitled Generation C.
Symposium
2020




RHODE ISLAND OFFICE OF INNOVATION

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.
Project
2018



STRATEGIC DESIGN PROGRAM

Professional courses on systems and strategic design taught by RISD’s Center for Complexity.
Academia
2018–2021





GASSED OUT

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’.

MDES Thesis
2018



INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Interior design renovation projects (residential and commercial).
Project
2014–2017







Toban Shadlyn