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<span id="docs-internal-guid-0c6fc8fa-ce35-b65f-bdd4-2ed3edecbc3f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(pronoun)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">does now: Architectural Designer for HCM</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-0c6fc8fa-ce35-b65f-bdd4-2ed3edecbc3f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What that means: I design learning experiences and SPACES! I primarily focus on higher education environments but also interested in K-12 environments and urban spaces.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Serving as UIF Since:'''&nbsp;Fall 2013</span>
  
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''School:&nbsp;'''University of Maryland, College Park</span>
  
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''What she does now:'''&nbsp;Architectural Designer, Hord Coplan Macht (HCM Architects), Researcher (HCM/Salk Institute)</span>
  
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''What that means:'''&nbsp;…''<u>Architecture:</u>'''&nbsp;'''''I design learning environments, spaces and experiences (especially for Higher Education Institutions and public/private sector work environments)!&nbsp;'''''&nbsp;'''<u>Research:</u>'' I am part of a core research team considering how biophilic design might impact learning. Biophilic design ties together nature, human biology and design, highlighting aspects of nature that most impact human satisfaction in the built environment.&nbsp;</span>
  
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Contact her about:'''&nbsp;pop up classes, designing learning experiences, maker spaces, SPACE in general, language as a mechanism for inclusion, brainstorming, reaching marginalized groups, working with faculty & administrators, catalyzing faculty learning communities, her love of travel or just because!&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
  
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Email:&nbsp;'''valeriesherry3@gmail.com</span>
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Valerie (Sherry) Caruolo has been a University Innovation Fellow at the University of Maryland since November 2013, where she is pursuing a Masters degree in[[File:Sherry.jpg|thumb]] Architecture. Her thesis research involves designing informal networks for learning spaces and explores how spatial agency might promote discovery, learning, and play in the public realm. Might there be strategies in which space may enhance or support educational inquiry and interaction? How might we expand our concept of learning spaces within community constructs so that urban learning spaces might be thought of as a network of entry points to education and economic mobility for marginalized populations? As a fellow, Valerie works with university administrations, fellow students, as well as local, regional, and global partners using a system’s thinking approach to design learning experiences and spaces that empower stakeholders to engage in lateral thinking and implementation of their ideas.
 
  
As a fellow, Valerie is passionate about connecting people with diverse expertise in order to enhance communication and promote cross-fertilization between fields. At the University of Maryland, Valerie helped launch Social Design Lab, a student design community where student teams pursue their passions through social design projects with the support of interdisciplinary peers, and connected campus resources. Valerie also works as a Design Thinking Facilitator with UMD’s Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship helping to facilitate design thinking and lean Launchpad modules in current undergraduate courses. Valerie plays an active role in her school community connecting students, faculty, administration, and regional partners. In Spring 2013 she launched an initiative, Design Tent where participants with diverse expertise engage in opportunities to play under the same tent providing forums to exchange mutual knowledge. Since then she has continued to design curriculum that allows participants to actively venture outside their comfort zone. As a member of her school’s curriculum committee she seeks to ensure that seeking student voice and input is a common ingredient when decisions regarding changes to their educational environment are made.
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Phone:&nbsp;'''(410) 790-7356</span>
  
As an undergraduate at Brown University, Valerie pursued personalized learning through a liberal arts driven inquiry. During her undergraduate academic career she constructed her architectural studies major around complimentary courses in art, engineering, urban economics, psychology, environmental science, social entrepreneurship and management science. Valerie was a four year Division I collegiate athlete on the Brown University Women’s Lacrosse Team where she learned the importance of a team centered attitude, drive and leadership. As a member of the Women’s Leadership Council and Women’s Launch Pad mentorship program she participated in engaging student and mentor interests. Throughout her academic career, Valerie has also studied at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Barcelona and Yestermorrow Design/Build School. In years leading to graduate school Valerie gained professional experience as a designer, architectural intern, construction manager, and building scientist. She is a CPHC (Certified Passive House Consultant), LEED AP and International Living Futures Institute member.
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Valerie is a former University Innovation Fellow who graduated from University of Maryland, College Park for graduate school in 2015 and joined Hord &nbsp;Coplan Macht Architects in their education design studio. Valerie now designs learning environments and experiences, especially relating to higher education, including creating ways for students and university stakeholders to connect & converge in spaces on campus.&nbsp; At the University of Maryland, Valerie joined the University Innovation Fellows program in the Fall of 2013 to explore ways to reach across disciplines and engage fellow university community members in cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset.&nbsp; Her work at UMCP began with pop-up classes and pop-up student gatherings to promote project based learning, passion projects, and the coming together of traditionally silo’d discipines that had been marginalized from the innovation and entrepreneurial learning opportunities sponsored at the school at that time.&nbsp; Her main goal was to spark creative thought and action by bringing people together to solve wicked problems.&nbsp; This goal soon led to founding the Maryland Design Impact Lab (mDIL) – a cross disciplinary student-focused lab where ideas could be tested and teams formed to pursue applied social impact projects through the use of a variety of techniques including Lean Start up and design thinking.&nbsp; Meanwhile the growing Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UMCP began in the fall of 2013.&nbsp; Through Valerie’s UIF training and landscape canvas analysis of the I&E landscape at UMCP, she came across the amazing AIE and partnered to become part of the growing team of Design Thinking Facilitators whose mission was to engage all 35,000 undergraduates in innovation and entrepreneurship through curriculum.&nbsp; Her work at UMCP involved bridging students and faculty and helping university stakeholders realize how their respective disciplines could contribute to and navigate within the innovation and entrepreneurship resources on campus in order to demonstrate the power of their ideas turned to action - to catalyze change in the world.&nbsp; Valerie’s work now involves ethnographic research, stakeholder engagement, designing, prototyping and helping institutions design their plan for future spaces on campus. Valerie works from planning and visioning phases through to construction administration to bring spaces from concept to reality.&nbsp; Valerie is currently also helping to facilitate research as part of a core team working with a broader team of architects, students, school administrators, neuroscientists, behaviorial scientists, and industry partners to explore the emotional, physiological, and psychological benefits of biophilic design and how it might improve human health and well-being.&nbsp; We are specifically considering how biophilic design might reduce stress and enhance creativity in the context of learning environments.&nbsp; Valerie holds a B.A. in Architectural Studies from Brown University as well as a Masters in Architecture from University of Maryland, College Park.&nbsp;
 
 
She loves learning new things, coffee and in her spare time enjoys outdoor sports, and traveling.
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 23:28, 27 May 2020




Serving as UIF Since: Fall 2013

School: University of Maryland, College Park

What she does now: Architectural Designer, Hord Coplan Macht (HCM Architects), Researcher (HCM/Salk Institute)

What that means: …Architecture: I design learning environments, spaces and experiences (especially for Higher Education Institutions and public/private sector work environments)!  Research: I am part of a core research team considering how biophilic design might impact learning. Biophilic design ties together nature, human biology and design, highlighting aspects of nature that most impact human satisfaction in the built environment. 

Contact her about: pop up classes, designing learning experiences, maker spaces, SPACE in general, language as a mechanism for inclusion, brainstorming, reaching marginalized groups, working with faculty & administrators, catalyzing faculty learning communities, her love of travel or just because!      

Email: valeriesherry3@gmail.com

Phone: (410) 790-7356

Valerie is a former University Innovation Fellow who graduated from University of Maryland, College Park for graduate school in 2015 and joined Hord  Coplan Macht Architects in their education design studio. Valerie now designs learning environments and experiences, especially relating to higher education, including creating ways for students and university stakeholders to connect & converge in spaces on campus.  At the University of Maryland, Valerie joined the University Innovation Fellows program in the Fall of 2013 to explore ways to reach across disciplines and engage fellow university community members in cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset.  Her work at UMCP began with pop-up classes and pop-up student gatherings to promote project based learning, passion projects, and the coming together of traditionally silo’d discipines that had been marginalized from the innovation and entrepreneurial learning opportunities sponsored at the school at that time.  Her main goal was to spark creative thought and action by bringing people together to solve wicked problems.  This goal soon led to founding the Maryland Design Impact Lab (mDIL) – a cross disciplinary student-focused lab where ideas could be tested and teams formed to pursue applied social impact projects through the use of a variety of techniques including Lean Start up and design thinking.  Meanwhile the growing Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UMCP began in the fall of 2013.  Through Valerie’s UIF training and landscape canvas analysis of the I&E landscape at UMCP, she came across the amazing AIE and partnered to become part of the growing team of Design Thinking Facilitators whose mission was to engage all 35,000 undergraduates in innovation and entrepreneurship through curriculum.  Her work at UMCP involved bridging students and faculty and helping university stakeholders realize how their respective disciplines could contribute to and navigate within the innovation and entrepreneurship resources on campus in order to demonstrate the power of their ideas turned to action - to catalyze change in the world.  Valerie’s work now involves ethnographic research, stakeholder engagement, designing, prototyping and helping institutions design their plan for future spaces on campus. Valerie works from planning and visioning phases through to construction administration to bring spaces from concept to reality.  Valerie is currently also helping to facilitate research as part of a core team working with a broader team of architects, students, school administrators, neuroscientists, behaviorial scientists, and industry partners to explore the emotional, physiological, and psychological benefits of biophilic design and how it might improve human health and well-being.  We are specifically considering how biophilic design might reduce stress and enhance creativity in the context of learning environments.  Valerie holds a B.A. in Architectural Studies from Brown University as well as a Masters in Architecture from University of Maryland, College Park. 

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