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Board of Directors
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Mickey Ackerman has been the head of the industrial design department at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence since 1991. He graduated from the school in 1979 with a master's degree in industrial design and began teaching there full-time in 1984; he has also taught at the Swire School of Design in Hong Kong and at the Glasgow School of Art. Ackerman has created products for such companies as Dansk, Salton, Robot Coupe and Telescope Folded Furniture, and has also designed limited-production lighting and furnishings. Ackerman currently heads his own consulting business and directs product development for Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT. |
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Kyle Bergman· M.Arch. VA Polytechnic Inst.· Kyle is an architect relentlessly eager to be out of the office. He has designed and built houses with his own firm, Bergman Design Team, and collaborated on diverse projects, both in the States and abroad. He created and moderated an architectural lecture series about the process of design/build for the Smithsonian Institute, and has contributed to the design and execution of architecture exhibits at the Russian National Architecture Museum in Moscow and the New Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, CA. Frustrated with the lack of resource material for quality new products, Kyle founded a publishing company that created Alt Spec - a visual resource for architects and designers. |
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Bill Bialosky · MArch, Yale · Since 1988, Bill has been splitting his time between his licensed practice in New York and a family office in Cleveland, OH. He has applied his extensive experience and knowledge of building technologies to solo projects as well as collaborations with other builder, artists and artisans. Bill enjoys working at all scales—from corporate campuses for thousands of employees to temporal seaside structures. Since 1990, he has helped others find the fun and rewards in exploring the design/build philosophy while teaching at Yestermorrow. |
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Allan “Buzz” Ferver was trained in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design in the 1970’s. He switched careers to work as an independent building designer and contractor in 1980. Parallel careers as a product design engineer for an automotive tool and equipment manufacturer, and the marketing and sales agent for a huge processor of compost made his life even more interesting. The 21st century finds him back as a Design/Builder, focusing primarily on new homes and major renovations to existing homes as a partner in Overbrook Design. He still spends some time consulting to the compost industry. He also dabbles in Sustainable Agriculture. A Stormwater head, for fun he follows the implications of the Clean Water Act and the ever evolving NPDES Phase II rules. He is currently living in and building a solar home in Worcester, Vermont with his beautiful wife Sandra. He has been teaching since 1970. |
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Stephen Kellert is the Tweedy Ordway Professor of Social Ecology at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of six books, including Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection, The Value of Life, and The Biophilia Hypothesis, edited with E. O. Wilson. Kellert also prepared a new high school curriculum of environmental ethics for The Goldman Environmental Prize (Environmental Ethics: Examining Your Connection to the Environment and Your Community”, endorsed by 24 leading environmental and educational organizations). |
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Curtis Ingham Koren is the Executive Director of Vermont Intercultural Semesters (VIS), an accredited high school and gap year program in Ladakh, a former Buddhist Kingdom in the Indian Himalaya. She has long been associated with The Sharon Academy (TSA) in Sharon, VT, as a teacher and parent, and is currently on the TSA Board of Trustees. Koren has worked as an editor and writer at Ms. Magazine, as a Middle-East correspondent based in Cyprus, and as a journalist at the United Nations. She has spearheaded community and educational projects through the Brookfield Community Partnership (BCP), which she helped found in Brookfield, VT. She is also is an Emeritus Board member of Circus Smirkus, Vermont’s international youth circus based headquartered in Greensboro. She is a devoted cross-country skier, and has completed five NYC marathons. She lives with her husband Ed, an artist and cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, and son Ben (now at college) in Brookfield, where she is a Justice of the Peace.
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Robin Morris has over 25 years of business management experience. In 1989 he moved from London, England to become CEO of an international software company in New York. In 1996 he moved to Waitsfield VT, where he continues to run a business consulting practice. Robin is a partner in a local business incubator and sits on the Boards of a number of Vermont companies. In 1977 he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Architecture from Portsmouth School of Architecture. |
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John “Sucosh” Norton · BA, Williams · In 1970 Sucosh moved to Vermont to start a furniture making business. He left furniture building to develop cast iron wood stoves for Vermont Castings, then high-reliability wind turbines with Northern Power Systems. John designed innovative wastewater treatment systems with his own company, Four Elements Corporation and after a period in New Bedford, MA managing a commercial fishing venture, he returned to VT and to Controlled Energy Corporation/BBT North America, where he held various senior management positions. He is currently Chief Operating Officer of NRG Systems in Hinesburg, VT. |
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Kinny Perot · UPenn, Connecticut College, Yale U· is president of Friends of the Mad River and has been since its founding in January 1991. Kinny represented the towns of Granville, Fayston, Warren and Waitsfield in the State Legislature from 2000 to 2004. She served her community as a Warren Select Board member and Warren representative to the Mad River Valley Planning District as well as having been active on the Warren School Board, Warren PTA, the Warren Library Commission and The Vermont Festival of the Arts board. She has two grown sons. She and her husband, Richard Czaplinskski, are working "to do less with less", fostering energy conservation and sustainability and experimenting with permaculture in Warren village. |
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Hannah Purdy · Hannah believes design profoundly affects quality of life. Her professional focus is spatial and material reuse, and in practice she works to maximize change while minimizing expenditure. A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and co-editor of Perspecta 34: Temporary Architecture, Hannah is a principal at Walsh & Purdy Architects in New York City. www.walshpurdy.com. |
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Macrae Rood is a partner in the firm of Bast & Rood Architects. The firm’s practice includes a wide range of commercial, institutional, and residential work. Mac’s background includes ownership of a construction company, manufacturer of composting toilets, and development of four hydroelectric sites in Vermont. He has taught at Yestermorrow since 1980. |
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Jeff Schoellkopf · MArch MIT · Jeff is a principal of Jeff Schoellkopf Design and The Design Group of Warren, VT. He generalizes in humanistic and ecological design, planning, and construction, with experience in a broad range of projects since 1978. Particular interests include sustainability, energy conservation, holistic land and town planning, renewable systems, and the support of progressive community, educational, and environmental organizations. Jeff has taught design and architecture at Yestermorrow since 1986, and at Norwich University. |
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Robert Shaffer · West Chester U; JD, Brooklyn Law School; LLM in taxation, Villanova U · Bob lives in Waitsfield, VT and practices law with Lyons Dougherty Shaffer & Ferver located in Chadds Ford, PA. |
Yestermorrow Design/Build School Course Calendar
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