Teri Kwant

As an accomplished human centered experience designer, researcher, and public artist, Teri Kwant has designed public engagement at the scale of cities to inform urban design and has created placemaking and public art projects at the intimate scale of human interaction. She has been a professional lecturer in the design of experience, environments, and communications and teaches Human Centered Design for Well-Being with a social and racial justice lens in both graphic design and architectural studios. A published author on the topic of Trauma Informed Placemaking and Design for Resiliency, she has presented at the AIA conference leading a interactive sessions on how design can be a factor and a force for change in the arenas of mental health and well-being, and for the ASLA an educational workshop on transforming placemaking into place-healing. in both the workplace, and in public space. Kwant describes herself as a designer, artist, educator/advocate, and mom, not necessarily in that order.