Meghan Saas is an educator, graphic designer, and book artist. Interdisciplinarity is centered in all of these endeavors, as Saas views creative collaboration as an opportunity to learn new things and think in new ways. Her portfolio includes both print and digital work, spanning a broad range of projects from publication design to icon system design to comprehensive marketing campaigns.
Dr. John Park's research interests include housing policies and programs, real estate economics, urban development, built environments, community resilience, and social equity. He has extensive experience with statistical and spatial methodologies, including the use of Stata and ArcGIS to assess a variety of housing and land-related challenges. John will teach real estate courses at the School of Architecture and conduct research in the areas of real estate development, housing programs, housing affordability, land value, urban resiliency, and built environments.
Liz Camuti, RLA, is a landscape architect and Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane School of Architecture. Her work focuses on resilience planning and design for climate adaptation, particularly in cities along the Gulf Coast. She previously worked at SCAPE Landscape Architecture in New Orleans where she both led and contributed to inter-disciplinary teams developing landscape strategies and innovative infrastructure for public projects at multiple scales.
Dr. Fallon Samuels Aidoo is a preservation planner interested in both the history and future of real estate that sustains cultures, economies, ecologies, and memories. Her research and teaching of design and development builds knowledge of real estate reinvestment, restoration, rehabilitation, and retrofit by governmental, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit organizations—and the lack thereof in places predominantly occupied by Black, Indigenous, and immigrant populations.
Dallas native Omar Ali is a designer, educator and the 2021-23 Tulane Architecture and Urbanism Fellow. He is also co-founder of table of co., a cloud-based design and research practice. Ali has practiced architecture and urban design at UrbanLab in Chicago, MOS Architects in New York City, and John McMorrough/studioAPT in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work has been written about in Metropolis Magazine, published in Architecture and Surrealism (Thames and Hudson), Fresh Meat Journal (University of Illinois – Chicago), and LUNCH Journal (University of Virginia).
Emmanuel Osorno is an architect, designer, educator and the founder of EOstudio. He is Tulane’s 2021-23 Architecture and Social Innovation Fellow at the School of Architecture. His most recent work aims to recalibrate the public’s view toward building preservation and social services, leveraging the power of images to infiltrate existing forms of media through which buildings circulate and gain value.
