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Brawer, Wendy E. (Wendy E. Brawer, USA)

Brawer, Wendy E. (Wendy E. Brawer, USA)

Founder and Director, Green Map

Focused on sustainable design for more than 20 years, Wendy E. Brawer’s original Green Map of New York’s green living resources sparked a capacity-building movement that has impacted more than 65 countries since 1995. A pioneer in internet-based collaboration, she has led the development of participatory tools, icons, mapping platform, multimedia and events, as seen at GreenMap.org. Wendy has also produced numerous interactive and print maps for New York City, as seen at GreenMapNYC.org.

 

A native of Detroit, USA, Wendy was an artist when she moved to Tokyo in 1985. There she began shifting toward product design. By 1990, she was working as an eco designer and co-teaching NYC’s first university-level course on Design for the Environment at the Cooper Union. She has been appointed Designer in Residence at Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a Woman of Earth (Terre de Femmes) and an Utne Visionary, as seen at EcoCultural.info. An active member of boards and community projects in Manhattan, Wendy's areas of expertise and social innovation include design for resiliency, co-development and community engagement. 

 

Photo by Peter Shapiro 2013

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