Emma Jasinski

Adjunct Faculty in the Architecture Program

As an architectural designer, creative practitioner, and passionate cultivator of community, Emma has over 10 years of experience at civic impact architecture firms. In the 4 years at Landon Bone Baker Architects, Emma focused on affordable housing and public spaces. They executed various projects ranging from the historic renovation of SRO buildings to new construction multi-unit housing and the visioning of a domestic violence shelter. Fueled by their interest in the intersection of public health and architecture, Emma worked at Cannondesign in the healthcare market. Here they organized complex technical medical information into streamlined designs for a nationwide healthcare program of ten plus pre-fabricated medical office buildings. In 2022, Emma continued to explore gendered spaces through a trauma-informed approach, designing and developing eight mobile tiny homes for a domestic violence shelter in the California Bay Area.

Immersed in cross-disciplinary approaches, Emma led community design services spanning from nonprofit organizations like sanitation infrastructure projects in rural India at SHRI(Sanitation Health Rights in India) to Design Trust Chicago(DTC), an emerging multi-disciplinary civic impact design studio started in Chicago. Emma participated in and received awards from the DELL Social Innovation Challenge, Clinton Global Initiative, Buckminster Fuller Challenge, Global Citizen Award, and PLACELABS Ethical Redevelopment. She was a 2022 Fellow the Association of Community Design Fellow and currently sits on the advisory board of Design Trust Chicago.