12/20/24
Welcome!
This website is brand-new!!
Which means it is currently a WIP.
Thank you for your patience as I develop live (this is so you can sneak a peek at what’s been done & what’s to come, if you’d like)
Project & CV details + writing & research findings in progress.
In the meantime: Please see my LinkedIn for readily available CV & Experience, or scroll to see samples of what I’ve done. Thanks for visiting!
Expertly Crafted Resilient Systems, New Worlds, and Inclusive Designs
Award Winning Designer, Director, Developer & Strategist. Trail-Blazing Guinea-Pig offering ethical solutions that work.
Welcome!
Giulia Maria (she/they/full-time human🙋🏻/part-time dragon🐉/magical dolphin🐬) is a multidisciplinary polymath, inventor, and autodidact. She collaboratively learns, works, and plays at the intersections of society, ecology, and economy. Ethics, compassion, and good-will-work that is mindful of all beings is at the heart of all they do.
Giulia is here to provide people the resources they need to establish solid foundations for flourishing, recovery, and success across all aspects of their lives. Firmly believing that good begets good, and constraint begets creativity: with these two truths- Giulia comes equipped with the safe understanding that anything that can be imagined, can be manifested.
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Curriculum Vitae (LinkedIn, for now)
Research, Visions
& Writing
I’ve spent the past 4(+) years deep-diving into studies of consciousness and the pain body (epigenetic & systemic trauma trapped in the body); how they respectively evolve, systemically propagate, and consequently impact human society and ecological flourishing & resilience.
My Guide Star:
“What are accessible, inclusive, practical solutions to help people recover from debilitating pain, fear, and trauma so we can return to stand as sovereign, curious leaders who flourish in creating for a better society?”
The motivation for this work arose from building alongside global leaders in industries serving those most vulnerable to degradation and pain, and who cannot always advocate for themselves (historically oppressed/under-resourced persons, animals, environment).
I set out to understand the root of pain, what effective & lasting ways there are to heal from it, and how we can help facilitate recovery & healing for others. In short: I wanted to become a leader who can effectively heal herself from pain and prejudice- and inspire others to have the courage to look within and do the same.
What I’ve Found: To be a world ‘leader’, ‘healer’, and ‘guide’ for others means to lead, heal, and guide myself through my human experience in the World. Self-sovereignty is a super power, and the right of very human (and plant and animal) to own, embody, and discover for themselves. My job as a co-human on Earth is to ensure this right for all beings.
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“Human who Plays”. Play mindset for rapid, resilient social, ecological, and economic regeneration. Psychological & emotional motivations for this, and how this is what underpins the foundation of human and ecological resilient growth.
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How this impacted time in human history has the power to be one of great resilience and strength.
Looking at systemic patterns propagating along intra > inter > extra > & trans personal network lines. Specifically, looking back at the legacy of religiously-driven war, colonization, slavery, & the industrial revolution.
Comparing this to how we can learn from these mistakes to create a strong, adaptable grassroots-driven socio-ecological-economic network.
The implications of not adopting a collaborative model, and how the current patterns will effect mental health and human, civic, economic, and ecological flourishing moving forward if human evolution is not addressed holistically.
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2018 Paper on leveraging the power of emerging digital technologies to create Digital Scapes for influencing collective well-being. (Currently available on LinkedIn under the ‘homoludens’ work experience)
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Motivational framework for cross-generational collaboration. Inspired by studying how trees in a forest manage and share resources to ensure the vitality and economic well-being of the whole bio-region. Why including and driving support and resources to youth as leaders is important for overall flourishing of the whole.
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Why this will become increasingly important, and why every futures-company should considering hiring for one or developing a similar role.
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What we’re building as conscientious good-will leaders and visionaries! Again, trees and forests and collective ecosystem balance.
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How to engage with emerging digital technologies to for holistic good, explained from the reverse-engineered perspective of how these technologies are created in the first-place.
I intersect my decades of experience working in industrial product design & manufacturing, process & systems engineering, art, dance, climate, wellness, data analytics, behavioral science, and global justice work to inform my understandings. I love to write and learn about value exchanges at all levels of life, including:
material & immaterial (matter >< thoughts/emotions)
organic & inorganic (nature >< man-made).
artistic & scientific (right >< left brain)
sensations & ideas (felt >< perceived)
I create at the cross-road, resourcefully combining their strengths.
I also explore the role that play, collaboration, and emerging technologies have in effective storytelling, and how they can be effectively used to convey oftentimes sensitive, complex ideas and information.
Past Multi-Media Project
What You’ll Find:
Science, Tech & Society thought-experiments
Studies of Human Absurdity
Poems, Letters & Musings
Pictures (including photos of a ghost-town Venice, Italia during Covid-19 lockdown)
Art & Silly Happenstances
Featured Projects
Free, Online, best-of-class Climate Education Community. Empowering global leaders by setting world-class social, educational, and ecological foundations for an inclusive, resilient climate-economy.
Program Director, Strategist and Manager
Remote | Co-Founder | 2021 - 2023
Client: Air Miners
World’s First Non-Profit Solar Panel Manufacturing facility & Program Blueprint serving local, low-income communities. Researched and designed for 501(c)(3) resources management constraints.
Program Manager and Process Engineer
Pomona, CA | Consultant | 2018 - 2019
Client: CHERP Solar Works
Somatically Driven Digital Tools for Pediatric Therapy
Field Research & development of multiple designs for somatically-driven digital UX/UI tools to support psychological, physcial and emotional wellbeing of children in U.S. Military families living on-base.
MEL Researcher and Digital Product Designer
Naples, IT | Consultant | 2021
Client: Joy Center DIRSI Therapy Clinic
Additional Projects
2016 - now
RESILIENT SYSTEMS & NETWORKS
Self-Directed Research. Writing In Progress.
2019 - 2023
CLIMATE WORK
Hyper-local Technical Assistance for Regenerative Agriculture, Resilient Network Design Toolkit
Virtual Carbon-Removal Event Organizer: ‘Motivation & Foundations for a Climate-Economy’
Design Workshop Organizer: Circular Economy, Local Supply-Chain Empowerment for Covid-19; Global Design Initiative (March 2020, Founder)
2015 - 2019
DATA & TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
Factory redesign for infrared sensors build.
Custom Robotic Tool Circuit Design for Reliability Testing
Custom Data-Analytics Tool for Quality Control & Statistical Analysis Monitoring
Soccer Field Paint-Lining Tool for Cranky, Morning-Drowsy Parents
ENGINEERING Design
12-HR Design Builds
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Robot: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to Measure Ocean-Floor Bathymetry (Mapping the Ocean floor with Sonar & FFT data)
Aerospace Satellite Component : Cycloidal Gear Mechanical Space-grade Actuator
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Static Programemd Light Art Sculpture
Wearables | Interactive Finger-flex sensor gloves
Rubin’s Tube: Sound Visualizer made with Fire
Audio-Haptic Gaming Sensor for Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Gamers
Custom Analytics Tool: Supply Chain Cost-Assessment (Custom algorithm development, Data-Analysis, intuitive UX/UI )
Custom 3D Printers for K-12 Education
Kinematic Programmed Light Art Sculpture
AWARDS & HONORS
Political Journalism Honors: Internet Justice & Equity 2018
UC3M, Madrid, Spain
Process Management Innovation Award 2017
Inland Empire, CA
Engineering Design Award 2016
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
4 Best in Class | 2 Editor’s Choice 2015
San Mateo Maker Faire
CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
2011 - 2015
EDUCATION
Harvey Mudd College 2019 | Claremont CA
B.S. Engineering. Emphases on Systems & Controls, Process Engineering, Design, and Management.
Minor Science Technology and Society
graduated with honors
Universidad Carlos III Madrid 2018 | Madrid, Spain
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy 2015 | Goleta CA. MacArthur Genius Grant STEAM Education
Interactive Process-Flow Narration Experience: The Making of High-End Italian Fashion Textiles & Garments
Design Forward, Don Norman UCSD School of Design (2016)
The Hive, Design Educators Workshop, Pomona, CA (2017)
Society of Women Engineers Conferences (2015-2019)
STEAM & MECHATRONICS Design
DESIGN EDUCATION
Human Centered Design 2011-2018
BioMimetic Design
Design for Remanufacturing
Engineering Design
Ecological Landscape Design | Santa Barbara City College (2023)
Circular Design + C2C | From Linear to Circular | Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2020)
OTHER
Yoga Instructor & Reiki Master Level Attunment
200HR | Restorative | Yin | Nidra | Pre-Natal | Accessible Yoga | Principle Based Partner Yoga | Pranayama
Trauma informed, following somatic teachings of Peter Levine. Studying Trauma-Aware Leadership with Danielle Vance.
Areas of Expertise
Leadership & Interpersonal Dynamics
Program Development & Project Managment
Engineering
Data & Resource Management
Product Design (digital & physical)
Painting & Studio Art
Ethical, Inclusive MEL Research
Mixed Methods Designer
Digital Art Design
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Climate Product Design
Alice Keck Park Blueprint, Postcard
Multi-Generational Co-Creating
Client • Personal Project
Printed and donated cards to Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens to support native plant restoration initiatives.
Digitized my Grandfather (Grant Castleberg)’s Blueprints of a locally beloved public park at the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, CA
Year • 2020/2022
Postcard Made using Procreate
Additional Digital Art
Select Studio Art
About
Giulia Maria
Giulia Maria Castleberg Resilience Systems & Networks Specialist Expert at understanding systemic patterns, systems, and networks found across various levels of the human experience.
Inner x Outer world Adventurer.
Intuitive + sharp at simplifying complexity.
Developer + Implementer wiz.
Hobbiest about hobbies.
Data x Art x Science nerd.
Weaver of intersectionalities & possibilities.
LOVER OF LIFE!
Continuously in awe and inspired by the power of the human spirit to shine bright, especially in the darkest of places.
Let’s Connect!
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My mission is to simplify complex problems and situations into resilient, resource-efficient, productive systems and designs; guaranteeing enduring, adaptive, long-term success for clients in this rapidly evolving time on Earth.
I’m here to provide people the resources they need to establish solid foundations for success in their projects and lives.
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I work with social, economic, and ecological good-will leaders actively ideating solutions to design-by-default for a better world.
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Project Manager. Thought-leader. Strategist. Program Developer. Director. Process Engineer. Product Designer. Data Manager and Analyst. Monitoring, Evaluating, Learning (MEL). Innovation Consultant. Speaker, Educator, and Writer. Artist.
Any of the above. (And more).
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Reach out!
Interested in connecting? Please reach out at the following.
email gm lastname at gmail dot com
linkedIn giulia-maria-castleberg
location Greater Seattle Area, WA, USA