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using engineering, data and design to craft future into form.
Featured Projects
Free, Fully-Remote World-Class Carbon Dioxide Removal Education Program. Empowering global leaders by providing industry-leading resources and setting the standard and foundations for a collaborative, inclusive, intelligent, resilient, and just climate-economy.
Program Infrastructure Developer
Remote | Co-Founder | 2021
Client: Air Miners
World’s First Non-Profit Solar Panel Manufacturing facility & replicable factory blueprint serving local, low-income communities. Researched and designed for 501(c)(3) resource & 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 & design ideation of multiple digital tools for somatically-driven support of psychological, physcial and emotional wellbeing, serving children in U.S. Military families living abroad, on-base. Focused on designing for children with autism and mild to severe trauma.
Therapeutics Digital Product Designer
Naples, IT | Consultant | 2021
Client: Joy Center DIRSI Therapy Clinic
Academic Background & Studies
FORMAL EDUCATION
Harvey Mudd College 2019 | Claremont CA
B.S. Engineering & Management
Engineering Focus Industrial & Systems Engineering
Humanities Focus Science Technology and Society
graduated with distinction
Universidad Carlos III Madrid 2018 | Madrid, Spain
Political Journalism. Semester Abroad, honors.
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy 2015 | Goleta CA. MacArthur Genius Grant STEAM Education, honors.
AWARDS & HONORS
Political Journalism Award 2018
UC3M, Madrid, Spain
Process Management Innovation Award 2017
Inland Empire, CA
Fellowship in Engineering Management 2017
Henry E. and Gale Riggs Fellow, Claremont, CA
Engineering Design Award 2016
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
5 Best in Class | 2 Editor’s Choice 2015
San Mateo Maker Faire
DESIGN EDUCATION & LEARNING
Ecological Landscape Design 2023
Digital Twins for Agile Manufacturing 2020
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Circular Design / Cradle-To-Cradle 2020
Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) in Manufacturing, Automation in Industry 2019
Circular Economy Supply Chains 2018
Design for Remanufacturing 2017
EE: PCB, Hardware, and ARM Firmware Design 2017
Advanced Systems Engineering Design 2017
Industrial Engineering Design 2017
Product Design 2011
Human Centered Design 2011
Digital Design 2007
OTHER
Yoga Instructor RYT 200HR | Restorative | Yin | Nidra | Pre-Natal | Accessible Yoga | Pranayama
Fine Art
Digital Art
Carbon Dioxide Removal
Gift-Economy 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
Postcard designed in Procreate
Personal Creative Project
& Travel Photos
Select Writings on Science, Technology & Society
The Art of Creating Science, Technology, and Society
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Beginning to Think of Science as a Practice.
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Science and the Senses (and Socks!)
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Dogma in Science, and exploring the structure of scientific revolutions.
Internet and Society : Socio-Cultural Interactions
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How access to digital technologies and the internet cause gaps in social representation.
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What constitutes consent in a digital age? And how does porn play into this conversation?
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Short dystopian story playing with the role of the Industrial Internet of Things’ (IIoT) in the modern built environment.
Creative Technologies and Design
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Looking at digital mixed-media in art to create immersive experiences (digital scapes) that transcend experiences and concepts of space and time; specifically- to help narrate stories of environmental and climate changes.
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Examining the spiritual nature of light as an art-medium, as viewed through the works of minimalist light-sculptor, Dan Flavin.
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Short overview of the philosophical concept of Qualia, and applying it to modern digital technologies, especially with regards to designing immersive digital experiences. More comprehensive slide-deck with collected examples available upon request.
Continuously in awe and inspired by the power of the human spirit to resiliently evolve and the creative ways it moves to change.
About
Giulia
Engineer
Artist
Yogi
Adventurer
Designer
Dancer
Weaver of inter-sectionalities & possibilities.