Members

Verena Paepcke (Chair)

Paepcke has been teaching and developing courses at SCAD since 2005 and is a founding member of the Council for Sustainability and Eco-practices at SCAD. Paepcke has taught at The Ohio State University and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in Germany. She worked in research and development at Lear Corporation VisionWorks in Southfield, Michigan, developing concepts to incorporate new technologies into passenger cars. In Germany she developed concepts for improving lives of the elderly at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and designed interiors for the Fairchild Dornier 728 jet with Industrial Design Studio Hamburg.

John Bennett

Bennett has served as director of student media at SCAD since 2000 and originally joined the college in 1993. He holds a master of science degree in higher education student affairs from Florida State University, a master of arts degree in historic preservation from SCAD and is currently a doctoral student in public administration at Valdosta State University. He is chairman of the Citizens Advisroy Committee of the Chatham Urban Transportation Study and serves on the CUTS Policy Committee. Bennett is vice chairman of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign and is acting chairman of Pedestrian Advocates of the Coastal Empire.

Scott Boylston

A former art director in New York City, Boylston is the author and designer of “Creative Solutions for Unusual Projects,” which was named a book of the month by the Graphic Design Book Club and translated into Chinese. He also wrote and designed the poetry chapbook “Corrosion: Season of Anecdote,” an exploration of ecological decline around the world. His book about sustainable package design, “The Complete Package,” will be published by Laurence King LTD (London) in 2008. Boylston’s short stories have been published in numerous literary journals, and his posters have been featured in group shows around the country.

Robert Fee

Fee has helped develop the SCAD graduate programs in both industrial design and design management, a new offering that focuses on sound business fundamentals, the sociology of design within organizations and collaborative design practice. He began his career in Boeing’s computer graphics lab and participated in the first known computer rendition of the human figure. Several of his products, most notably the soft-grip screwdriver and contoured hand drill produced by Fiskars, were in production for more than two decades. After working with design consulting firms in Chicago and Wichita, Kansas, Fee moved to Texas Instruments, where he managed the corporate design center until he joined the faculty at SCAD.

Peter Fossick

Fossick is a professional designer who has designed services and products for an array of clients. He joined SCAD in 2007, and has been a full-time professor in product design at Glasgow School of Art and spent six years in Hong Kong developing and leading courses in design. He was a member of the senior management team at Middlesex University and was the course leader for the graduate program in product design, innovation and management. In 1995 he co-founded Factotum Design, a product, service and new media consultancy, and in 2006 he helped create Innovation Valley with a number of business services in North London.

Todd Luger

Luger currently works in the SCAD-eLearning department as the Coordinator of Instructional Design. His background is in biology and environmental sciences. For 18 years, Luger was involved in the field of natural healthcare. His specialty was herbal medicine and nutrition. He has been a longtime advocate of organic farming and consumption of local foods. Luger is the creator of a social networking site for people interested in environmental issues. It is called GreenSpace Savannah

Christine Miller

Miller earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Management from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Her dissertation research incorporates an ethnographic study of the role of culture in mediating the relationship between formalization and innovation within the product development division of a Tier One automotive supplier. Miller’s research interests include how sociality and culture influence the design of new products, processes and technologies. Her exploration of the human-computer interface in relation to technology-mediated communication within group, team and network situations has developed over years of experience working in and with organizations. Issues of sustainability in the design of products, processes, and business models is an underlying theme in her research. While teaching in the Business School at Wayne State University Miller focused on the international aspect of the business environment, developing and teaching courses that introduce MBAs to the economic, social, cultural, and political forces that impact regional and bi-lateral business operations. Her courses addressed the influence of technology on changing organizational structures, processes and practices. Currently a Professor of Design Management at the SCAD, Miller serves on the Governing Council of the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists (NAPA), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

LaRaine Papa Montgomery

LaRaine Papa Montgomery earned her M. Architecture Degree from the College of Design at North Carolina State University in 1989, along with a minor in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her graduate years, she studied with Professor Rob Krier at the Technische Universitat in Vienna, Austria, focusing on Urban Design and Development. She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at the Savannah College of Art and Design Architecture Department since 1995. She has been LEED accredited since 2005, and has served as a founding member of the Savannah Chapter of the USGBC, serving as Secretary for a two-year term, and now serving on the Advisory Board. She has offered public workshops in the summer at the Chatham County Library system, teaching children of all ages how to recycle, how to make paper, how to create pinwheels out of aluminum cans, and other events designed to educate on sustainable lifestyles. Since 2005, she has led her architecture design studios on community outreach programs in the Gulf Coast community of Pass Christian, Mississippi, where the students have both designed and built structures for families devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Prior to teaching, she worked in architecture firms both in the States and abroad. As a member of the international design team for Suter + Suter, an international architecture and planning firm, she traveled and lived in European cities while working on commercial projects. Her interests include interdisciplinary design opportunities; sustainable design projects of all scales; the challenges of the 21st century resulting from the end of oil; and community service to people in need.

Deborah Brooks

Daniel Levine

Jeann Lambim