Gabrielle Coleman
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Visiting Assistant Professor 1089 Seaton Hall |
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Gabrielle (Gabby) Coleman is an interdisciplinary designer, planner, and artist. In her current position as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University, she teaches undergraduate architectural design studios and graduate seminars on community engagement and participatory design at the intersection of architecture and urban planning. Her research engages with spatial issues at the building, neighborhood, and city scales, investigating topics of urban justice like placemaking, informal social networks, health inequities, and community resilience in the face of gentrification. Before teaching in the Little Apple, Gabby worked as a junior architect on learning environments for elementary and junior high schools at Hollis + Miller Architects in Kansas City, MO.
Gabby holds a Master of Architecture degree from the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design and a Minor in Leadership Studies, both at Kansas State University. She received a Master of Science in Urban Planning with concentrations in Built Environment and Community + Economic Development from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where her graduate research centered on the intersection of place attachment and cultural displacement. Storytelling and participatory research fuel her design approach.
Outside of architecture and urbanism, she’s a visual artist loyal to acrylic and watercolor mediums. A partial collection of her portrait series “more than a color” is on permanent display on the first and second floors of the Morris Family Multicultural Student Center at K-State.