Jonee Kulman Brigham

Jonee Kulman Brigham, AIA, LEED AP O+M, is a senior research fellow with the Minnesota Design Center at the College of Design and an Institute on the Environment Fellow. As an architect, artist, educator, and previously an energy consultant, Jonee has focused her work on sustainable design and environmental education. Jonee brings a design thinking and arts approach to affecting systemic change with a particular interest in the paradigms that drive systems. In her interdisciplinary graduate work at the University of Minnesota, she developed the Earth Systems Journey curriculum model for art-led, experiential, environmental education which uses embodied, interactive, and social ways of knowing. Jonee co-leads Design for Community Regeneration, a participatory, game-like, geodesign process that uses the power of GIS-informed decisions to help communities plan for their desired future.