Climate Change Student Action at SFSU!

This Spring, San Francisco State University (SFSU) is thrilled to launch the SFSU Sustainable Materials Learning Library (SMLL) created by SFSU’s School of Design students!

SFSU students and SFSU faculty Professors JD Beltran and Fernando Carvalho, along with the support of the Director of the School of Design Mari Hulick have founded and created the first West Coast college-based materials library focused exclusively on showcasing sustainable and/or recycled materials for designers and artists to research and utilize in their projects.

The Sustainable Materials Learning Library will be headquartered in the SFSU campus Humanities Building. It will be accessible to the SFSU community and the wider general public to educate patrons on the latest developments in sustainable materials that contribute to a circular economy and climate action, addressing the causes and impacts of climate change.

The SFSU School of Design team adhered to the creative use of sustainable materials in every step of this endeavor. The Sustainable Materials Learning Library infrastructure itself is constructed solely from sustainable materials; SFSU students, along with SFSU Staff Richard Ortiz and Justin Wong and Professor Beltran invented an ingenious mobile wall system to showcase the sustainable material samples tiles, utilizing sustainable plywood sheets supported with novel hempcrete bases. Sets of these mobile walls will display the learning library’s collection of samples of sustainable and/or recycled materials that SFSU students have sourced from manufacturers and industry resources all over the world.

The SFSU School of Design has been invited to showcase the new SFSU Sustainable Materials Learning Library for the 2023 International Biodesign Challenge Summit in New York. SFSU student teams hope to travel to New York this June to present their work at the New York Museum of Modern Art and The New School, Parsons School of Design 2023 Biodesign Summit Showcase, and currently is fundraising the resources to be able to make the journey.

Please help us send SFSU Students to NYC to showcase their ingenuity, creativity, and commitment to solutions for climate change to the world!

San Francisco State University

School of Design

1600 Holloway Ave

Fine Arts Building, Room 121-C

San Francisco, CA 94132

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SFSU Sustainable Materials Learning Library Student Founders

Claudia Acuna Melendez

Cecilia Cao

Jazlyn Castro

Danya Dajani

Christopher Felix Quintero

Cole Galvin

Jeremy Helstone

Farrah Lam

Andres Lucero

Danica-Yvanne Mariano

Gaspar Mendoza-Lopez

Jacksaline Perez

Cesar Pinto

Marilyn Ramirez

Michelle Sit

Maurice Slade

Brandon Tam

Rebecca Tang

Eric Velasquez

Kristina Zimina

SFSU School of Design Sustainable Materials Learning Library Faculty and Staff Founding Team Members

Director of Design Mari Hulick

Professor JD Beltran

Professor Fernando Carvalho

SFSU Staff Richard Ortiz

SFSU Staff Justin Wong

For inquiries, please write JD Beltran at San Francisco State University