Compassionate Sustainability Course Design Lead
Alexandra Albinus began her collaboration with James Ehrlich (Director of Compassionate Sustainability at CCARE) in 2021 to establish a series of workshop programs and courses on Design Empathy, specific to themes on regeneration, climate resiliency, and adaptability. Alex creatively shapes custom programs for K12 youth, support for undergraduates and master’s students, executive education for professional growth, and helping to define the Design Empathy Instructor certification program.
Alex is a trained architect originally from Germany who studied at the University of Applied Science Munich Architecture Department, and then continued her architectural and design studies in Spain at the University of the Bask Country in San Sebastian. Alex then returned to Germany to complete her architectural degree, graduating with a Dipl.-Ing Architecture, and continued in design thinking training to further her teaching skills.
Alex has worked with professional architectural and design firms to train internal teams on creative collaboration, applying her growing knowledge in climate resiliency and environmental design areas. She moved to Silicon Valley in support of her husband’s post-doc at the Stanford Center for Design Research, while continuing to build her professional design and teaching skills.