Georgia Dillane is the Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at the Barnard Design Center. She graduated from Barnard College with a BA in Architecture in the Spring of 2025. Her research considers the lifetime of objects from the scale of a building to that of a sound wave. She likes to think about how media and material are engaged in dialogue about permanence and ephemerality, and the role of humans in shaping scales of time through their interactions with the built environment.
What this means for her research at the Design Center is preoccupation with the lifetime of materials used in the space. Georgia will attempt to extend the life of the waste produced in various Design Center making processes to develop alternative material futures for otherwise discarded objects.
She will produce for the scale of architecture, informed by the literature, film, and oral histories that have recorded and preserved methods of reconstruction, autonomous building, and adaptive re-use. She hopes to contribute to broader discourse around sustainable building practices, as well as efforts to democratize building and housing processes.
Ask Georgia about anything! But she’s most familiar with architectural model making, digital design (Adobe, Rhino, etc.), CNC milling, woodworking, 3D printing, laser cutting, weaving, basketry, and conceptual development for architecture and design.