Mark served as a Fulbright Specialist for six weeks during June and Juky of 2022. He consulted with the Infrastruttura di Ricerca Integral Design Environment—IR.IDE (Infrastructure for Research in Integral Design Environments) — in the Dipartmento di Culture del Progetto (Department of the Culture of the Project) at the Università Iuav di Venezia (Iuav University Venice).
Mark collaborated with Prof. Margherita Vanore and her staff in the Laboratorio de Progettazione PRIDE (Design Laboratory Pro Research in Integral Design Environment).
The invited project was called "Activating Integral Design Environments” and addressed their multi-disciplinary, multi-scalar design research using the integral model. More about the integral approach is covered in depth in the book, edited by Susanne Bennett, Integral Sustainable Design: transformative perspectives. Iuav is a premier Italian design university focusing on art and design at all scales. The Fulbright Specialist program is designed for mid and senior career faculty that can not necessarily spend a full 6 months or year abroad.
Mark offered three guest seminars in the Vanore workshop, of W.A.VE. (Workshop Architecture Venice), which this year has 1200 students total. The seminars were on the topics: 1) Integral distinctions framing quality campus design, 2) Microclimates in-between buildings, 3) Designing to include human experience. He am also actied as an invited critic for WAVE and for several IUAV Masters projects.
He consulted and collaborated with the IR.IDE –PRIDE lab on developing a database of research projects from several years and toward an exhibit of the work with an integral framing. One part of the project was to collaborate with Vanore and others at Iuav to initiate an international Integral Design Network of academics, researchers and practitioners. Mark looks forward to future collaborations and exchanges with Iuav.