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Hi, I'm Emma!I'm a designer, educator, researcher, and storyteller interested in the ways people experience place.
My work began with a simple question: What if architectural drawings could communicate more than information? What if they could communicate atmosphere, memory, emotion, and story?
That question led me to explore narrative approaches to architectural representation through graduate research, teaching, writing, and creative practice. Today, In Search Of serves as a home for those explorations. A place to collect observations, share projects, ask questions, and continue learning.
The name reflects my belief that the most meaningful discoveries rarely arrive fully formed. They emerge through curiosity, attention, and a willingness to keep searching.
I'm currently in search of better ways to tell stories about place.
How can stories help us understand the world around us?
The most meaningful parts of a place are often the hardest to represent.
Architectural drawings can communicate dimensions, materials, and technical information, but they often struggle to capture atmosphere, memory, emotion, and lived experience. Yet these are the qualities that shape how we understand and remember the spaces around us.In Search Of began as a personal and academic pursuit to better understand the relationship between people and place. What started as a graduate research project has grown into an ongoing practice of observation, drawing, writing, and discovery.
The name reflects a belief that design is not simply about producing answers. It is about asking better questions.
I am interested in what happens when we look closer, notice more carefully, and remain curious about the stories embedded in the built environment. Every project is part of an ongoing search for meaning, atmosphere, connection, and new ways of seeing.