Tools for a Warming Planet, Sismógrafo Gallery, Porto, Portugal (2025) (forthcoming)
Tools for a Warming Planet, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (2025)
Eco Materials Library, Pioneering Biomaterials Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2025)
Solar Mobility Hub, MacArthur BART Station, Oakland, CA (2025) forthcoming
Tools for a Warming Planet, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2022)
Tools for a Warming Planet, Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
Tools for a Warming Planet, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2022)
Solar Fountain, Exploratorium, permanent installation, San Francisco, CA (2018-present)
Electric Drive Solar Kiosk, City of Austin, permanent installation, Austin, TX (2017-present)
SolarPump Charging Station, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (2015-2017)
Campus Solar Charging Station, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (2014-2023)
SolarPhone Booth, ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA, 2012
AWARDS
Best Paper Award, Eco Materials Library, International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom (2024)
Hellman Fellowship, UC Davis (2021)
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek, The American Society of Landscape Architects Professional National Awards, Honor Award: Analysis and Planning (2019)
Alameda Creek Atlas, The Environmental Design Research Association, Great Places Award (2019)
Electric Drive Solar Kiosk, Austin Green Award, Austin, TX (2017)
TALKS
ATLAS Colloquium, The Atlas Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 2025 (forthcoming)
Protocols for Healthy Academic Makerspaces, International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2025
Fab Lab Resident talk, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 2025
Eco Materials Library, International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2024
Inclusive Energy Transitions, U21 Early Career Researcher, University of Queensland, Australia, 2024
Ferguson, B., Sanguinetti, A., Integrating Micromobility with Public Transit: A Case Study of the California Bay Area, World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research, Bogota, Colombia, 2024
Shared Micromobility Vehicle Design and Safety, Transit Research Symposium, UC Davis, 2024
Critical Design as Tools to Solve Big Problems panel, VentureWell, San Diego, CA, 2024
Bicycle and Pedestrian Access at Transit Stations, Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Sacramento, CA, 2024
Toward an SOS Design Manifesto: Guiding principles for ecology, care, and shelter, workshop, International Association of Societies of Design Research Congress, Milan, Italy, 2023
Collaborative Ecosystems for a Sustainable World, Curated by the Institut Ramon Llull, The NewArt Foundation, Hac Te, Ars Electronica Gardens exhibition and panel. Linz, Austria, 2022
Tools for a Warming Planet, International Symposium on Electronic Art Conference, Dean, S., Ferguson, B., Monsonís, M., panel, Canòdrom Center, Barcelona, Spain, 2022
Resilient by Engagement panel, Sustainable Urban Environments, Environmental Design Research Association Conference, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Creative partnerships for emergency solar charging stations, IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
Viloche, O., Ferguson, B. (2025) “Protocols for Healthy Academic Makerspaces”. Proceedings of International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Ferguson, B., Sanguinetti, A. (2024) “Extending public transit through micromobility facilities and services in the Bay Area”. National Center for Sustainable Transportation Policy Brief, http://dx.doi.org/10.7922/G23B5XG1
Ferguson, B., Sanguinetti, A. (2024) “Micromobility and Public Transit Environmental Design Integration”. UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies Policy Brief, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tr5c0dm
Ferguson, B., Smith, E., & Lazaro, E. (2024). Eco Materials Library. International Journal of Academic Makerspaces and Making (IJAMM) https://ijamm.pubpub.org/pub/sbhtqfv5/release/2
Napawan, C., Snyder, B., Ferguson, B. (2023) “Resilient by Youth Engagement”, Chapter 11, Beach, R., Smtih, B.,(ed), Youth Media Creation on the Climate Change Crisis: Hear Our Voices, Routledge, New York, NY. 234-250
Ferguson, B., Dean, S. (2023) “Tools for a Warming Planet”, Proceedings of IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.822
Ferguson, B., Sanguinetti, A. (2023) “Integrating Micromobility with Public Transit: A Case Study of the California Bay Area”. UC Davis: National Center for Sustainable Transportation. http://dx.doi.org/10.7922/G2J38QV7
Ferguson, B. (2022) “Designing with the Sun”, Handbook of Best Practices in Sustainable Development at University Level, Chapter 25, Springer, New York, NY DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-04764-0_25
Ferguson, B. (2022) Designing with Sunlight, Innovation Magazine, Sustainable Design Leadership, Industrial Designers Society of America, https://www.idsa.org/news-publications/innovation-magazine/summer-2022/
Ferguson, B., Sanguinetti, A. (2021). Facilitating Micromobility for First and Last Mile Connection with Public Transit Through Environmental Design: A Case Study of California Bay Area Rapid Transit Stations. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1577-1586, International Conference on Engineering Design, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2021 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.419
Pirmoradi, S., Ferguson, B., Vega, K., Goncu Berk, G. (2021) “CJ-2050: Body Cooling Wearable Technology”. Proceedings of International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 207-210. https://doi.org/10.1145/3460421.3478826
Ferguson, B., Maiorana, T., Vega, K., Cogdell, C. (2020) The UC Davis Product Design Lab: Sustainability, Inclusivity, and Creative Exploration. International Journal of Academic Makerspaces and Making https://ijamm.pubpub.org/pub/ez0swd6d
Okamoto, T., Brown-Stevens, A., Resilient by Design Teams. (2019) “Public Sediment, Resilient by Design: Bay Area Challenge”, 130-147, Resilient by Design: Bay Area Challenge
Okamoto, T., Brown-Stevens, A., Resilient by Design Teams, (2018) “Connecting People to Climate Risks, Participation + Action + Education Toolkit” Bay Area Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge