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Daniel Hewett, Director

selected collaborations

Boston Scientific, Cessna, Chanel, ESPN, Florim, GGP, Goldman Sachs' 10K Small Businesses, Hayworth, Hyundai, Infosys, Infosys, Samsung, Steinway, International Fragrances and Flavors, Johnson & Johnson, Joint Special Operations University, Lego, Levis, LG, Mass Mutual, Microsoft, NASA, Natchmann, Nike, NPR, Patagonia,  Phillips, Providence Ballet Theater, Saint Gobain, The World Economic Forum, USAid

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selected clients

Aureus Asset Management, Battery Ventures, Baupost Group, Charles River Ventures, City Year, Dyer Brown, Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, Epsilon, Equity Office, Fidelity, For Eyes Optical, Liberty Mutual, Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, Osushi, Prism Ventures, Reebok, Ropes & Gray, Sheppard Kaplan , Sports Club LA, State Street Corporation, TESS, University of Massachusetts, US Army, and Windjammer Capital Investors

graduate seminars + studios

“Obstacles: Case Studies in Design Practice”

“Thesis Seminar: Making and Meaning”

“Representation in Landscape"

“Issues in Landscape Architectural History”  

“Brickloaf: Space, Structure, and Form in Reuse”

“Modus Operandi- Parking Lot Ecologies”

“Spatial Transitions:  Jump, Cut, Fade”

“Hab/Rehab: A Live/Work Halfway House”

“Details in Adaptive Environments”

“Landform Investigations”

“Inter|Commons: Urban Systems in Tijuana”

Unaverage

Radical Sites

Swift Series

Public Chiller

Busker Boxes

Spaces Between Places

Food Truck  - Liminal Infrastructures

Sketchy Networks- Mapping Workshop

Sugar House/Vet Clinic- New Hybrids

Chicken Ark- Local Global Insight

Sustainable SH/Ed

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urbanframe field studies
Daniel Hewett is a teacher, architect, and researcher. His work explores complex environments as sources of systemic insight and value creation.
 
Prior to forming cumuluslab, Daniel held faculty and senior academic staff positions at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to teaching theory and design studios, he led Academic Research + Partnerships and co-founded the Infosys-sponsored Center for Complexity, leading its Strategic Design Pedagogies program in the US, Europe, and India. 
 
He has held teaching and research appointments at Northeastern University’s Graduate School of Architecture and MIT. He is a speaker, critic, and advisor to design, innovation, and entrepreneurship programs in the US and abroad.

He is the founder and director of urbanframe, a non-profit organization mobilizing youth to design and test catalytic multi-site interventions in response to inequities in cities.  Urbanframe projects range in scale, and transcend disciplines, from architecture and landscape to industrial design and graphics.

Prior to joining Rhode Island School of Design, Daniel was the Director of Design at Dyer Brown and Associates in Boston. His built work ranges from interior and adaptive reuse projects to historic preservation and new residential and commercial commissions.

Daniel studied at the Graduate School of Architecture at Rice University. His thesis, “Architecture and the Productive Implications of Pause” examined the cultural roots and wisdom of "informal" site occupation in the colonias of former migrant families on the outskirts of Progresso, Texas. 

Current field research for the fairwitness project focuses on documenting the unique sensing and navigational gifts of individuals whose place-based wisdom enables them to thrive in the face of complex challenges.
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