Azarm

Mira Azarm is a designer, maker, improviser, and educator. As The Innovation Instigator and Learning Experience Catalyst in the Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (that’s some word soup!), she provokes learners into becoming creative problem-solvers. She specializes in teaching how to build at low resolution, collaborate radically, lean into wild ideas, and most of all, engage across disciplines and perspectives in meaningful ways. In addition to teaching, she designs artifacts to communicate concepts and tools; co-creates programs, classes, curriculum, and workshops; and prototypes ways to weave innovation into the cultural thread of the institutions she works in. She recently completed a certificate in Experience Design through Odyssey Works, and has been learning long-form improv through the Washington Improv Theater. She’s a world recognized leader of repurposed craft and building materials, leading to her designation as the Mayor of Toilet Tube Town. This makes her a triple threat: she can build real things with scrappy materials, pretend to build things with imaginary materials, or do some combination thereof.