About Me
About Tiny City Living
Tiny City Living is a transformative lifestyle and transcendentalist (reworked) mindset diverted away from traditional society norms and expectations. It is the idea that everything is connected and creating multiple developments in parallel produces more sustainable and adaptive structures and systems. This type of informative designing and implementing improves old systems to work and thrive on increasing the quality of life for the majority of the population. It also focuses on the preservation and merger of landscape throughout the urban fabric to address and adopt better climate change measures moving into the next decades.
About My Writings
My goal in my writing is to release my fear of being seen and embrace my full potential because a happy existence is knowing how to fully be yourself unapologetically, having an open heart, and being flexible to bend with life challenges.
About Vanessa Conyers
I share with you my life and my passions. My ideas on how to create better sustainable and equitable systems in our homes, communities, cities, social relations, institutions, and digital solutions. Systems that can web together more equitable, cohesive, and inclusive communities, create architectural solutions for social problems in our neighborhoods, buildings, and spaces, and peg together real world assets and digital assets to stabilize and balance the old financial market with a new financial market. This can be achieved by tethering multiple blockchain web3 applications together in more practical and meaningful and fully decentralized ways.
About My Professional Catalyst
Up until four years ago my life and mindset was very narrow. This narrow focus was on other people and professional work within a limited scope and limited opportunity, based on what other people allow you to do within an institution. Many of those opportunities are tied to your likability and colorfulness within these institutions, and limited by the insecurities and fears others feel if you outshine them and their personal biases.
I spent fourteen years inside of these types of organizations that don’t foster personal development for everyone equally nor do they traditionally celebrate new ideas outside of the old and mainstream. It is very easy to lose your way if you continue in the wrong direction over an extended period of time. This is what happened to me after fourteen years into my professional development journey. I had to take my exit from this type of environment to focus on my physical, mental and emotional health and well-being again. It was at that moment that everything caught up with me and I couldn’t continue on the path of self-neglect for the sake of work, so I was faced with making a difficult decision. What is more important, your health or your work?
About My Professional Work
While I worked and completed a bunch of interesting things and projects and I am proud to have had the experience, it was hard for me to thrive and to completely realize my own talents and natural abilities in the thick of working for someone else. I met a lot of great people, worked on amazing teams and created long lasting friendships. My previous graphic and architectural work experience of the built environment and art ranges from glass, cable and steel frame art installations that suspend in space from the ceiling of a three story university lobby atrium; to the complex, 521,000-square-foot Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, a world-renowned and one of the first of it’s kind LEED Platinum children’s hospital that incorporated water conservation, greywater recycling, and biophilic design concepts.
Other architectural project types I have experience in are medical, laboratory, academic, civic, high-rise commercial and residential structures. These projects were in urban centers like Auckland New Zealand, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and academic centers like University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Stanford University, and Ohio State University, and many different cities and towns in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Connecticut, Montana, Ohio, and California. I have worked with different mediums to design and create my own expression. Mediums such as sketching, 3D modeling, physical models, writing, reading, meditating, hiking, and woodwork crafting helped me define my own insight, foresight, and hindsight vocabulary for tethering connections between similar and different systems: natural or synthetic, and physical or digital.
About My Love to Connect, Adapt and Educate
What I have learned throughout my professional career is my love and need for connecting, collaborating, and coordinating between users, clients, consultants, contractors, and peers. I am in my zone talking, caring, and getting to know people, and fostering great relationships to improve communication and streamline coordination between events, tasks, and projects. Moving to different states for great work opportunities molded me to be adaptive and flexible when starting anew after transitioning. After moving so much you learn how to touch down and hit the ground running full speed upon arriving at a new destination. Also, I discovered my love for breaking down complex information to bite-sized understandable pieces of information for others to understand easier.
About My Crypto Experience
Overall my eighteen years of experience in architecture leads me to search in new directions to tether together all of my experience in hope of creating something that will solve a societal problem and blend together better social practices. My current experience draws on blending digital blockchain technology with physical space and traditional systems.
I was a product designer for Oya Protocol, a p2p e-commerce protocol that was a finalist at HackMoney 2020. I have educated people on using digital wallets and hosted Crypto 101 talks with friends and family. Currently, I am working on systems to help DAOs meaningfully own and control real-world assets through off-chain custodians with on-chain bonds, rather than simply trusting a legal entity or multi-signature wallets. My goal is to make the crypto experience fully decentralized, user-friendly, adaptable to mainstream usage, and more transparent. Stay tuned for updates about my current project that aims to do this called web2dao!