About

Alex R. Mann is a designer, critical urbanist, communicator and educator residing in the Pacific Northwest.

Alex is a graduate of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program at Washington State University (WSU). His landscape designs can be found across Washington State, from Seattle to Spokane and beyond.

He also holds a Master of Science in Human-Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington (UW) where he served as a research assistant at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics. His capstone research at Intel Corporation explored design scenarios for autonomous vehicles.

In 2016, Alex joined the Urban & Regional Planning faculty at Eastern Washington University. He would later become an urban designer at the City of Spokane, and an adjunct instructor at the WSU School of Design and Construction during the COVID-19 shutdown. During this time, they became the school’s online communications coordinator.

Alex is a past artist-in-residence at Laboratory Spokane and a past member of the Richmond Art Collective. During this time, he created visual and kinetic interactive art, including Organisynth and HOME$4$ALE. His writing has been published in U.C. Berkeley’s Ground Up Journal.