Brian Fössl
Shop Coordinator | Technician, Design Wood Shop
Bio
Brian's role has been to guide students in turning their conceptual ideas into tangible outcomes. Students share their ideas, and together they conceive of a suitable pathway to fabricate a project. Developing the student's shop skills to support that pathway is an extremely rewarding process for him. The students are always coming up with ideas that challenge them to find solutions together.
Research Interests
Brian is a shop technologies educator, and although he has been freelancing wood-based projects for the last 30 years, he has primarily been anchored in an educational shop setting since 2001. Brian's personal practice includes furniture design and fabrication, making wooden home utensils including bowl turning and wooden cutlery and building playground and garden structures. Other areas of practice and interest include paper making, wood harvesting, the productive utilizations of wood off-cuts which often appears as hoarding and photography (but that was a long time ago).