Madeleine Claire Hahn

"A ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur le plus de choses que vous pourrez; la société est coupable pour ne pas donner l'instruction gratis; elle répond de la nuit qu'elle produit. Cette âme est pleine d'ombre, le péché s'y commet. Le coupable n'est pas celui qui fait le péché, mais celui qui fait l'ombre."

-Victor Hugo

Biography
Madeleine Claire Hahn – better known as Mado, Mitch or Madzteir – was born on Manhattan's Upper East Side on March 24, 1990. She attended [:wikipedia:Charter School of Wilmington|high school] in Delaware. After graduating from Hampshire in 2012, she moved to Seattle briefly before relocating to Los Angeles for [[:wikipedia:Southern California Institute of Architecture|graduate school].

Madeleine's Division 2 was a multidisciplinary approach to Sustainability, namely, by finding greener approaches to the way we build, cook, and live out our daily lives. This wide net eventually led to the discovery of architecture as a concentration. Starting at the end of her second year, she focused almost exclusively on architecture, traveling back to New York for a semester during Division 3 to participate in an intensive studio program. Upon completion of this studio, she returned to Hampshire to design and build a cabinet meant to replace a sewing studio. Together, these projects formed her Division 3: "A Program Study in Two Scales."

She knits, cooks, bakes, and otherwise possesses all the qualities of a good old-fashioned housewife (barring the insatiable sense of wanderlust and general refusal to ). She's not entirely sure whether to be proud of this, but for now it suits her just fine. She loves learning new things and will almost try anything once.



She speaks French and is learning German. When she is as proficient in the latter as she is in the former, she will have fulfilled her goal of familiarizing herself with the two languages of her heritage (because of this, she occasionally refers to herself as "the epitome of internal conflict" or, among history buffs (which, to make it very clear, she is not), "a living Maginot line").

Her favorite forms of punctuation are (by far) parentheses, which (arguably) she uses (way too) often.

Spring 2012

 * Advanced Design+Media Lab with Thom Long

Fall 2011

 * on exchange at the New York Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies

Spring 2011

 * Renewable Energy, Art and Design with Colin Twitchell


 * Digital Constructions: Intermediate Architectural Design Studio with Thom Long at Amherst


 * Nature and Urban Space at Mount Holyoke

January 2011

 * Design/Build in the Dominican Republic (through the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, VT) cancelled by Yestermorrow

Fall 2010

 * Design Research with Gretchen Schneider


 * 3D Design: Wood at UMass


 * The City at UMass

Spring 2010

 * Improving TheHub with Chris Perry and Jeff Butera


 * Architecture Backwards & Forwards: Transforming Old Buildings for Contemporary Culture with Gretchen Schneider


 * Modern Artistic Blacksmithing (EPEC, for credit, facilitated by Jacob Lefton)


 * Elements of Sustainability with Larry Winship


 * Bodies, Guts and Bones: A Biocultural Approach to Diet and Nutrition with Pamela Stone

January 2010

 * insanity.

Fall 2009

 * Art, Nature, Technology with John Slepian (View projects here.)


 * Giving (at Amherst) Withdrew


 * Digitising Hampshire (EPEC, facilitated by Jose Fuentes and Ananda Valenzuela, no credit)


 * Mentored Independent Study -- Furniture Design (with Lilly Page-Blau)


 * German I (at the International Language Institute, Northampton, MA) (continued from Summer 2009)

Summer 2009

 * German I (at the International Language Institute, Northampton, MA)


 * "I'm Five Years Old with Fourteen Years (In)experience:" Biking 101 (independent study, no credit)

Spring 2009

 * Introduction to Writing with Deb Gorlin (View writing sample here.)


 * Computing Concepts with Lee Spector (Madeleine's projects are available here.)


 * Digitising Hampshire (Independent Study/EPEC, facilitated by Jose Fuentes and Ananda Valenzuela) (View Madeleine's work log here.)


 * Social Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Socially Responsible Enterprise with Colin Twitchell


 * German (Independent Study, facilitated by Ralph Hexter)


 * Lemelson Wars (EPEC, facilitated by Nathan Tobiason)


 * Blacksmithing (unofficial course, no credit)

January 2009

 * Speaking (like the) French (at Smith)

Fall 2008

 * Sex, Death and Teeth: Life Stories Recorded in Teeth with Alan Goodman


 * Drawing Foundation with Nat Cohen (View gallery here.)


 * Design Fundamentals I with Donna Cohn (View projects here.)

Current

 * Blacksmiths' Guild (member, Fall 2008-Spring 2012; signer, Spring 2010-Spring 2011)
 * Fencing (member, Spring 2009-Spring 2012; signer, Fall 2010-Spring 2011)
 * Excalibur (member, Spring 2009-Spring 2012)
 * Hampedia Board of Trustees (member, Fall 2009-Spring 2012)
 * Mixed Nuts (member, Fall 2010-Spring 2012)
 * SEARCH (Social Entrepreneurship Aid and Resource Center at Hampshire) (member, Spring 2009; signer, Spring 2009-Spring 2011)
 * Hampedia Project (member, Spring 2009; signer, Fall 2009-Spring 2011)
 * FiCom (member, Fall 2009-Fall 2010; Community Liaison, Spring 2010)
 * Quiz Bowl (member, Spring 2009; signer, Fall 2009)
 * Olfactory Oligarchs (member, Spring 2009)
 * Glass Collective (member, Spring 2009)
 * Necronomicon (member, Spring 2009)
 * Historical Reenactment Society (member, Spring 2009)
 * Connoisseurs of Cheesy Comestibles (member, Spring 2009)
 * Re-Rad (member, Spring 2009)
 * USELESS Hampshire (member, Spring 2009)
 * Les Bohemes (member, January 2009)

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