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Faculty + Staff

Purva
Chawla
Adjunct Lecturer

After practicing as an architect in the United States and India, Purva founded MaterialDriven in 2016. In launching the platform, her goal was to create a space where innovative materials and their manufacturing could be broadcast in an open source format. Since then, MaterialDriven’s growth into a consultancy, curatorial agency, and materials library, based in the US, UK, and Spain, has allowed her to promote sustainable and circular design, and support material developers in their journey from innovative prototype to market. Her work at MaterialDriven has resulted in a variety of outcomes–from research, writing and teaching, to new product design and spatial development.

In addition to consulting and curatorial work for MaterialDriven’s clients–ranging from brands in fashion, and consumer goods to architecture, retail and hospitality–Purva pursues her passion for design education by delivering lectures, sustainability focused courses and workshops for universities and institutions across the globe. She is presently an Adjunct Lecturer at Southern Methodist University in Texas, and a visiting Lecturer each semester at the Kingston School of Art in London. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design in Philadelphia, and the Sushant School of Art andArchitecture in New Delhi, India.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.