Beth Ann Falstad is a lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research areas include well-being, sustainability, public practice art and participatory design. Dr. Falstad is the founder of The Building Community, a nonprofit organization using collaborative methods to build supportive, transitional ecovillage housing for unhoused individuals in Los Angeles. She has published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability, Ecological Indicators, Solutions, Sustainability, The Sustainability Collection, and the edition, “Intellectual, Scientific and Educational Influences in Sustainability Research.” In addition to her inclusion in a long list of national and international art exhibitions, Dr. Falstad presented her research at the Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, the Ninth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies and the Spaces and Flows Research Network, the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the International Society of Quality of Life Studies Annual Conference in 2017. Dr. Falstad received her Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University, a Masters of Fine Arts in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art.
