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Corwin Green
2025 SVA Ecology Fellow
Corwin Green (he/him/his) is a multidisciplinary designer, educator and studio founder specializing in communication design, garden design, social innovation, and design pedagogy.
He is co-founder and Head of Creative of Verru Design, a Brooklyn-based design practice that focuses on advancing the design of landscapes through community-based research and archiving human interaction with the natural world. Verru’s landscapes contextualize the culture and community in which they are positioned. Its portfolio reflects a range of projects, from urban streetscapes and residential backyards to speculative, rural restorations.
He previously worked at the Prospect Park Alliance as a generalist designer in the Marketing and Communications Department. Additionally, as a design researcher, Corwin developed a scope of designed communication channels and tactics for a pilot campaign for the Department of Environmental Protection and the FAB Fulton Business Improvement District, which focuses on cultural corridors and the importance of small businesses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
As an educator and communication designer, his foci are the transformational aspects of design thinking and how collective power is created in design and art. He is fascinated by brand development and engagement, the function and dysfunction of cities, and the ways space can be augmented and manipulated. A Massachusetts native, he earned an MFA from the Pratt Institute. He has been a faculty member at the Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation and a visiting critic at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and New York Botanical Gardens.
He is co-founder and Head of Creative of Verru Design, a Brooklyn-based design practice that focuses on advancing the design of landscapes through community-based research and archiving human interaction with the natural world. Verru’s landscapes contextualize the culture and community in which they are positioned. Its portfolio reflects a range of projects, from urban streetscapes and residential backyards to speculative, rural restorations.
He previously worked at the Prospect Park Alliance as a generalist designer in the Marketing and Communications Department. Additionally, as a design researcher, Corwin developed a scope of designed communication channels and tactics for a pilot campaign for the Department of Environmental Protection and the FAB Fulton Business Improvement District, which focuses on cultural corridors and the importance of small businesses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
As an educator and communication designer, his foci are the transformational aspects of design thinking and how collective power is created in design and art. He is fascinated by brand development and engagement, the function and dysfunction of cities, and the ways space can be augmented and manipulated. A Massachusetts native, he earned an MFA from the Pratt Institute. He has been a faculty member at the Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation and a visiting critic at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and New York Botanical Gardens.
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