When asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, Harrison said he wanted to be handsome. Or a firefighter! To his childhood self’s disappointment, Harrison ended up as neither, instead becoming a mechanical engineer, physical creative, and environmental advocate.
When asked who his heroes are, Harrison won’t stop gushing about sculptors like Isamu Noguchi and Yayoi Kusama, engineers like Santiago Calatrava and Horacio Pagani, or designers like Dieter Rams and Neri Oxman. Whether or not he’d like them all at the same dinner table is another question.
His body of work centers around balancing formal desires and functional needs, and measures the success of his work through the extent which it kindles emotion, elicits interpretation, or evokes contemplation.
Harrison is curious about the world’s most critical sustainability challenges: he envisions a world where businesses seek to satisfy peoples’ needs simply and elegantly instead of stoking discontent and desire, where resource regeneration eclipses consumption, and where product designers plan every product’s end-of-life. He hopes to collaborate with industry leaders to craft a future where peoples’ material lives are rich, abundant, intentional, and meaningful without polluting the planet’s natural resources or endangering the survival of other species.
Harrison’s small joy is making coffee for others - having worked as a barista during college, his dream is to run a quiet plant-filled cafe serving homemade nut milk lattes. In his free time, one may find Harrison climbing big rocks, surfing small waves, playing a little ditty on the ukulele. Possibly at the same time.