Allyn is currently pursuing an MS in Urban and Regional Planning. He is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for LA 250 – Survey of Landscape Architecture Design. Allyn previously worked as a policy intern for BIED International, a think tank in DC, after receiving a BA in Political Science (Theory) and a BS in Conservation and Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
When not studying or working, “free” time is distributed between reading, biking, writing, and hiking. He does this with two boys, a wife, a pup, and three cats.
I’m All-Yn
Allyn Lottouzee (Al-in | Li-TAh-zee) is an ideator, with equal parts creativity, optimism, dread, and curiosity.
Most pressingly, Allyn wishes to introduce the term Special Ecological Zones – green corridors within existing municipalities that promote environmental sustainability by instilling and insulating triple-bottom-line market systems. This would include businesses, plans, and processes that utilize subsidies, creative democracy, and community-led agreements to combat social and economic failures. Research to inform this includes: how a top-down aristocratic representative government is far from democracy; how a broken democracy leads to gerrymandering, polarization, hypercapitalism, and neoliberalism; how hypercapitalism and neoliberalism have created – if not necessitated – a disposable culture; how a disposable culture disposes relationships, leading to social atomization; how social atomization has led to hyper individualism; how hyper-individualism affects the real estate market causing both a housing crisis and market-wide inflation; and, finally, how to fight inflation and community distance through housing equitism.
Meanwhile, Allyn has been engaged in entrepreneurial pursuits concerned with environmental sustainability. This includes: CLIPP, a system designed to clip battery-powered engines in and out of semi-trucks along interstates, powered by solar and wind power collectors lining roadways; Green Minds Think Alike, a think-do tank that brings environmentally-sustainable ideas and ideators together; HotBoks, a low-cost industrial vessel capable of composting in 48 hours or less; Bokses, utilizing reusable containers kept within a closed loop of distribution; and Palletable, a hard case that clips into custom-made pallets, eliminating shrinkwrap. This currently includes activities with mentors and supporters within Milwaukee’s Startup Challenge and Madison’s Design2Product programs.