Dr. Jess Voss holds a Bachelor of Architecture professional degree from Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, is an NCARB registered architect in the USA, and has practiced extensively in California, Utah, Idaho, Ohio, and Wisconsin as a Senior Design/Project Architect in commercial, residential, industrial, institutional, and educational project types. He earned his PhD in Architecture at the University of Wisconsin under Distinguished Professor Amos Rapoport. Professor Rapoport, now retired, was instrumental in creating the interdisciplinary field of Environment-Behavior Research, and Voss was his last student. Dr. Voss’ current research interests are in “Culture and the Built Environment” and “Deep Sustainability” and are focused on enabling students and practitioners in the fields of architecture, planning, arts, environmental design, and other fields to work from a single perspective toward a more deeply sustainable future. He teaches Architectural and Masters of Art and Design Studios, classes in Materials and Methods, Architectural Technologies, Acoustics, Lighting, and a graduate seminar class on Deep Sustainability.

Ph.D., Architecture, University of Wisconsin, USA, 2008

B.A., Architecture, San Luis Obispo, California, USA, 1992

Refereed Conferences

Voss, J. (2009) Extending an existing Agent Based Modeling Simulation of the Long House Valley Anasazi Indians of the 4 Corners Area. Symposium on Applying Rapoport’s Theoretical Frameworks to Culture Environment Research. The 40th EDRA Conference: The Ethical Design of Places Kansas City, KS, USA. May 27-31.

Voss, J. (2009) Scientific Grounding for Complex Agent Based Model Development, Reverse Engineering, and Redesign: Use of NVivo + UML on the Long House Valley Artificial Anasazi Model as a round trip data tracking protocol. The First Annual Complexity Conference: Computational Techniques in Complex Systems at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor’s Center for Study of Complex Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. May 16.

Voss, J., Gumerman, G., and Swedlund, A. (2009) Sustainability and Population Collapse in a Northern Arizona Region. The Santa Fe Institute, by invitation. Santa Fe, NM, USA. June 5.

Voss, J., and Swedlund, A. (2004) Use of Agent Based Modeling to Understand Disease Propagation Within the Anasazi. The annual meeting of The Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology, London, Ontario, Canada, October 28-30.

Voss, J. (2003) Agent Based Modeling Simulation (ABMS). The Special Symposium Inquiry by Image/Inquiry for Image: Emerging Methods, at the 34th EDRA conference Culture, Quality of Life, and Globalization: Problems and Challenges for the New Millennium, Minneapolis, MN, USA. May 21-23.

Voss, J. (2003) Sustainability, Meaning, and Access to the Belief Space in Digital Age Environments. The 34th EDRA conference Culture, Quality of Life, and Globalization: Problems and Challenges for the New Millennium, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 21-25.

Voss, J. (2002) Criticality of Ontological Relativity to Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Modeling of Human Cultures for Intelligence Analysis and Intervention Design. The 17th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics.

Voss, J. (2002) Evolutionary and Socio-Spatial Grounding of Altruism. The Culture, Quality of Life and Globalization: Problems and Challenges for the New Millennium. The 17th Conference of the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS), La Coruna, Spain, 17, July 23-27.

Voss, J. (2001) CAS modeling of genes, mind, and culture in an ecological context. The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences, Adaptive Agents, Intelligence, and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity through Agent-Based Modeling, Irvine, California, USA, October 4-6.

Voss, J. (2001) Minds, Cultures, the Environment, and Altruism: a meta model using Particle Swarm + Agent Based Modeling. The Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop, Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. April 6-7.

Voss, J. (2001) Non-Verbal Communication: its use as a tool to clarify the nature of the rifts between Explanatory Theory and Architectural Theory. The EDRA 32/2001: Old World New Ideas: environmental and cultural change and tradition in a shrinking world, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 3-6.

Voss, J. (2000) Agent Based Modeling: a non-technical definition for Architects and Environment-Behavior Researchers (No. http://www.cadrc.calpoly.edu/pdf/JSVoss_120400.pdf). San Luis Obispo: Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.

Voss, J. (2000) The Environmental Dimensions of Altruism and Pro-Social Behavior. The IAPS 16th Metropolis 21st Century: which perspectives? Cities, Social Life and Sustainable Development, Paris, France, July 4-7.

Voss, J. (2000) Transcending Geographies of Paradox: coextensive essences of phenomenological and scientific inquiry. The 31st Environmental Design Research Association Conference: EDRA 31/2000, Building Bridges: Connecting People, Research, and Design, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Voss, J. (2000) Use of Neural Nets to capture complex person-environment relationships: a prelude to "soft-wired" micro-specification modules for Complex Adaptive System modeling. The InterSymp - 2000: 12th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, July 31-August 4.