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R. Scott Mitchell is the owner/principal of Gigante AG, a Los Angeles design-build and fabrication consulting firm. He has worked for Gehry Partners, Morphosis, Bestor Architecture and Atelier Van Lieshout. Early in his career, he worked as both a laboratory instrument maker and structural fabricator. His work has appeared in Metropolis, Dezeen, Fast Company, Wired, Architectural Record, Interior Design, and Designboom. He was the co-editor of the book Give Me Shelter: Architecture Takes on the Homeless Crisis, published by ORO Editions in 2018. Scott was a research resident at Autodesk’s Technology Center in Boston, and has exhibited at the European Cultural Center in Venice, High Desert Test Sites, Vox Populi Gallery, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Since 2007, he has been teaching digital fabrication and design at the USC School of Architecture. He is on the advisory board of 826LA, a children’s educational non-profit.