Beth Ferguson is the founding director of the Adapting City Lab and assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Design. She is an ecological designer whose practice blends industrial design with sustainable transportation, solar engineering, climate resiliency, and public engagement. Ferguson is the director of Sol Design Lab, a design/build studio that specializes in solar charging stations and was awarded the Austin Green Award in 2017 for the Austin Energy Electric Drive Solar Kiosk. She participated in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge with the interdisciplinary team Public Sediment, which won the Honor Award for Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2019. Her interdisciplinary work has been exhibited at the Exploratorium Museum, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, TEDx Presidio, Bay Area Maker Faire, and the Otago Museum in New Zealand. Her collaborative work has been featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, BBC and Texas Architect Magazine. She is a San Francisco Autodesk Technology Center Fellow and member of the Women in Design advisory council for the Industrial Designers Society of America.