CURRICULUM VITAE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NICOLE KOLTICK
Department of Architecture + Interiors
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104
T +1 215 895 4992
E nrk37@drexel.edu
EDUCATION
2004 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
University of California, Los Angeles, Architecture & Urban Design; Los Angeles, California
2000 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS WITH UNIVERSITY HONORS, HIGHEST DISTINCTION
Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Department of Architecture + Interiors,
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2012-Present DIRECTOR, DESIGN FUTURES LAB
2011-Present ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
2008-2011 ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR
BROOKS COLLEGE
Department of Interior Design; Long Beach, California
2006-2008 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, STUDIO MASTER
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Architecture & Urban Design; Los Angeles, California
2004 TEACHING ASSISTANT
ACADEMIC HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012 WESTPHAL RANKIN SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE GRANT
$7,000 grant with Diana Nicholas (Drexel University)
To host the Brooklyn design collaborative, StudioMode for a lecture, exhibit and student workshop.
2012 WESTPHAL FACULTY MINI-GRANT
$3,000 for development of 3d printed prototypes,
2012 COLLEGE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING JUMPSTART GRANT
$4,000 development grant
To investigate 3d Visualization and the Indoor Ecological Micro-Biome.
Dr. Uri Hershenberg (PI), Dr. Gail Rosen, Dr. Theodore Muth Diana Nicholas, Nicole Koltick
2011 DEPARTMENTAL TECHNOLOGY COURSE DEVELOPMENT GRANT
$8,000 for Digital Fabrication Seminar
2001-2004 UCLA GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP
2003 AIA / AAF NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
MIMI PERLOFF AWARD, UCLA ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN
$3,000 award f or distinguished work in studio design
2001-2002 UCLA NON-RESIDENT FULL TUITION FELLOWSHIP
Competitive Full Tuition Award
PRESENTATIONS, COMPETITIONS AND SYMPOSIA
2013 INTERDISCIPLINARY TRANSLATIONS: WORK FROM THE DESIGN FUTURES LAB
AUTHOR, Accepted Based on Abstract
Accepted to IDA (International Design Alliance) International Conference to be held in Istanbul Turkey. November 2013
TOMORROW’S ECOLOGIES// A SYNTHETIC APPROACH
AUTHOR, Accepted based on paper
Presented at New Constellations, New Ecologies, ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) 101st National conference hosted by California College of the Arts. March 2013
A FIELD GUIDE TO GENERATING ARCHITECTURAL SPECIES
CO-AUTHOR with Matthew Lutz (Princeton University), Accepted based on paper
Presented at New Constellations, New Ecologies, ACSA 101st National conference hosted by California College of the Arts. March 2013
INTERIOR PROSTHETICS
AUTHOR, Accepted Based on Abstract
Presented at [En]coding Architecture, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. February, 2013
2012 A MATERIALITY OF AGENCY// SPECULATIONS ON THE IMPACT OF BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATION ON MATERIALITY
AUTHOR, Accepted based on paper
Presented at Digital Aptitudes, ACSA 100th National conference hosted by MIT March, 2012
2011 SYNTHETIC CAVES
CO-AUTHOR with Justin Diles (ETH, Zurich) and Thomas Wegener
Presented at Proto/eco/logics: Speculative Materialism in Architecture symposium in Rovinj, Croatia, August, 2011
This presentation displayed a project resulting from a collaborative investigation of multi-agent systems using Processing and modeling software. The final output was a speculative design proposal for the Istrian region of Croatia involving repurposed rock quarry sites and agent based ecological reclamation strategies.
2010 NASF: NORTH ATLANTIC SERVER FARM
CO-AUTHOR with Matthew Lutz, Accepted Based on Abstract
Presented at Input/Output adaptive materials and mediated environments
Symposium, Tyler School of Art, Temple University. October, 2010
2009 SWAP
WINNER, IMAGINING RECOVERY: INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION
CO-AUTHOR with Matthew Lutz (Columbia University), Design Submission
International design competition juried by Mark Wigley, Barry Bergdoll, Michael Rock, Kate Orff, Damon Rich, Brian Loughlin, Mabel Wilson, and Bernard Tschumi
June, 2009
INVITED TALKS
2013 TED x TALK: WORK FROM THE DESIGN FUTURES LAB.
TEDx Phoenixville featured speaker
Colonial Theater, Phoenixville, PA. Oct 5, 2013
TRANSDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS
Drexel University Biomimetic Design Group monthly research talk.
Drexel University, Nov, 2013.
2013 SIT: SITUATED INTERACTIVE TERRAIN WITH GRADUATE STUDENT KATIE MCHUGH.
ExCiTe Center T3 monthly series, invited presentation.
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University. July 18, 2013.
3D PRINTING RESEARCH
Drexel University Libraries Presentation on 3D Initiatives.
Drexel University, June 5,2013.
DESIGN THROUGH MAKING: RESEARCH CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE CHARRETTE
Facilitated with Assistant Professor Mike Glaser (Drexel University)
ExCiTe Center and iSchool@Drexel collaborative series
Drexel University, April 24, 2013.
DESIGN-LED RESEARCH.
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch Series
Department of Architecture + Interiors, Drexel University. March 4, 2013.
EXHIBITIONS
2013 PROJECTS 12/13: WORK FROM THE DESIGN FUTURES LAB,
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia PA, July 2013
2012 INTERIOR PROSTHETICS
URBN Center, Philadelphia PA, December 2012-December 2013.
Digitally fabricated installations from my fall 2012 seminar
CRAFTING MATERIAL EFFECTS WITH MODE
URBN Center Gallery, Philadelphia PA, October-November 2012.
Exhibition design and installation by Nicole Koltick and Diana Nicholas
SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES
ACADIA National conference, San Francisco October 2012 and
ACSA National Conference, Boston MA, March 2012.
Collaborative digitally fabricated installation.
DREXEL INTERIORS FURNITURE DESIGN EXHIBIT
Always By Design Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012
Student work taught by Nicole Koltick and Graham Bailer
2011 THE PAPER CLOUD
Model Citizen’s at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, May 2011
Satellite show to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
NASF AND RESPONSIVE SURFACE RESEARCH
Filbert Street Gallery, Philadelphia PA, April 2011
Faculty Research Exhibition
2010 NASF: NORTH ATLANTIC SERVER FARM
Input/Output adaptive materials and mediated environments
Exhibition, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA, October 2011
2009 SWAP, IMAGINING RECOVERY EXHIBITION
Berlage Institute, Rotterdam NL, June 2009
PUBLICATIONS
2013 Koltick, Nicole. "Occupy Objects." Fresh Punches: CreateSpace, 2013. Print.
ISBN: 1482345757
Koltick, Nicole. “Tomorrow’s Ecologies: A Synthetic Approach”, ACSA Proceedings. Washington, DC: ACSA 2013. Print
Koltick, Nicole and Lutz, Matthew. “A Field Guide to Generating Architectural Species”, ACSA Proceedings. Washington, DC: ACSA 2013. Print
2012 Koltick, Nicole. (2012) The Emergent Aesthetic. Thinking Nature, Volume 2, http://thinkingnaturejournal.com/
Koltick, Nicole. (May 2012) Entropic Ecologies: the Prosthetic Approach, VOLUME, 31, p.150-1. Print ISBN: 9 789 077 966 310
Editor in chief: Arjen Oosterman
Contributing editors: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley
Koltick, Nicole. “A Materiality of Agency Speculations on the Impact of Biological Computation on Materiality”, ACSA Proceedings. Washington, DC: ACSA 2012. Print
2011 Koltick, Nicole. (December 2011) “Teaching Highlights in Interior Design, The Paper Cloud” Digital Tendencies, IDEC Newsletter, Indianapolis, IN: IDEC 2011.
PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS
2014 Koltick, Nicole. "Design Futures Lab" Chapter in UnDesign, 2014.
2013 Koltick, Nicole. "Interior Prosthetics." Encoding Architecture, 2013.
RECENT MEDIA
2013 A PEEK INSIDE DREXEL’S DESIGN FUTURES LAB
Geekadelphia, August 23, 2013.
OCCUPY OBJECTS
suckerpunchdaily.com, August 2013
THIS FLOOR CAN DETECT BACTERIA, AND OTHER PRODUCT PROTOTYPES FIT FOR A SCI-FI FILM
Architizer, July 2013.
DREXEL HOSTS GALLERY OF FUTURE PRODUCTS
Metro Philadelphia, print, July 17, 2013
PROJECTS MERGE DESIGN, FUNCTION
The Triangle, print, July 12, 2013
INTERACTIVE FLOOR MATS AND "SMART BEDS": STUDENTS LOOK TO THE FUTURE OF DESIGN
the creator’s project an intel and Vice collaboration
thecreator’sproject.vice.com, July 11, 2013
BEDS THAT NUDGE YOU WHEN YOU’RE SNORING AND OTHER DREXEL DESIGN FUTURES LAB PROJECTS
Technically Philly, July 11, 2013.
NEW DREXEL EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS POTENTIAL CONSUMER PRODUCTS OF THE FUTURE
CBS Philly, July 8, 2013
DESIGN FUTURES LAB INTERVIEW WITH IAN BUSH
KYW 1060, July 8, 2013
DESIGN FUTURES LAB WITH NICOLE KOLTICK
suckerpunchdaily.com, July 2013
DESIGN FUTURES LAB EXHIBIT
Video on Drexel University’s YouTube Channel, July 2013
BACTERIA-DETECTING COUNTERTOPS, INTERACTIVE SLEEP TERRAINS AND OTHER DREXEL STUDENTS' VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
DrexelNOW, June 27, 2013.
UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION PART I: CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE
domus, online, August 3, 2011
UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION PART II: THE ARAL SEA
domus, online, August 5, 2011
UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION PART III: BAIKONUR COSMODROME
domus, online, August10, 2011
STUDENTS PLAN 21ST CENTURY DREXEL
The Triangle, print, April 8, 2011
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
2013 WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMITTEE
3D @ DREXEL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY TASK FORCE MEMBER
2012-present DIRECTOR, DESIGN FUTURES LAB
Interior Architecture + Design Master’s Thesis Research group
2012-present WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN: RESEARCH COMMITTEE
2008-present WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
COORDINATOR FOR SOFTWARE, TECHNOLOGY, FABRICATION AND REPRESENTATION CURRICULUM IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS
2011 DEVELOPED SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT MINOR
with Associate Professor Deb Ruben
CO-CHAIR ARCHITECTURE+INTERIORS ANNUAL DESIGN CHARRETTE
with Associate Professor Mark Brack
WORKSHOPS
2012 SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES: ACADIA @ DIGITAL APTITUDES
Participant in a 2 day workshop at Objet Headquarters in Billerica, MA
Run by Gil Akos, Ronnie Parsons and Andy Payne.
I designed and produced a 3D printed component that was exhibited with other components in a digitally fabricated synthetic landscape. The landscape was formally presented during a Special Focus Session on Friday, 02 March during the 100th ACSA Annual Meeting, and were part of a traveling exhibition that circulated North America in 2012. March 2012
MATERIAL MATTERS
Participant in a two day workshop at StudioMode in Brooklyn. Workshop focused on novel form generation and surfacing techniques through the use of parametric design software and the CNC mill, May 2012
PARAMETRIC DESIGN WORKSHOP
Participant in a two day workshop at StudioMode in Brooklyn, NY.
Workshop focused on parametric design using Rhino and Grasshopper, April 2012
2011 AGENTWARE AT PROTO/ECO/LOGICS: SPECULATIVE MATERIALISM IN ARCHITECTURE
Participant in a 6 day workshop and symposium in Rovinj, Croatia.
Run by Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez of biothing. This workshop was a collaborative investigation of multi-agent systems using Processing and modeling software. The final output was a series of speculative design proposals for the Istrian region of Croatia, August 2011
UNKOWN FIELDS DIVISION ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION (LONDON,UK)
Traveled with the Unknown Fields Division on a 3 week research trip to Chernobyl and Kiev, Ukraine and Almaty, Baikonour and Astana in Kazakhstan, July 2011
COLLABORATORS
DESIGN FUTURES LAB
Dr. Uri Hershenberg (Drexel University, Biomedical Engineering), Matthew Lutz (Princeton
University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Colin Twomey (Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
INDOOR ECOLOGY AND THE MICROBIOME
Dr. Theodore Muth, (CUNY Brooklyn College, Biology), Dr. Uri
Hershenberg (Drexel University, Biomedical Engineering), Dr. Gail L. Rosen, (Drexel University, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Diana Nicholas, (Drexel University, Architecture + Interiors)
BIOMIMETIC DESIGN GROUP
Dr. Uri Hershenberg (Drexel University, Biomedical Engineering), Michael Glaser (Drexel University, Product Design), Dr. James Tangorra (Drexel University, Mechanical Engineering), Dr. Ani Tsieh (Drexel University, Mechanical Engineering), Genevieve Dion (Drexel University, Fashion Design), Dr. Tonia Tsieh (Temple University, Biology), Dr. Elias Spiliotis (Drexel University, Biology)
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED
2013-2014 DESIGN FUTURES LAB GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Courtney Walker, Amanda Noumoff
2012-2013 DESIGN FUTURES LAB MASTER’S THESIS RESEARCH GROUP
Katie McHugh, Kimberly Brown, Laura Nejman, Mamdouh Sajer, Megan Mitchell, Sarah Moores and Tashia Tucker
2011-2012 MASTER IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE THESIS
Elizabeth Kahn
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Interior Design Educators Council
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NICOLE KOLTICK
Department of Architecture + Interiors
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104
T +1 215 895 4992
E nrk37@drexel.edu
EDUCATION
2004 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
University of California, Los Angeles, Architecture & Urban Design; Los Angeles, California
2000 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS WITH UNIVERSITY HONORS, HIGHEST DISTINCTION
Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Department of Architecture + Interiors,
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2012-Present DIRECTOR, DESIGN FUTURES LAB
2011-Present ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
2008-2011 ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR
BROOKS COLLEGE
Department of Interior Design; Long Beach, California
2006-2008 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, STUDIO MASTER
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Architecture & Urban Design; Los Angeles, California
2004 TEACHING ASSISTANT
ACADEMIC HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012 WESTPHAL RANKIN SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE GRANT
$7,000 grant with Diana Nicholas (Drexel University)
To host the Brooklyn design collaborative, StudioMode for a lecture, exhibit and student workshop.
2012 WESTPHAL FACULTY MINI-GRANT
$3,000 for development of 3d printed prototypes,
2012 COLLEGE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING JUMPSTART GRANT
$4,000 development grant
To investigate 3d Visualization and the Indoor Ecological Micro-Biome.
Dr. Uri Hershenberg (PI), Dr. Gail Rosen, Dr. Theodore Muth Diana Nicholas, Nicole Koltick
2011 DEPARTMENTAL TECHNOLOGY COURSE DEVELOPMENT GRANT
$8,000 for Digital Fabrication Seminar
2001-2004 UCLA GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP
2003 AIA / AAF NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
MIMI PERLOFF AWARD, UCLA ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN
$3,000 award f or distinguished work in studio design
2001-2002 UCLA NON-RESIDENT FULL TUITION FELLOWSHIP
Competitive Full Tuition Award
PRESENTATIONS, COMPETITIONS AND SYMPOSIA
2013 INTERDISCIPLINARY TRANSLATIONS: WORK FROM THE DESIGN FUTURES LAB
AUTHOR, Accepted Based on Abstract
Accepted to IDA (International Design Alliance) International Conference to be held in Istanbul Turkey. November 2013
TOMORROW’S ECOLOGIES// A SYNTHETIC APPROACH
AUTHOR, Accepted based on paper
Presented at New Constellations, New Ecologies, ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) 101st National conference hosted by California College of the Arts. March 2013
A FIELD GUIDE TO GENERATING ARCHITECTURAL SPECIES
CO-AUTHOR with Matthew Lutz (Princeton University), Accepted based on paper
Presented at New Constellations, New Ecologies, ACSA 101st National conference hosted by California College of the Arts. March 2013
INTERIOR PROSTHETICS
AUTHOR, Accepted Based on Abstract
Presented at [En]coding Architecture, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. February, 2013
2012 A MATERIALITY OF AGENCY// SPECULATIONS ON THE IMPACT OF BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATION ON MATERIALITY
AUTHOR, Accepted based on paper
Presented at Digital Aptitudes, ACSA 100th National conference hosted by MIT March, 2012
2011 SYNTHETIC CAVES
CO-AUTHOR with Justin Diles (ETH, Zurich) and Thomas Wegener
Presented at Proto/eco/logics: Speculative Materialism in Architecture symposium in Rovinj, Croatia, August, 2011
This presentation displayed a project resulting from a collaborative investigation of multi-agent systems using Processing and modeling software. The final output was a speculative design proposal for the Istrian region of Croatia involving repurposed rock quarry sites and agent based ecological reclamation strategies.
2010 NASF: NORTH ATLANTIC SERVER FARM
CO-AUTHOR with Matthew Lutz, Accepted Based on Abstract
Presented at Input/Output adaptive materials and mediated environments
Symposium, Tyler School of Art, Temple University. October, 2010
2009 SWAP
WINNER, IMAGINING RECOVERY: INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION
CO-AUTHOR with Matthew Lutz (Columbia University), Design Submission
International design competition juried by Mark Wigley, Barry Bergdoll, Michael Rock, Kate Orff, Damon Rich, Brian Loughlin, Mabel Wilson, and Bernard Tschumi
June, 2009
INVITED TALKS
2013 TED x TALK: WORK FROM THE DESIGN FUTURES LAB.
TEDx Phoenixville featured speaker
Colonial Theater, Phoenixville, PA. Oct 5, 2013
TRANSDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS
Drexel University Biomimetic Design Group monthly research talk.
Drexel University, Nov, 2013.
2013 SIT: SITUATED INTERACTIVE TERRAIN WITH GRADUATE STUDENT KATIE MCHUGH.
ExCiTe Center T3 monthly series, invited presentation.
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University. July 18, 2013.
3D PRINTING RESEARCH
Drexel University Libraries Presentation on 3D Initiatives.
Drexel University, June 5,2013.
DESIGN THROUGH MAKING: RESEARCH CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE CHARRETTE
Facilitated with Assistant Professor Mike Glaser (Drexel University)
ExCiTe Center and iSchool@Drexel collaborative series
Drexel University, April 24, 2013.
DESIGN-LED RESEARCH.
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch Series
Department of Architecture + Interiors, Drexel University. March 4, 2013.
EXHIBITIONS
2013 PROJECTS 12/13: WORK FROM THE DESIGN FUTURES LAB,
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia PA, July 2013
2012 INTERIOR PROSTHETICS
URBN Center, Philadelphia PA, December 2012-December 2013.
Digitally fabricated installations from my fall 2012 seminar
CRAFTING MATERIAL EFFECTS WITH MODE
URBN Center Gallery, Philadelphia PA, October-November 2012.
Exhibition design and installation by Nicole Koltick and Diana Nicholas
SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES
ACADIA National conference, San Francisco October 2012 and
ACSA National Conference, Boston MA, March 2012.
Collaborative digitally fabricated installation.
DREXEL INTERIORS FURNITURE DESIGN EXHIBIT
Always By Design Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012
Student work taught by Nicole Koltick and Graham Bailer
2011 THE PAPER CLOUD
Model Citizen’s at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, May 2011
Satellite show to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair
NASF AND RESPONSIVE SURFACE RESEARCH
Filbert Street Gallery, Philadelphia PA, April 2011
Faculty Research Exhibition
2010 NASF: NORTH ATLANTIC SERVER FARM
Input/Output adaptive materials and mediated environments
Exhibition, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA, October 2011
2009 SWAP, IMAGINING RECOVERY EXHIBITION
Berlage Institute, Rotterdam NL, June 2009
PUBLICATIONS
2013 Koltick, Nicole. "Occupy Objects." Fresh Punches: CreateSpace, 2013. Print.
ISBN: 1482345757
Koltick, Nicole. “Tomorrow’s Ecologies: A Synthetic Approach”, ACSA Proceedings. Washington, DC: ACSA 2013. Print
Koltick, Nicole and Lutz, Matthew. “A Field Guide to Generating Architectural Species”, ACSA Proceedings. Washington, DC: ACSA 2013. Print
2012 Koltick, Nicole. (2012) The Emergent Aesthetic. Thinking Nature, Volume 2, http://thinkingnaturejournal.com/
Koltick, Nicole. (May 2012) Entropic Ecologies: the Prosthetic Approach, VOLUME, 31, p.150-1. Print ISBN: 9 789 077 966 310
Editor in chief: Arjen Oosterman
Contributing editors: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley
Koltick, Nicole. “A Materiality of Agency Speculations on the Impact of Biological Computation on Materiality”, ACSA Proceedings. Washington, DC: ACSA 2012. Print
2011 Koltick, Nicole. (December 2011) “Teaching Highlights in Interior Design, The Paper Cloud” Digital Tendencies, IDEC Newsletter, Indianapolis, IN: IDEC 2011.
PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS
2014 Koltick, Nicole. "Design Futures Lab" Chapter in UnDesign, 2014.
2013 Koltick, Nicole. "Interior Prosthetics." Encoding Architecture, 2013.
RECENT MEDIA
2013 A PEEK INSIDE DREXEL’S DESIGN FUTURES LAB
Geekadelphia, August 23, 2013.
OCCUPY OBJECTS
suckerpunchdaily.com, August 2013
THIS FLOOR CAN DETECT BACTERIA, AND OTHER PRODUCT PROTOTYPES FIT FOR A SCI-FI FILM
Architizer, July 2013.
DREXEL HOSTS GALLERY OF FUTURE PRODUCTS
Metro Philadelphia, print, July 17, 2013
PROJECTS MERGE DESIGN, FUNCTION
The Triangle, print, July 12, 2013
INTERACTIVE FLOOR MATS AND "SMART BEDS": STUDENTS LOOK TO THE FUTURE OF DESIGN
the creator’s project an intel and Vice collaboration
thecreator’sproject.vice.com, July 11, 2013
BEDS THAT NUDGE YOU WHEN YOU’RE SNORING AND OTHER DREXEL DESIGN FUTURES LAB PROJECTS
Technically Philly, July 11, 2013.
NEW DREXEL EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS POTENTIAL CONSUMER PRODUCTS OF THE FUTURE
CBS Philly, July 8, 2013
DESIGN FUTURES LAB INTERVIEW WITH IAN BUSH
KYW 1060, July 8, 2013
DESIGN FUTURES LAB WITH NICOLE KOLTICK
suckerpunchdaily.com, July 2013
DESIGN FUTURES LAB EXHIBIT
Video on Drexel University’s YouTube Channel, July 2013
BACTERIA-DETECTING COUNTERTOPS, INTERACTIVE SLEEP TERRAINS AND OTHER DREXEL STUDENTS' VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
DrexelNOW, June 27, 2013.
UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION PART I: CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE
domus, online, August 3, 2011
UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION PART II: THE ARAL SEA
domus, online, August 5, 2011
UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION PART III: BAIKONUR COSMODROME
domus, online, August10, 2011
STUDENTS PLAN 21ST CENTURY DREXEL
The Triangle, print, April 8, 2011
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
2013 WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMITTEE
3D @ DREXEL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY TASK FORCE MEMBER
2012-present DIRECTOR, DESIGN FUTURES LAB
Interior Architecture + Design Master’s Thesis Research group
2012-present WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN: RESEARCH COMMITTEE
2008-present WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
COORDINATOR FOR SOFTWARE, TECHNOLOGY, FABRICATION AND REPRESENTATION CURRICULUM IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS
2011 DEVELOPED SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT MINOR
with Associate Professor Deb Ruben
CO-CHAIR ARCHITECTURE+INTERIORS ANNUAL DESIGN CHARRETTE
with Associate Professor Mark Brack
WORKSHOPS
2012 SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES: ACADIA @ DIGITAL APTITUDES
Participant in a 2 day workshop at Objet Headquarters in Billerica, MA
Run by Gil Akos, Ronnie Parsons and Andy Payne.
I designed and produced a 3D printed component that was exhibited with other components in a digitally fabricated synthetic landscape. The landscape was formally presented during a Special Focus Session on Friday, 02 March during the 100th ACSA Annual Meeting, and were part of a traveling exhibition that circulated North America in 2012. March 2012
MATERIAL MATTERS
Participant in a two day workshop at StudioMode in Brooklyn. Workshop focused on novel form generation and surfacing techniques through the use of parametric design software and the CNC mill, May 2012
PARAMETRIC DESIGN WORKSHOP
Participant in a two day workshop at StudioMode in Brooklyn, NY.
Workshop focused on parametric design using Rhino and Grasshopper, April 2012
2011 AGENTWARE AT PROTO/ECO/LOGICS: SPECULATIVE MATERIALISM IN ARCHITECTURE
Participant in a 6 day workshop and symposium in Rovinj, Croatia.
Run by Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez of biothing. This workshop was a collaborative investigation of multi-agent systems using Processing and modeling software. The final output was a series of speculative design proposals for the Istrian region of Croatia, August 2011
UNKOWN FIELDS DIVISION ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION (LONDON,UK)
Traveled with the Unknown Fields Division on a 3 week research trip to Chernobyl and Kiev, Ukraine and Almaty, Baikonour and Astana in Kazakhstan, July 2011
COLLABORATORS
DESIGN FUTURES LAB
Dr. Uri Hershenberg (Drexel University, Biomedical Engineering), Matthew Lutz (Princeton
University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Colin Twomey (Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
INDOOR ECOLOGY AND THE MICROBIOME
Dr. Theodore Muth, (CUNY Brooklyn College, Biology), Dr. Uri
Hershenberg (Drexel University, Biomedical Engineering), Dr. Gail L. Rosen, (Drexel University, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Diana Nicholas, (Drexel University, Architecture + Interiors)
BIOMIMETIC DESIGN GROUP
Dr. Uri Hershenberg (Drexel University, Biomedical Engineering), Michael Glaser (Drexel University, Product Design), Dr. James Tangorra (Drexel University, Mechanical Engineering), Dr. Ani Tsieh (Drexel University, Mechanical Engineering), Genevieve Dion (Drexel University, Fashion Design), Dr. Tonia Tsieh (Temple University, Biology), Dr. Elias Spiliotis (Drexel University, Biology)
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED
2013-2014 DESIGN FUTURES LAB GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Courtney Walker, Amanda Noumoff
2012-2013 DESIGN FUTURES LAB MASTER’S THESIS RESEARCH GROUP
Katie McHugh, Kimberly Brown, Laura Nejman, Mamdouh Sajer, Megan Mitchell, Sarah Moores and Tashia Tucker
2011-2012 MASTER IN INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE THESIS
Elizabeth Kahn
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Interior Design Educators Council
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture