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The Center for Design is Northeastern’s platform for interdisciplinary design research; it’s a space for collaborative research activities and a hub for connecting the actors of the design eco-system. It aims at sharing knowledge and practices, shaping common tools and methods, strengthening a unified disciplinary ground. Explore Center for Design faculty, researchers, affiliate members, and partners in industry, academia, and more.

Core Faculty Members

Paolo Ciuccarelli
Director, Professor
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Estefania Ciliotta Chehade
Associate Director
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Pedro M. Cruz
Associate Professor
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Laura Forlano
Professor
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Casper Harteveld
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Professor
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Miso Kim
Director of CAMD Masters Programs, Associate Professor
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Kristian Kloeckl
Associate Professor
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Michael Arnold Mages
Associate Professor, Co-Director
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Mark Sivak
Creative Media Division Head, Teaching Professor
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Staff & Co-op Students

Julie Farkas, Communications Specialist
Katie Kim, Center for Design Co-op

Bridges Fellows

Alpha Yacob Arsano, Assistant Professor
Myojung Chung, Associate Professor

Previous Bridges Fellows

Sankalp Bhatnagar, NuLawLab, Library Innovation Lab, metaLAB
Sofía Bosch Gómez, Assistant Professor
Beth Molnar, Professor, Director of the PhD Program in Population Health
Pierre-Valery Tchetgen, Assistant Professor

Students-in-Residence

Urooj Haider: MFA in Experience Design, CAMD
Ishita Khurana: MS in Product Development, College of Engineering
Cristhel Santillan: MS in Experience Design, CAMD

Affiliate Members

Rahul Bhargava, Assistant Professor
Massimo Bianchini, Politecnico di Milano
Sara Jensen Carr, Associate Professor
Hugh Dubberly, Dubberly Design Office
Nathan Felde, Professor
Aleksandra Jakubowski, Assistant Professor
Paul Kahn, Lecturer
Chris Le Dantec, Professor
Sara Lenzi, University of Deusto
Todd Linkner, Assistant Teaching Professor
Stefano Maffei, Politecnico di Milano
Tucker Marion, Associate Professor
Susan Mello, Associate Professor
Mohsen Moghaddam, Assistant Professor
Najla Mouchrek, Associate Teaching Professor
Dietmar Offenhuber, Associate Professor, Department Chair of Art + Design
Herman Saksono, Assistant Professor
Katherine Simmonds, Clinical Professor, Associate Director of Health Programs
Aniek Toet, TU Delft, Royal Schiphol Group
Giovanni Troiano, Visiting Assistant Professor
Beatrice Villari, Politecnico di Milano
Lu Wang, University of Michigan

Previous Affiliate Members

U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, Artist and Creative Consultant
William Albert, UX Researcher
Jeanette Andrews, Magician and Speaker
Sara Colombo, Eindhoven University of Technology
Andrea Cosentini, Intesa Sanpaolo
Maria Finkelmeir, Berklee College of Music
Sofie Hodara, Assistant Teaching Professor
Lucia Marengo, UX Researcher
Piero Molino, Predibase
Martha Rettig, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Rohan Tandon, Product Experience Designer
Linda Tvrdy, Center for Health Policy and Law
Stephen Wood, Director, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program

“Like all platforms for experimentation, metaLAB is less a destination than a perpetual work in progress. Rooted in the arts and humanities, straddling scholarly, critical, and creative practice, it is a community of scholars, designers, artists, makers, technologists, curators, and educators dedicated to modeling new forms of cultural communication, creative and critical practice, and knowledge production.”

metaLab Harvard

“Formerly known as Design Museum Everywhere, Co-Design Collaborative curates and produces design-centered exhibitions, publications, and educational initiatives for creative problem solvers of all ages and career levels. Started in Boston by two designers, we are now a remote-first nonprofit with core communities in Boston, Portland (Oregon), San Francisco, New York City, and beyond.

We believe that design is everywhere. We are a community motivated by curiosity, collaboration, and co-creation. While many of members are designers, much of our community consists of educators, activists, and creative professionals who are not “designers” in the traditional sense, but are connected in their desire to design for a better world.

Our programs and resources highlight innovations in design and social change within four key impact areas: Community, Workplace, Education, and the Environment.”

Co-Design Collaborative

“The DRS is the longest established, multi-disciplinary worldwide society for the design research community. […] The purpose of the DRS, as embodied in its first statement of rules, was to promote the study of and research into the process of designing in all its many fields.”

Design Research Society

“Dubberly Design Office (DDO) is focused on making hardware, software, and services easier to use. Our practice is also known for excellence in information design, especially for using concept maps to represent complex topics and processes from Java and the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) to Heart Attacks and Play. We like making complex information clear and seek out complex projects.”

Dubberly Design Office

“As an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution founded in 1929, JAX leverages its unique combination of research, education, and resources to achieve its mission: to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in its shared quest to improve human health.”

The Jackson Laboratory

“We collaborate across disciplines + engage communities for justice-forward responses to the global climate crisis.”

Creative Climate Lab

“Politecnico di Milano is a public scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers. The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer.”

Politecnico di Milano

“Politecnico di Torino is a “Research University” that is particularly focused on the balanced development of fundamental and applied research. The departments coordinate research in four macro- areas: Industrial Engineering; Information Technologies; Management and Mathematics for Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Design. “

Politecnico di Torino

“DensityDesign is a research lab at the Design Department in Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Our research revolves around information visualization, tackling the design challenges arising from the visual exploration and communication of social and cultural phenomena.”

Density Design Lab

“Loud Numbers is a data sonification podcast, created by Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick. Data sonification is the process of turning data into sound, and we take it a step further by turning those sounds into music. In each episode, we introduce a data story, explain how we sonified it, and then play the sonification we’ve created.”

Loud Numbers

“Banca Intesa is a part of the big international group Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the leading Euro zone banking groups, and the strongest one in Italy. Following its parent company’s structure, Banca Intesa applies the division business model, implying organizational divisions according to client type, with centralized business support services.”

Banca Intesa

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