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.
Directors & Core Faculty Members
Kristian Kloeckl
Associate Professor
Architecture, Art + Design
Kristian Kloeckl is Associate Professor at Northeastern University in the Department of Art + Design and the School of Architecture. He holds a PhD in Product and Communication Design, and a Master degree in Industrial Design.
Staff & Co-op Students
- Julie Farkas, Communications Specialist
- Aashita Jain, Design Research and Communications Co-op
Affiliate Members
- Dietmar Offenhuber, Associate Professor, Department Chair of Art + Design
- Sara Lenzi, TU Delft for the Data Sonification Archive
- Sara Colombo, TU Einhdoven for the Design for Emergency Project
- Paul Kahn for the COVIC Archive
- Hugh Dubberly for the COVIC Archive and Metadesign Series + drs-festival-of-emergence/
- Paul Pangaro for the Metadesign Series + drs-festival-of-emergence/
- Remy Bourganel for the Metadesign Series + drs-festival-of-emergence/
- Silvia Barbero for the Metadesign Series + drs-festival-of-emergence/
- Nathan Felde for the Metadesign Series + drs-festival-of-emergence/
- Laura Forlano, Professor
- Sofie Hodara, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Todd Linkner, Assistant Teaching Professor