723 Transdisciplinary Strategy & Design with Despina Papadopoulos @ Principled Design

<p>I am a designer and researcher working at the intersection of embodied sensing systems and emerging materials and their relationship to meaning-making. I have engineered novel solutions for soft-to-hard interfaces, pioneered applications and processes for a stack of smart polymer technologies, and developed award-winning wearable environments that explore intimacy, ambiguity and markers of aliveness in encounters with technological systems.</p> <p>I have collaborated and developed projects with Lubrizol, Nivea, Ralph Lauren, Bless, and with engineers, fashion designers, quantum physicists, weavers, molecular engineers, and philosophers. I consult C-suite executives on innovation methodologies, business opportunities in emerging technologies, and new product introduction roadmaps.</p> <p>I have been teaching at <a href="https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program</a> for the past 18 years, where I developed the course and upcoming book T<em>he Softness of Things: Technology in Space and Form</em> and I am founding faculty at <a href="https://dsi.sva.edu/faculty/despina-papadopoulos/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SVA’s MFA on Design for Social Innovation</a>.</p> <p>I am currently working on <em>The Unruliness of Matter</em>, turning the conceptual and the abstract into the tangible and sensory, as part of my practice-based research Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art, on a TECHNE Fellowship from the National Productivity and Innovation Fund, UK.</p> <p><a href="http://principled-design.com/" target="_blank">principled-design.com</a></p> <p><a href="http://pixelpeppy.com/" target="_blank">pixelpeppy.com</a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support</a>