Resume

• 2011

  HUMlab

  Umeå University

  ReD Associates

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Razorfish

  Pasadena

  CA

  Working with 13 master's students over two years as a thesis advisor with a focus on concept

  research

  theory and writing. Co-teaching integrated class on writing and research for thesis year master's students.

  Adjunct faculty & thesis writing advisor

  Graduate Media Design Program

  Art Center College of Design

  Umea

  Sweden

  Visiting researcher at the HUMLab

  with a focus on architecture

  data

  media and digital humanities. I've been there in 2011 for a month

  2012 for 2 months and for parts of summer 2013 & 2014.

  Visiting researcher

  HUMlab

  Umeå University

  Greater Pittsburgh Area

  I research the relationship of interaction design and AI. I teach at all levels of the School of Design

  from undergraduate courses and studios

  to master's seminars and service design classes

  to doctoral seminars. I'm especially interested in the impact of artificial intelligence on design and architecture

  today and in the past. I advise undergraduate capstone

  master's and doctoral students in the School of Design and the School of Architecture. I am also affiliate faculty with the School of Architecture & the Block Center for Technology & Society.

  Associate Professor

  School of Design

  Carnegie Mellon University

  I held a tenure-track position in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication

  where I focused on digital media studies

  data and data visualization

  and digital history. I taught a 400-student Introduction to Mass Communication class and smaller seminars and courses in digital studies and won awards and a fellowship for my teaching.\n\nI was affiliated with the School of Library & Information Studies

  the Art Department

  the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies

  and the UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning

  and was a Discovery Fellow with the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery.

  Assistant Professor

  School of Journalism & Mass Communication

  Madison

  Wisconsin Area

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Greater Pittsburgh Area

  Endowed professorship at Carnegie Mellon supporting research in ethics

  AI

  and computation

  K&L Gates Associate Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Ivrea

  Italy

  Taught and developed curriculum in interaction design

  social computing

  and service design

  and research and writing skills. Headed the Connected Communities research area. Mentored and advised thesis projects

  and coordinated overall thesis writing process. Conducted and led academic and design research in social computing and user-centered design. Directed distinguished lecturer series. Led intensive workshops with Telecom Italia

  Orange

  and on mobile technology and social services.

  Associate Professor of Connected Communities

  Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

  With Thomas Küber (2016–17) and Rodrigo Vera (2017–18)

  chairing the Interaction Awards for IXDA 2017 in New York and 2018 in Lyon

  France.

  IxDA

  ReD Associates

  Copenhagen Area

  Denmark

  Strategic

  qualitative research involving ethnographic methods and scenario development on future of friendship in an age of social networking

  with interviews and research in China

  and on future of publishing for another client.

  Strategist/design researcher

• 2008.

  Bangalore

  India

  Created

  led and conducted ethnographic study on mobile phone sharing in south India’s lower and middle classes. Two chapters resulted: \n-- “Beyond the Personal and Private: Modes of Mobile Phone Sharing in India

  ” Molly Steenson and Jonathan Donner. In The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices (Piscataway

  NJ: Transaction)

  2008.\n\n-- “Express Yourself” and ”Stay Together”: The Middle‐Class Indian Family

  ” Jonathan Donner

  Nimmi Rangaswamy Molly Wright Steenson and Carolyn Wei

  Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies (Cambridge

  MA: MIT Press)

  Graduate research intern

  Microsoft Research India

  San Francisco

  CA

  Managed projects for Genentech

  in client-facing role

  directed 17 person user experience and technology team.

  Project manager

  Razorfish

  Pittsburgh

  Pennsylvania

  Senior Associate Dean for Research

  College of Fine Arts

  Carnegie Mellon University

• 2007

  PhD

  Architecture

  Fellow

  Center for Architecture

  Urbanism & Infrastructure (CAUI)

  2009-2012

  Princeton University

  MA

  Architecture

• 2005

  French

  Dutch

  Italian

  English

  German

  With Honors and Distinction

  BA

  Attended UW-Madison from 1990–94. Graduated with honors and distinction; degree awarded in 2003. (I handed in my undergraduate honors thesis many years late.) Completed requirements for a French major across U of MN and UW-Madison.

  German Literature

  Writer

  A/V Club

  The Onion\nAssociate Entertainment Editor

  The Badger Herald

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  School of Architecture: Masters of Environmental Design

  The Master of Environmental Design program is Yale's architectural history and theory degree.

  Architectural theory

  history and criticism

  Yale University

• 1996

  Girlwonder Productions

  IxDA

  Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

  Art Center College of Design

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Microsoft Research India

  Leading research

  strategy

  interaction and experience design

  writing and editorial

  social computing and information architecture projects for clients including:\n\n* Institute for the Future (future-oriented strategy and research for governmental client)\n* iconmobile (future-oriented user research for technology client)\n* Behavior Design (fashion

  sports and educational clients)\n* Crimson (Verizon: information architecture

  content strategy

  strategic product development) \n* Fjord \n* Blast Radius (City of Amsterdam and De Waag Society)\n* Six Apart\n* Location Labs (Family Finder application)\n* Method

  Girlwonder Productions

• Curating

  Ethnography

  Design Education

  Information Architecture

  Architectural History

  Design History

  Innovation Consulting

  Design Strategy

  Service Design

  Digital Strategy

  Experience Design

  History

  User Experience

  Content Strategy

  Design Research

  Mobile Strategy

  Architecture

  Qualitative Research

  Interaction Design

  Urban Studies

  Architectural Intelligence: How Designers

  Tinkerers

  and Architects Designed the Digital Landscape

  Architecting Interactivity examines the people

  projects

  and collaborations emerging from architecture and computational practices such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics

  and argues that they poured the foundations for contemporary design. It uses in-depth case studies on Christopher Alexander

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Cedric Price

  and Nicholas Negroponte to tell this story of how AI

  cybernetics

  and architecture formed the basis for information architecture

  interaction design

  and UX.

  Architectural Intelligence: How Designers

  Tinkerers

  and Architects Designed the Digital Landscape

  The uptake of mobile telephony in the developing world has been remarkable. I track the research literature on the topic

  and contribute to it when possible. I am currently exploring \"mobile centric\" internet use among low-income communities in urban South Africa.

  Gary Marsden

  Molly