Dezeenjobs: the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is looking to fill a faculty position for their department of architecture, interior architecture and designed objects:
The Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago announces a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Designed Objects, starting Fall 2010. Rank and salary are commensurate with experience, teaching, and current professional status.
The School seeks a visionary practitioner with a minimum of 5 years experience within the field of product and/or interaction design. The program is particularly interested in designers with a strong background in one or more of the following emerging practice areas: systems design; social ecologies; experience design; advanced materials and technologies applications. The successful applicant’s research interests might include: human habitation, future wellbeing, critical design, biosciences, socio-cultural use-contexts, human computer interface, instantiated design thinking, material science, emerging technologies, and design activism/advocacy.
Candidates should have the ability to integrate theoretical, material, practical, and social issues into design studio pedagogy. Previous teaching, lecturing or workshop experience is especially advantageous.
Application Procedure: By Monday, January 11, 2010 send résumé, statement of design experience and research interests, a teaching/educational philosophy, portfolio documenting professional practice, contact information for three references, and a self-addressed, stamped postcard to confirm receipt of materials to:
Designed Objects Search/dz
SAIC, Deans Office
37 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago IL 60603
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Posted by Alex Torrance
