Teaching

Faculty positions

2010 – present

Parsons The New School for Design
Director, Fashionable Technology Lab
Assistant Professor of Fashionable Technology
Courses: Fashionable Technology: The Amplifiers of Fantasy (Spring 2011), Fashionable Technology: Performance (Fall 2011), The Future of Urban Fashion (Fall 2011), Fashionable Technology: Materials (Spring 2012), Applied Research: Wearable/Telepresent/Sensory (Spring 2012)
Workshops: Materials Explorations at ENSAD in Paris (May 2011) and Swedish School of Textiles in Boras, Sweden (May 2011)
Projects: Painted Love for BMW Guggenheim Lab New York (Fall 2011), Amplification of Energy (Spring, Fall 2011)
New York, USA

2008 – 2010

Academy of Fine Arts
Department: Fashion & Styles
Adjunct Faculty
Courses: Project Science Fashion, Science Fashion Communication as Blog
Vienna, Austria

2005 – present

University of Arts and Industrial Design
Department: Interface Cultures, Course: Fashionable Technology
Adjunct Faculty
Linz, Austria

2008 – 2009

University of Arts and Industrial Design
Department: Fashion (at the Vienna Fashion School Hetzendorf), Courses: Fashion Marketing, Fashion Presentation
Adjunct Faculty
Vienna, Austria

2001 – 2010

Parsons The New School for Design
Department: Design & Technology and Parsons Design Lab, Course: Fashionable Technology
Adjunct Professor, Guest Critic for various Thesis Studios
New York, USA

2003 – 2007

Academy of Arts
Department: Textiles, Course: Fashionable Technology
Academic consultant for Wearable Technologies, Lecturer
Tallinn, Estonia

2003 – 2004

Parsons The New School For Design
School of Fashion, Course: The Epidermis as Metaphor
Thesis advisor for Natalia Allen, Student of the Year 2004
New York, USA

Hyperwerk
Course: Fashionable Technology
Thesis advisor for Celine Studer, Thesis: Fashionation
Basel, Switzerland

2002

Parsons The New School for Design
Department: Parsons Design Lab, Course: Networked Spaces
New York, USA

1999 – 2004

New School University
Department: Graduate Media Studies
New York, USA

1996 – 2002

New School University
Department: Computer Instruction Center
Development of the Digital Project Management Certificate 2000 – 2001
New York, USA

Curriculum development

2010

Parsons The New School for Design
Development of a new program: MFA in Fashionable Technology and the Fashionable Technology Lab
New York, USA

2008

University of Fine Arts
Department: Fashion & Styles, development of classes focusing on soft computation & technology
Vienna, Austria

2005

University of Arts and Industrial Design
Department: Interface Cultures, development of the course: Fashionable Technology projects
Linz, Austria

2001

Parsons The New School for Design
Department: Design & Technology, development of the Fashionable Technology focus
New York, USA

2000

New School University
Department: Computer Instruction Center, development of the Digital Project Management Certificate
New York, USA

1999

Joanneum Informations Design
Member of the curriculum development team
Graz, Austria

Lectures & workshops

2010

New York University
Interactive Telecommunications Program, Guest lecture: Functional Aesthetics
New York, USA

2009

HGK Basel, Masterstudio Design
Workshop: Fashionable Technology
Basel, Switzerland

2008

New York University, Skirball New Media Center
Lecture: Fashionable Technology
New York, USA

Parsons The New School for Design, School of Fashion
Lecture: Fashionable Technology
New York, USA

HGK Basel, Masterstudio Design
Workshop: Fashionable Technology
Basel, Switzerland

Swedish School of Textiles
Workshop: Fashionable Technology
Boras, Sweden

2001

New York University
Interactive Telecommunications Program, Lecture: Pervasive Computing
New York, USA

2000

Rensseler Polytechnic Institute
Department of Arts of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Electronic Arts Performance Series
Troy, NY, USA