MDEF 2018-2019

Master in Design for Emergent Futures

Faculty

Directors:

Tomas Diez, Director – Design Studio leader – urban design and digital fabrication

Oscar Tomico, Co-director – Design Studio leader – design engineering and integrated products

Faculty:

  • Guillem Camprodon, Computer Science, Tools and Platforms (Fab Lab BCN)
  • Victor Barberán, Computer Science, Tools and Platforms (Fab Lab BCN)
  • Ingi Freyr Guðjónsson, Product Design and Digital Fabrication (Fab Lab BCN)
  • Anastasia Pistofidou, Materials and Embedded Technologies (Textile Lab at Fab Lab BCN)
  • Jonathan Minchin, Design and Sustainability (Fab Lab BCN)
  • Nuria Conde Pueyo, Synthetic and Computational Biology (Universitat Pompeu Fabra at PRBB)
  • Ramon Sangüesa, Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning (Elisava)
  • Lucas Peña, Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Elisabet Roselló Román, Strategic Innovation
  • Santi Fuentemilla, Digital Fabrication (Fab Academy at Fab Lab BCN)
  • Xavier Domínguez, Digital Fabrication (Fab Academy at Fab Lab BCN)
  • Eduardo Chamorro, Digital Fabrication (Fab Academy at Fab Lab BCN)
  • Mariana Quintero, Media Arts, Media Studies, Digital Literacy & Embodied Cognition
  • Thomas Duggan, Materials and generative design (Thomas Duggan Studio)
  • Mara Balestrini, New business models, user engagement, HCI (Ideas for Change)
  • Jose Luis de Vicente, Digital Culture, Innovation and New Media Art (Sonar+D)
  • Ron Wakkary, Kristina Andersen, Angella Mackey, David McCallum, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Wearables, Fashion, Media Art and Design Research (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  • Mercé Rua, Markel Cormenzana, Transition Design (Holon)
  • Andrés Colmenares, Speculative Research, Internet Post-technological Future (IAM)

Special Faculty & Advisors:

  • Neil Gershenfeld, Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT
  • Indy Johar, Dark Matter Labs
  • Primavera de Filippi, CRNS – France
  • James Tooze, Royal College of Arts and Design
  • Liz Corbin, Institute of Making, UCL
  • Heather Corcoran, Kickstarter
  • Usman Haque, Umbrellium
  • Mette Bak Andersen, Material Design (Material Design Lab at KEA)
  • Jordi Serra del Pino, Center for Postnormal Policy & Futures Studies
  • Saúl Baeza, DOES Work – Elisava
  • Efraín Foglia, guifi.net