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https://apply.interfolio.com/81891
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**Rank TBD, Experience Design/Interaction Design**
Arizona State University: Office of the University Provost Tempe: Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Location Tempe, AZ and ASU @ Mesa City Center
Description
The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University seeks to hire a faculty member in Experience Design/Interaction Design. This full-time, academic year appointment will begin August 2021 and will be a joint appointment between The Design School and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering. Appointment type and academic rank will be based on experience. The person hired for this position will be a leader in the development of new graduate curricula and research/creative programs in immersive experience design, extended realities practices, and design futures – the core components of the new ASU @ Mesa City Center facility, the emerging media technologies center opening in May 2022. This appointment will place at the top of our research agenda for designing the challenges and possibilities of human experience in the digital and computational futures. This position will enhance design and emerging media programs with a reinforced focus on what new digital technologies contribute to design methodology and vice versa.
About ASU
Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 80,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.
About the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is the largest comprehensive design and arts school in the country, built on a combination of disciplines unlike any other program nationally and located within a dynamic research university focused on transformative change. The Herberger Institute comprises the schools of Art; Arts, Media and Engineering; Music, Dance and Theatre; The Design School; The New American Film School, and the ASU Art Museum. The Herberger Institute is committed to redefining the 21st-century design and arts school through developing and scaling ideas to strengthen the role of designers and artists across all areas of society and culture and to increase the capacity of artists to make a difference in their communities. For more information on the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, visit herbergerinstitute.asu.edu.
About ASU @ Mesa City Center
Arizona State University has joined forces with one of the nation’s fastest growing cities to build a digital innovation center in Mesa. ASU @ Mesa City Center will open doors for students in emerging industries while helping transform Mesa’s downtown area into a bustling innovation district. Once fully developed, this 118,000 square-foot space will leverage its soundstages, audio laboratories, immersive laboratories, screening theaters, fabrication labs and design studios to encourage collaborations aimed at solving problems today and in the future—from visualizing new systems of urban transportation to testing new designs for hospital rooms. This world-class media production site will host hundreds of students making films, video games and other immersive media, as well as extended reality experiences of all kinds. Our inclusive programming will train some of the best storytellers and media entrepreneurs in the world, and the facility will also be an open and inviting place for the public as well as a source of inspiration, entertainment and education.
About The Design School
The Design School is the largest and most comprehensive school for design education, with programs ranked top 20 in the nation. From programs in architecture, landscape architecture and industrial design to interior design, urban design and visual communication, our students master the skills and research techniques needed for their future design professions through innovative, transdisciplinary methods. Our mission is to educate future designers to shape collaborations, synthesize complexity and catalyze transformation for public good. By engaging in dynamic and ongoing discourse about the future of design education, we aim to create a school that is more relevant, collaborative and equitable. For more information on The Design School, visit design.asu.edu.
About the School of Arts, Media and Engineering
The School of Arts, Media and Engineering offers a dynamic, cross-campus, student-customizable curriculum that prepares students with tangible skills in new media, AI, games, wearable technology and more. We believe the liberal arts degree for the 21st century needs to create citizens who are conversant with hard skills in emerging technology as well as with the soft skills that employers increasingly demand. The School of Arts, Media and Engineering trains students to be socially aware, critically thinking global citizens who strive to bring about positive change, in a society that will be increasingly shaped by incoming revolutions in emerging and new technologies. For more information on the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, visit artsmediaengineering.asu.edu.
This joint appointment between The Design School (tenure/academic/evaluation home) and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering will have duties primarily related to the ASU @ Mesa City Center facility and its programs, including the teaching and mentoring of graduate students, the development of curricula across and between disciplines (including online and hybrid deployment courses), and instruction of courses in immersive experience design, extended reality practices (VR/AR/MR), design futures, and related areas. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to maintain a program of research and/or creative activity commensurate with the rank and classification of the appointment in the fields of immersive experience design and/or extended reality (potentially including but not limited to: entertainment design, game design, simulation, speculative design, tangible interaction, experiential futures, information architecture, and/or experimental applications of XR technologies), including cultivation of transdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary collaborations, successful grant seeking/sponsored project development, and other collaborations with industry and community partners.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Candidates for this position must have demonstrated excellence in and commitment to teaching (need not be in a formal, higher education setting). They must demonstrate dedication to equity, diversity and inclusion. Candidates must have an established national/international profile in the fields of immersive experience design, extended realities, and/or design futures. They must also have completed a terminal (tenure/tenure-track appointment) or master’s (professor of practice appointment) degree in design, media arts, or related fields.
Desired Qualifications:
Highly-qualified candidates for this position will possess:
Detailed knowledge of established and experimental workflows for immersive experience design and/or extended reality practices and awareness of emerging developments in the field(s)
Demonstrated experience in developing and teaching curricula for experience design and/or emerging media
Clear and demonstrable awareness of and connections to the fields/industries of entertainment, technology, design, and/or the arts
Demonstrated experience in developing and/or leading transdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary programs, curricula, and/or initiatives
A record of research and publication in experience design and/or emerging media.
Experience teaching online or creating resources for education in an online or hybrid environment
Commitment to research, creative activity and/or scholarship that has public impact outside of the academy, including work related to community engagement, social justice, communication of science, cross-cultural communication or similar endeavors.
Demonstrated expertise in designing for user experiences/interaction in a variety of modes and technology platforms
Experience in applying the technologies and practices of immersive experience design to other applications and modes, including but not limited to: training/workforce development, crisis preparedness, healthcare/rehabilitation, immersive entertainment/performance, public policy, science communication.
Application Instructions
Please submit:
CV
A letter of interest
A statement addressing how your past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or racial justice will advance ASU’s commitment to inclusive excellence.
Portfolio of creative and/or research work submitted electronically, as a website or via a downloadable link or application or publication sample (file size limit 100mb).
The names and contact information of three professional references.
All applications must be submitted electronically via apply.interfolio.com/81891.
Application Deadline:
The application deadline is January 30, 2021. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled.
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G. Mauricio Mejía, MDes, PhD
Associate professor, The Design School
Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
Arizona State University
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