Carla Y. Diana

Female, 51 years old

Carla Diana tries to live as close to the future as humanly possible. As Associate Director of Interaction at Smart Design, her projects include domestic robots, mobile devices and sentient kitchen appliances. In addition, Carla maintains an independent practice which includes a line of digitally distributed furniture, a series of sound-based sculptural installations and a selection of pieces that are best described as dynamic "virtual objects". Prior to Smart, Carla was a Senior Design Technologist at frog design, Creative Director at Planetii, Interface Guru at Sarkissian-Mason and a designer at Karim Rashid's studio. Carla holds an MFA in Design from Cranbrook and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Cooper Union. From 2002 to 2007 she was Professor of Interactive Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design and later joined the Industrial Design faculty at Georgia Tech . She has written for several publications including Interactions, Core77, The AIGA Journal, and Good Housekeeping. In 2001 Carla was named an Art Director's Club "Young Gun". Recent awards include winning a Museum of Fine Arts Houston Brown Foundation Fellowship, several ADC Distinctive Merit Awards, PRINT Interaction 2004 Award, and the Flash Forward Film Festival 2004 Experimental Award. http://www.carladiana.com http://www.repercussion.org Specialties Tangible interaction, Interaction design, industrial design, convergent technologies, user interface, device prototyping, design theory, interactive installations, material culture, aesthetics, hacking, making, tinkering read more ...
  • industrial design
  • Cranbrook Academy Of Art
  • Pratt Institute
  • The Cooper Union
  • Instructor
  • Staff Engineer
  • Associate Director
  • Interaction Design At Smart Design

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