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Salt Lake, UT - USA

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The Division of MultiDisciplinary Design MDD is now accepting applications for a fulltime assistant or associate professor in design with a focus on product/interactive/experience / industrial or systems design. This is a fulltime 9/12 faculty position. The position will commence in July 2025. Housed within the College of Architecture Planning MDD promotes design education across disciplines through an innovative curriculum and broad research activities. With 3 areas of curriculum focus across digital physical and exploratory design areas we are a community of academics professionals and students engaging in design to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. Students in the program move through a series of experiences exposing them to new technologies grounded research making ethics leadership skills entrepreneurship and systems thinking. Faculty collaborate across campus and around the world with funded projects resulting in spatial design interventions installations exhibitions systems policies programs and scholarly outputs that address multiple scales and environmental and social issues. Collectively we design products experiences and the relationships around them intelligently tackling complex social and environmental problems by creating innovative design solutions see . We currently offer a Bachelor of Science in Design with a sequential studio practice component; our curriculum is seeking to expand to offer emphases in design studies. The successful candidate will join a growing community of design educators creative practitioners and researchers. We invite applicants who are passionate about supporting students to grow as future leaders and innovators strategists makers researchers problem solvers communicators in cultural institutions education the public and private sectors. University level teaching and/or research experience is essential. We are excited to work with faculty who bring a robust skill set in design processes as well as the vision to innovate with new tools and methods. We are also seeking a colleague who is active in research with the potential to develop an internationally recognized research or practice area. Minimum qualifications: A terminal degree or its equivalent in physical or digital product design or a related field Excellent communication skills that facilitate discussions and interactions beyond disciplinary boundaries Ability to work with a range of design tools and processes including digital tools and / or physical modeling and visualization Demonstrated record of design experience with examples of innovative and ethical product development Demonstrated record of teaching courses related to product design and innovation to students across year levels Experience practicing design management and strategy for example leadership of multidisciplinary project teams (and ability to teach this) Preferred qualifications: Ability to span across disciplinary boundaries to see the relationship between making theory history sustainability and the nonhuman world Ability to explore and integrate innovative technologies and alternative ways of making and crafting Advanced degree (doctorate) Evidence of recognition of teaching and design achievements (eg awards) Experience of curriculum design assessment and review


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