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Prof. Emily Smith
Subject area: Media and Design
Consultation by: appointment
Websites: Emily Smith Profile
Professor Smith has been with the University of Europe for Applied Sciences since 2011. She served as Vice Dean of the Art & Design faculty and is currently Professor for New Media Design. Professor Smith's areas of expertise are Exhibition Design, Spatial Design, Way-finding, Material Culture, Design Curation, Experimental Design, Visual Anthropology, and Museology. Additional expertise includes Ethics, Social Justice, Decolonization, and Ethnographic Research Method.
- 2021–present Professor for New Media Design (MA) at UE Art & Design
- 2017–2019 Vice Dean, Faculty of Art & Design
- 2016–2021 Program Director for Communication Design (BA) at UE Art & Design
- since 2016 Professor for Communication Design (BA) at UE Art & Design
- 2009–2016 Lecturer at btk
- 2010–2012 MA Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin
- 1998–2000 BFA Graphic Design & Movement–Based Design at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA
- 1987–1991 BA Latin American Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA
- 1969 born in Salt Lake City, UT
- 2024-present Interpretive and Narrative Consultant at Ralph Appelbaum Associates (USA/DE)
- 2020-2024 Founder of cross-disciplinary creative communities and initiatives: New Logomotion Lab at K77, the Somatic School of Design Research (In-Figuring-Out), the A—Z Collective, the online performance series Present!, and the collective project space AROOO (a room of one’s own).
- 2020 Artist-in-residence, Museum Susch (CH)
- 2019 Essay “A Three-Hour Tour: Towards a Working Methodology for Responsive Curating” in Curating After the Global: Roadmaps for the Present (MIT Press 2019)
- 2018 Artistic Direction for the Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 2018: Ministry of Graphic Design, Sharjah (UAE)
- 2014 Art direction for Zeiss Museum of Optics (with Bertron Schwarz Frey)
- 2013 Senior curator of ‘RE: Critical Dialogue on Photography, Film and Documentary Arts
- 2006–2010 Selected exhibition design for Museum für Naturkunde, Neues Museum and Deutsches Technikmuseum (with Rimini Berlin), Otto Bock Science Center Berlin (with ART&COM) and the 2009 CEBIT Stand Deutsche Telekom, Concept and Motion Design (with q-bus Mediatektur)
- 2001–2005 Designer at Leonardi & Wollein/Wollein & Co., Berlin