New Faculty - College of Design
William Heywood
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Visual Communication Design
Dr. Heywood received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Fielding Institute. His training has been in Reichian Bodywork, Craniosacral Therapy, Educational Kinesiology, Advanced Mind Body Integration, and Gestalt and Jungian Depth Psychology. He joins the faculty full-time after 20 years as a faculty associate. He is co-founder and president of the consulting firm Wisdom of the Heart, which focuses on human dynamics in educational institutions, corporations, family owned businesses and individuals. Dr. Heywood's research and practice explores the role of team building, creative collaboration and mindfulness as they relate to design education and critical visual thinking.
Aisling Kelliher
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design and Arts, Media and Engineering
Dr. Kelliher received a B.A. in communications studies from Dublin City University in 1996, and a M.S. in multimedia systems from Trinity College, Dublin in 1998. Dr. Kelliher also received a M.S. in media arts and sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab in 2001, and defended her Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in September, 2006. Dr. Kelliher's work is engaged with revealing the power of the storytelling act as an expressive, reflective and cathartic experience, as it is through this communicative process that we co me to understand ourselves as individual and social beings. As part of this investigation, she develops everyday software applications for creating and sharing rich- me dia story compositions.
Martin Moeck
Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
Dr. Moeck received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Stuttgart, in Germany , and his M.S. in architectural engineering in 1990 from the University of Kansas, in Laurence, KS . His research interests are in the areas of computer aided lighting design, building energy simulation, daylighting, and lighting for green buildings. As part of two research contracts administered by the Lighting Research Center, he focused on the energy optimization of toplighting and sidelighting strategies for green buildings. Sponsored through the MASCARO Sustainability Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Moeck is collaborating with a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering on the development of LED luminaires for general illumination. Moeck performed industry-supported research in daylight systems analysis for museums with multimedia displays and public computing spaces in New York City and Washington, D.C., and served as a lighting and display consultant for two major automotive companies. Dr. Moeck developed various teaching and research laboratories, including research/instructional laboratory facilities for flexible light installation using plug-and-play electrical connectors, digital dimming ballasts and relay switches, and new digital light controls (DALI). This lighting lab contains remote digital addressable lighting control via any web browser from anywhere in the world, including web cam access, and was on display at the LightFair 2004 in Las Vegas. He won the Outstanding Young Contributor Award, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), presented at the IBPSA conference "Building Simulation '99” in Kyoto, Japan.
John Takamura
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design
Bringing over 15 years of industrial design practice experience, John Takamura has been instrumental in implementing brand and product development programs in both Asia and North America. Early in his career, Mr. Takamura was hired by ODS, an international market research and design consultancy, and served as the Design Director for their Industrial Design Division under the guidance of international designers Luigi Colani (DE), Hans Muth (DE), and Barry Weaver (UK). Mr. Takamura later joined Sharp Corporations elite advanced design team in Tokyo where he helped to develop the Sharp ViewCam concept that would later become a standard video camera configuration in the global market. Upon returning to the US he established Takamura Design, a transdisciplinary design office, servicing clients in Asia and the U.S. from the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1997 he joined Fitch Inc. to establish and manage the Fitch office in Japan . Serving as Vice President of the Japan office, Mr. Takamura was involved as the Design Director, Project Manager, and Account Manager for numerous Japanese companies in the electronics, consumer goods, service industries, and served as manager of the Fitch Japan-based innovation lab called the MadLab. Mr. Takamura returned to the U.S in 2001 as Vice President and Director of Client Services for product design at the Fitch San Francisco office. He was responsible for the development and management of all Japanese accounts, and some key accounts within the U.S. After leaving Fitch Inc. Mr. Takamura was hired to develop and lead a transdisciplinary design team at X Product Development, a division of Xyron Inc. in Scottsdale Arizona . His responsibilities involved the management of the entire creative team in both industrial design and visual communications. With a major in industrial design, Mr. Takamura received his BA in design from the University of California , Los Angeles and furthered his studies at Art Center Pasadena. He received his MSD degree in Human Factors in industrial design from Arizona State University in 2005.
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