Department of Design Tech
Top right: During the Fall 2022 Cornell Tech Open Studio, students Thanut Sakandaraseth (M.S. MDC '23), Kseniya Yerakhavets (M.Arch. '23), and Thomas Wallace '24 discuss their project, Automata Mangrove, with Jenny Sabin, Professor of Architecture and Chair of the multicollege Department of Design Tech. Bottom right: Xylo (2022) by Lucas Hitch (M.S. MDC '24), Ivania Rivera (M.S. MDC '24), and Ariana Rosario '24.
The new Department of Design Tech is a multicollege, transdisciplinary initiative pioneering innovation, research, and teaching on topics at the intersection of design and emerging technology that most greatly impact research, industry, and practice in a changing world.
Bridging expertise and catalyzing exploration, innovation, and collaboration in emerging areas, including design + interactions, design + materials, design + media, and design + environments, Design Tech is a generator of new modes, methods, and applications that redefine design practice and research.
Participating Cornell colleges: The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP), Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS), Cornell Engineering, Cornell Human Ecology (CHE), and Cornell Tech in New York City.
Highlights
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Living Structures Exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Design Tech Chair and Architecture Professor Jenny Sabin's studio is one of three practices contributing work exploring the use of biology and biochemistry as a basis for architecture.
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Posted 1 month ago
Two Assistant, Associate, or Full Professors in Design Technology & Engineering
As part of a unique Radical Collaboration hiring initiative, the new multicollege Department of Design Tech, together with the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Cornell University, invite applications for two full-time, assistant, associate, or full faculty positions in design technology & engineering beginning July 1, 2025.
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Posted 2 months ago
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Design & Technology at Cornell Tech
As part of a unique Radical Collaboration hiring initiative, the multicollege Department of Design Tech at Cornell University invites applications for one or more full-time, open-rank tenure-track faculty positions in design and technology beginning July 1, 2025.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Introducing the Department of Design Tech at Cornell University
The new Department of Design Tech at Cornell University is a multicollege, transdisciplinary initiative pioneering innovation, research, and teaching on topics at the intersection of design and emerging technology that most greatly impact research, industry, and practice in a changing world.
Degree Program
Master of Science, Design Technology (M.S. DT)
A two-year research and project degree offered jointly by the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and Cornell Tech.
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Monday, December 2, 2024
Smallest Walking Robot Makes Microscale Measurements
Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and Design Tech faculty Itai Cohen is among the Cornell researchers who have created what may be the world's smallest walking robot.
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Monday, September 16, 2024
Mixing Physical, Virtual Worlds to Drive Home Climate Urgency
A research group led by Wendy Ju, associate professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, created an extended reality system designed to engage communities in new ways.
