founder & co-director of CriticalCorps
founder & co-director of CriticalCorps
Prasad Boradkar is an assistant professor in the School of Design at Arizona State University in Tempe . He holds degrees in industrial design and mechanical engineering, and has held positions at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands as well as ITT Technical Institute in California . At ASU, Prasad teaches studio, design history, and materials & processes at the undergraduate level, and a graduate course on design and cultural studies. The central objective of his research activities is to perform critical cultural analyses of objects, thereby expanding their accepted meanings in industrial design discourse. He is the Vice-Chair of the Arizona Chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Prasad is currently working on a book titled Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects, to be published by Berg Press in the UK in 2007.
Phone: (480) 965-8685
Email: Prasad.Boradkar@asu.edu
Renata Hejduk, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Arizona State University . She serves on the Board of Directors of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Previous to her academic career she was the Assistant Curator of European and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; the Curatorial Associate for the Photograph Collection Harvard University Art Museums, The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, and a Curatorial Assitant an the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. Her research is focused on European and American architecture and urbanism from around 1960 to the present and its development relative to culture and philosophy. Her forthcoming book Saved: The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture, co-edited with Jim Williamson, is to be published by Monacelli Press , NY.
Phone: (480) 965-8250
Email: Renata.Hejduk@asu.edu
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