FACULTY IN DESIGNED OBJECTS
The Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago announces a full-time faculty position in Designed Objects, starting Fall 2009. Rank and salary are commensurate with experience, teaching, and current professional status.
The Designed Objects program focuses on the critical and creative re-thinking of the tools, furnishings, networks, and products that constitute everyday life. Borrowing from industrial design and disciplines such as systems design, furniture design, experience design, design and interaction design, Designed Objects envisions and seeks to produce designers as agentive, social citizens who choose “the object” as their primary means of reflecting and affecting culture. While concerned with professional competency within the realm of product design, the program also maintains a more critical and expansive understanding of the production and consumption of objects/products.
The School seeks experienced practitioners with a minimum of 5 years experience within the realm of designed objects. The successful candidate has a national/international visibility within design arenas with the ability to integrate theoretical, material, practical, and social issues into design studio pedagogy. The program is particularly, though not exclusively, interested in design candidates with deep knowledge in any of the following: design strategy/systems: responsible design; design futures (trends, branding, identity, entertainment); and/or innovation (materials, technology, interaction, engineering).
Responsibilities include teaching in graduate and undergraduate-level thematic design studios utilizing traditional and digital approaches to ideation and production; graduate seminars; and studios/seminars/labs in the candidate’s field of expertise.
The successful candidate must perform research related to professional practice, service for the department and the School, and other duties as designated by the department Chair. Relevant teaching, leadership and/or management experience is advantageous.
Questions regarding the School and its open positions, application procedures, or the search process may be directed to Shanna Linn, Director of Academic Administration in the Office of Deans, at slinn@saic.edu, or (312) 899-7472. Consult www.said.edu for information on the School and its programs, or www.saic.edu/about/jobs/faculty for postings of open positions and application procedures.
About SAIC: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a leading professional school of art and design, is affiliated with the museum of the Art Institute of Chicago at the center of one of the country’s most exciting and diverse cultural communities. The School is comprised of 14 studio departments including a first year program, and 7 academic departments with an emphasis on transdisciplinary study. It offers 6 undergraduate degrees, and 14 graduate degrees as well as post-baccalaureate certificates and continuing studies programs. The School currently enrolls 3,000 FTE students and employs 150 full-time faculty, 550 adjunct and part-time faculty, and 300 staff.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is committed to creating a diverse community of faculty and students, and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered on the basis of their qualifications for the position without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or veteran status.