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Assistant Professor - Design

Northeastern University

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Posted:

October 23, 2019

Location:

Boston, Massachusetts

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Academic/Faculty, Other - Academic/Faculty

Assistant Professor - Design

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and a world leader in experiential learning. The same commitment to connecting with the world drives our use-inspired research enterprise. The university offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Our campuses in Charlotte, N.C., San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto are regional platforms for undergraduate and graduate learning and collaborative research. Northeastern pursues advanced research in security and materials at the Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts, and in coastal sustainability at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts.

About the Opportunity:
With signature graduate programs in Information Design and Data Visualization as well as Experience Design, the Department of Art + Design and the College of Arts, Media and Design are now working to establish joint research and programs with Northeastern's Institute of Network Science.Data Visualization is also a key aspect of the expansion into the Northeastern's growing global network, looking to launch programs at the University's new campuses in Vancouver, London, Seattle, and Toronto.The work of designing experiences based on data-driven technologies will allow both the Department and the College to expand on their profile and build solid reputations and programs in this key area of strategic focus. The successful candidate will contribute to and collaborate with faculty of ourMFA and MS programs in Information Design + Visualization and Experience Design and our planned PhD in Interdisciplinary Design and Media. These degrees are built upon well-established undergraduate theory and practice programs with an emphasis on bringing innovative and engaging works of art, media and design into the public sphere. We also offerBFAdegrees in Design, Media Art, and Game Design, as well as coordinated degrees with other Colleges at Northeastern such as the D'Amore McKim School of Business and the Khoury College of Computer Science.

The Department of Art + Design has three distinct advantages: (I) Our diversified faculty conducts strong courses of study in a rich spectrum of practices: studio art, art history and critical studies in contemporary art and emerging media; graphic, information, interaction and experience design; digital arts, animation, game theory and design, photography, film, video, and interactive media. (II) We are located within a major private global research university and a leader in worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement and interdisciplinary research and our College has a unique combination of disciplines, including Architecture, Art + Design, Game Design, Communication Studies, Journalism, Media and Screen Studies, Music, and Theatre. (III) We are in Boston, a thriving urban center of culture, education, research and innovation with extensive global connections. See: www.northeastern.edu/camd.

Northeastern University is a private R1 university. The University is renowned for its interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurial spirit, experiential learning, and global connectedness. Northeastern has recently revealed a strategic plan to guide the University's course for the next ten years. See: http://www.northeastern.edu/academic-plan/.

Responsibilities:
The Department of Art + Design in the College of Arts, Media and Design invites applications and nominations for an appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Center for Design and the Center for the Arts.

With data and information becoming powerful, pervasive, and controversial, our department values accomplished designers and researchers deeply committed to creating meaningful, data-oriented, and human-driven experiences and services that balance the opportunities and the threats inherent to data processes and governance. The capacity to master data transformations playing with different methods and languages across multiple disciplines - together with the elaboration of a broader framework to advance the field of design research and scholarship broadly - are also required.

The ideal candidate is able to face complex and ill-defined problems, understand the dynamics of controversial socio-technical issues, and follow an integrative and holistic approach to design. The applicants should embrace creative research questions of how technologically mediated action is lived, felt, and valued by people with manifold intentions in everyday situations, and have perspectives on human experience as a process of making sense of the world, participating in culture, and engaging with community. In this position professors are expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Qualifications:
Candidates must have a PhD, MDes/MFA, or equivalent terminal degree by the start date in visual, graphic, interior, interactive, experience or information design, architecture, digital arts and media, or related fields; have expertise in one or more areas of design practice; be prepared to engage in research with existing university and college strategic areas such as (but not limited to): computer science, health and social sciences, cyber security, robotics; and be eager to collaborate with faculty across other disciplines of our College and University. Candidates will be considered from a variety of design fields, including but not limited to graphic design, interaction design, service design, experience design, product design, exhibition design, interactive media arts and all related fields that ensure the capacity to transform data into meaningful experiences. Candidates must have a well-developed research agenda that will inform and advance current trends in the field through creative production, experimentation, collaboration, exhibition and publication. Evidence of a high level of skill and accomplishment across media, provocative meaning making, and a sophisticated aesthetic sensibility is expected.

Successful candidates will have or show potential for having a national and international record of excellence in creative practice, innovative research, substantive scholarship and effective teaching. All candidates should have a strong interest in collaborative work as well as experience in, or a commitment to, working with diverse student populations in a culturally diverse work and educational environment.

Salary Grade:
FAC

Additional Information:

All applications must be submitted electronically at https://careers.hrm.northeastern.edu. Please include a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a research statement which includes a link to a portfolio of research and professional outcomes, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and contact information for at least three references who may be contacted at a later date. Inquiries may be directed to Professor Paolo Ciuccarelli, chair of the search committee, p.ciuccarelli@northeastern.edu.

Please do not submit additional materials until/unless requested. Applications received on or before November 25, 2019 will be guaranteed full review and consideration. This position will remain open until filled. Preferred start date is for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University, and an ADVANCE institution. Candidates should have experience in, or a commitment to, working with diverse student populations in a culturally diverse work and educational environment. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Northeastern University offers benefits coverage to the domestic partners of benefits-eligible faculty and staff. Northeastern University is an E-Verify employer. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

To apply, visit https://careers.pageuppeople.com/879/cw/en-us/job/501974

Internal Number: 1677783

About Northeastern University

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern is a leader in worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. Our broad mix of experience-based education programs?our signature cooperative education program, as well as student research, service learning, and global learning?build the connections that enable students to transform their lives. The University offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

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