Position ID: | Cornell-HCD-ASSTPROFNIH [#25317] |
Position Title: | Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Human Centered Design |
Position Type: | Tenured/Tenure-track faculty |
Position Location: | Ithaca, New York 14850, United States [map] ![]() |
Subject Areas: | Fashion Design Design / Human-centered systems, Interior Design Health Equity |
Starting Date: | 2024/07/01 |
Salary Range: | $76,200 to $211,000 |
Appl Deadline: | none (posted 2023/08/15, updated 2023/08/11) |
Position Description: |
Assistant Professor,
Tenure-Track Department of Human
Centered Design Cornell University The Department of Human Centered Design brings multidisciplinary perspectives together to improve human wellbeing through design. Through transdisciplinary thinking and expertise, we bring arts and design, material and social sciences, to innovate, investigate, and address real-world challenges by using analog and digital knowledge, tools, rigorous research methods, and creative processes. Our faculty includes anthropologists, engineers, psychologists, material scientists, geographers, public health and experts in apparel, graphic, interior, industrial design and architecture. We work together and collaborate externally with colleagues from across the university, as well as industry and non-profit community partners, to conduct research and enhance students’ learning. Using state-of-the-art lab and studio spaces, we conceptualize, prototype, and evaluate design across the range of clothing, products, buildings, and neighborhoods spaces to enhance human potential, health equity, social and environmental justice, sustainability, and community flourishing (https://www.human.cornell.edu/hcd).
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