Friday Five With Ari Melenciano
Today Brooklyn-based creative technologist and researcher Ari Melenciano joins us for Friday Five!
Self-Portrait
Ari Melenciano is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist and researcher who is passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and the human experience. Currently, her research explores omni-specialization, multi-sensorial human-computer interactive technologies, experimental pedagogy and speculative design. (Consider our minds blown!)
Ari is the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution that fosters interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism. Ari briefly studied urban design and architecture at the Universitat de Barcelona while studying abroad in Spain for a year. She has a master?s from NYU?s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and is currently earning her masters degree in architecture from the Pratt Institute. Ari also teaches about design, technology and society at New York University and the Pratt Institute. Today Ari Melenciano joins us for Friday Five!
Photo: Mark Boucher
1. Tiles of Passeig de Gracia
Living in Barcelona for a year was one of the most artistically stimulating periods of my life. I felt like I was living in art, every day. The tiles of Passeig de Gracia are one of my favorite parts of the city. They were designed by Antonà Gaudi and they literally shimmer in the sunlight.
Photo: Daniel Boud
2. Solange’s Stage Design
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Self-Portrait
Ari Melenciano is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist and researcher who is passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and the human experience. Currently, her research explores omni-specialization, multi-sensorial human-computer interactive technologies, experimental pedagogy and speculative design. (Consider our minds blown!)
Ari is the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution that fosters interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism. Ari briefly studied urban design and architecture at the Universitat de Barcelona while studying abroad in Spain for a year. She has a master?s from NYU?s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and is currently earning her masters degree in architecture from the Pratt Institute. Ari also teaches about design, technology and society at New York University and the Pratt Institute. Today Ari Melenciano joins us for Friday Five!
Photo: Mark Boucher
1. Tiles of Passeig de Gracia
Living in Barcelona for a year was one of the most artistically stimulating periods of my life. I felt like I was living in art, every day. The tiles of Passeig de Gracia are one of my favorite parts of the city. They were designed by Antonà Gaudi and they literally shimmer in the sunlight.
Photo: Daniel Boud
2. Solange’s Stage Design
So...
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