carla is the creator and head of the 4D Design Program at Cranbrook AcADEMY Of Art
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Founding Head of 4D Design, September 2018-Present
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, New York, NY, Assistant Professor of Product Design, August 2017-August 2018
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA, Lecturer, January 2013-June 2017
Co-founder of the xLab, a Comcast-sponsored exploration of content-coupled connected products
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY, Adjunct, July 2009-August 2014
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA, Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2007-June 2008
Team member for Simon, humanoid human-robot interaction project
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Savannah, GA, Professor of Interactive Design, September 2002-June 2007
Co-wrote the curriculum for the new Interactive Design Department in 2002
Established the College’s first Physical Computing course to teach creative technology
Guided student teams on corporate sponsored projects from the Gulfstream Corporation
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, New York, NY, Adjunct, May 2002-July 2002
COURSES TAUGHT
Created course Designing Smart Objects, launching 2018-19
PGIN5010 Design Semantics
PGIN5020 Advanced Modeling Methods
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
IPD521 Smart Objects for Play and Learning
IPD528 Design of Contemporary Products: Smart Objects
IPD551 & IPD552 Integrated Product Design Studio (Studio Design Process and Problem Framing)
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS
Smart Objects (jointly listed MFA IxD and Product Design)
The Practice of Interaction Design, Summer intensive
Fundamentals of Interaction Design
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
IDUS 8900 Information and Interface Design
IDUS 8900 Design Aesthetics
IDUS7000 Graduate Thesis Studio I & II
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
ITGM440 Physical Computing
ITGM709 Visual Information and Interface Design
ITGM 403 Information and Interfaces
ITGM 130 Digital Design Aesthetics
ITGM715 Interactive Web Design
SNDS355 Interactive Sound for the Web
ITGM303 Programming for Interactivity
ITGM490 Portfolio and Post Production
ITGM355 Animation for the Web
ITGM 260 Interactive Design
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL
PGTE5023 Programming for Interactive Design
ADDITIONAL TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• Developed and successfully passed the curriculum for the Georgia Tech International Plan for Industrial Design Majors
• Established the first Physical Computing course and lab to teach creative technology at the Savannah College of Art and Design
• Guided student teams on corporate sponsored projects with the Gulfstream Corporation surrounding passenger in-cabin interface solutions.
• Developed, wrote and taught eLearning versions of SCAD’s ITGM709 and ITGM715, described above.
• Co-wrote the entire curriculum for the new Interactive Design Department at Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002