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Design & Technology
Interaction and Media Design
Parsons School of Design, The New School
11.2023 – Present
My pedagogical approach is centered on fostering embodied cognition experiences in educational settings, particularly in today’s society, where we often encounter fewer direct experiences but are inundated with imagery. By integrating principles of metacognition and spatial cognition for learning and experiences, I aim to encourage students to reflect critically on their thought processes while exploring how the design of physical and virtual environments shapes perception, interaction, and learning. This approach not only enhances their understanding of cognitive and spatial dynamics but also equips them with the tools to create meaningful, immersive experiences that resonate in both digital and physical contexts.
Student Teaching Evaluations & Mentorship Testimonials︎︎︎
How I Critique, Support Iteration, and Evaluate Student Work︎︎︎
Interaction and Media Design Education and Pedagogy︎︎︎
Student Teaching Evaluations & Mentorship Testimonials︎︎︎
How I Critique, Support Iteration, and Evaluate Student Work︎︎︎
Interaction and Media Design Education and Pedagogy︎︎︎
BFA Core Lab Environments S24, S25, S26
BFA Core Studio Systems F25
BFA Thesis 1 F24
MFA Visual Design Concepts S24
UX, UI, Visual Design, Experience Design
The most structured and successful student projects across core courses in BFA Design and Technology
Evaluated by Ayo Okunseinde, BFADT Director
BFA Core Studio Systems F25
BFA Thesis 1 F24
MFA Visual Design Concepts S24
UX, UI, Visual Design, Experience Design
Dorkshops
Dorkshop is a legacy-driven learning community, founded and led by MFA Design and Technology (DT) students, dedicated to fostering creative exploration, skill-sharing, and collaborative growth. This Figma template is designed to uphold the Dorkshop legacy by ensuring consistency, efficiency, and professionalism in promoting and executing workshops.
This template is more than a tool—it's a framework that honors Dorkshop’s legacy while empowering hosts to create engaging, professional, and impactful experiences that resonate within and beyond the community.
Dorkshop is a legacy-driven learning community, founded and led by MFA Design and Technology (DT) students, dedicated to fostering creative exploration, skill-sharing, and collaborative growth. This Figma template is designed to uphold the Dorkshop legacy by ensuring consistency, efficiency, and professionalism in promoting and executing workshops.
This template is more than a tool—it's a framework that honors Dorkshop’s legacy while empowering hosts to create engaging, professional, and impactful experiences that resonate within and beyond the community.
Improved Key Features:
- Legacy-Driven Design System: Preserves the visual identity and core values of Dorkshop, ensuring each event aligns with the community’s ethos and creative spirit.
- Customizable Templates: Flexible components allow hosts to easily adapt layouts for diverse workshop formats, ensuring relevance and creative freedom.
- Streamlined Workflow: Simplifies the design process for hosts, reducing preparation time while maintaining clarity and consistency in communication.
- Scalable and Sustainable: Built to evolve with the Dorkshop community, supporting ongoing growth and future innovation.
Teaching Domains:
- Design Disciplines:Interaction Design, Spatial Design, Experiential Design (XR, Installation), Experience Design, Game Design, Media Art, UX & UI
- Theoretical Frameworks: Phenemenology, Queer Phenemenology, Perception and Cognitive Process in Psychology and Philosophy, Human Factored Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Centered Design, Metacognition, Embodied Cognition, Spatial Cognition.
Skills and Methodologies:
- Design Processes: Ideation, Research, Sketching, Contextualization, low to high fidelity Prototyping, UX/UI Design, User Testing, Storytelling, spatial experience, Project Management, Documentation, Communication and Presentation
- Main Technology: Unity, Madmapper, TouchDesigner, Blender, Cinema 4D, MeshAI
- Prototype for XR: Figma, , XR Prototyping Tools–Styly, Ordinary Objects, shapes XR, Bezi
- Ideation: Miro, Figma
- Graphic tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Aftereffects
Instructional Formats:
Workshops & Sessions:
Workshops & Sessions:
- Experiential Learning approach: Hands-on, situated experience: site visit as embodied experience, exploring environment through sensory cartographies, observation, documentation, sketch out experience, collaborative experience gathering and sharing
- presentation of seonsory experiences and observational research: sharing divwers perpections and perspectives interaction results in and with environments.
- Design Process in actively involved in guissing and quizzing process and role play in each step
- peer feedback based on their technical approaches and learning in class, dev log.