Chris Woebken

Chris Woebken

Designer, MA RCA Design Interactions

Greater New York City Area

Current
Past
  • Media Producer at mme
  • Internship at gmp-architekten
Education
  • Royal College of Art
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Chris Woebken’s Summary

Chris Woebken is interested in designing for the invisible, developing tools to explore unknown ecologies and new ways of interacting with the city.

Chris grew up in Hamburg and studied Design Interactions at the RCA. He is now based in New York working on research projects for Natalie Jeremijenko at the NYU and the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia GSAPP. Prior he worked at Adobe Systems and IDEO in San Francisco.

He has been a visiting critic at design schools including Columbia University and MIT Media Lab.

Exhibitions:
"What if?", Sciencegallery, Dublin, 2009
"Confines", IVAM, Valencia, 2009
"Design Biennale", St. Etienne, 2008
"Design and the Elastic Mind", MoMA New York, 2008

Publications:
Birkhäuser, Smart Surfaces (New Sensual Interfaces), 2009
Gestalten, Play All Day (Animal Superpowers), 2009
Axis Magazine (A New Relationship to Money), 2009/06
Archistorm Magazine (Sensual Interfaces), 2009/01
Good Magazine - (Animal Superpowers), 2008/12
Icon Magazine (A New Relationship to Money), 2008/09
Design and the Elastic Mind Catalog, 2008

Awards:
I.D. Student Review Award (honorable mention), 2008

Talks:
MIT Tangible Media Group, Boston, 2008/10


Chris Woebken’s Experience

  • Design Fellow

    New York University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

  • Internship

    IDEO

    (Privately Held; Design industry)

    July 2007September 2007 (3 months)

  • Interaction Designer

    Adobe Systems

    (Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

    October 2001September 2006 (5 years )

  • Internship

    method studios

    (Public Company; ASCMA; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

    August 2001September 2001 (2 months)

  • Media Producer

    mme

    (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

    March 2000August 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  • Internship

    gmp-architekten

    (Architecture & Planning industry)

    19971997 (less than a year)


Chris Woebken’s Education

  • Royal College of Art

    MA , Design Interactions , 20062008


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Chris Woebken’s Interests:

Experience Design, Design as Research, Robotics, Interface Design, Digital Fabrication, Photography, Electronics R&D


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