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Prasad Boradkar
Assistant Professor, School of Design
Prasad Boradkar
is an assistant professor in the School of Design at Arizona State
University in Tempe. He holds degrees in industrial design and
mechanical engineering, and has held positions at the Delft University
of Technology in the Netherlands as well as ITT Technical Institute in
California. At ASU, Prasad teaches studio, design history, and materials
& processes at the undergraduate level, and a graduate course on design
and cultural studies. The central objective of his research activities
is to perform critical cultural analyses of objects, thereby expanding
their accepted meanings in industrial design discourse. He is the
co-founder of CriticalCorps, an interdisciplinary group of design
researchers and educators who use critical and cultural theory as a
means to understand the social significance of the designed environment
and everyday life. He will be the Curriculum Leader for InnovationSpace
for 2005-2006.
Prasad is currently working on a book titled Designing Things: A
Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects, to be published by Berg
Press in the UK in 2007.
He is also the Vice-Chair of the Arizona Chapter of the Industrial
Designers Society of America.
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