WIT
In 2018 and 2019 I returned to Studio IV — the Wentworth Institute of Technology study-abroad program in Berlin that first brought me to Germany in 2012 and sent me down a path I didn’t anticipate: admission to KHB Weissensee, a master’s in Product Design and a career built here.
Teaching the same studio semester to new generations of third-year students, with some real-world professional experience behind me, was a very rewarding full-circle experience.
To learn more about the Industrial Design department at WIT visit: www.idatwitannual.com/about
Teaching Studio IV at Wentworth Institute of Technology's Berlin study-abroad program — returning as instructor to the course that first brought me to Germany.
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Teaching
Led Studio IV as adjunct professor for WIT's summer semester in Berlin from 2018, mentoring third-year industrial design students through a project-based design curriculum grounded in the European context.
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Personal significance
Returned to the program as instructor after first participating as a student in 2012 — the same semester that sparked a move to Berlin and subsequent enrollment at the Berlin Art Academy (KHB Weissensee).
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Academic approach
Brought years of professional practice in Germany into the classroom — a slightly different flavor of design than the standard third-year curriculum in Boston.
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Program
WIT's Industrial Design Berlin program is still running and still shaping students the way it shaped me. Learn more at idatwitannual.com/about.
