Paul Pangaro

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture & School of Design, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

(Fall 2022, 2023, 2024) "History and Future of Interaction Design", studio course

(Spring 2024) "Machine Intelligence, Cybernetics, Design" with Ensar Temizel

(Spring 2023) "Systems, Cybernetics, Conversations"

(Spring 2023) "Wicked Collaborations", 7-week Seminar

(Fall 2023) "Design Studies: SYSTEMS", 7-week required course for Second-year Design Undergraduate 

 

Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer-Interaction Institute, Schoolr of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

(Spring 2020, 2021, 2022) “Interaction Design Studio II”, required for HCI majors

(3 sections, ~40 students each section, 2 co-instructors per section)

 

(Spring 2020) “Designing for Conversation: Theories, Models, Mechanisms”, elective

(28 students, 28 remaining on waitlist) co-designed / -taught with Dr. Jill Fain Lehman

 

(Fall 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) “Interaction Design Studio I”, required for HCI majors

(2 sections, ~40 students each section, 2 co-instructors per section)

 

(Fall 2019) “Interaction Design Overview”

(1 section, ~40 students, 2 co-instructors)

 

(Summer 2019) “Designing for Conversation: Theories, Models, Making”, 6-week mini

(7 students) co-designed / -taught with Dr. Jill Fain Lehman

 

College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, USA

(Spring 2018 Special Project) “COLLOQUY 2018 Project”, the full-scale, behavioral

and visial reproduction of the original, seminal, interactive 1968 installation of Gordon

Pask’s “Colloquy of Mobiles.” Collaboration with TJ McLeish, master fabricator, and

the MFA IxD students in their Studio II and Studio IV courses. Initiated and led the

project with duties including scientific direction of the replica, raising funds, and

promoting the project and its outcomes. Incorporated studentparticipation from

two MFA design studios. The reproduction was exhibited as part of the exhibition,

“NEURONES. LES INTELLIGENCES SIMULÉES”, Centre Pompidou in Paris, in

February, 2020. It is now part of the permanent collection of the ZKM Museum in

Karlsruhe, Germany. Student documentation at ColloquyOfMobiles.com.

(Fall 2016-2018 and Spring 2017-2018) “Graduate Thesis I and Graduate Thesis II”,

Thesis advisor for each second year student in the cohort. Required courses for

MFA IxD.

 

(Spring Semesters 2015-2018) Designed and taught “Studio IV: Immersive Interactive

Experiences Studio”, development of a taxonomy to apply to historical and

contemporary works, as foundation for students’ design and prototyping of a gallery

experience. Required course for MFA IxD.

 

(Fall Semesters 2015-2018) Designed and taught “Frameworks for Interaction &

Conversation”, literacy in modeling effective behaviors to achieve goals in human,

technological, and hybrid systems. Required course for MFA IxD.

 

(Fall Semesters 2016-2017) Designed and taught “Studio III: Interaction Design

Evolution Studio”, exploration of 5 major historical innovations, each of which is

recapitulated by students in modern prototypes, followed by course project to

invent future modes of interaction. Required course for MFA IxD.

 

(Fall Semesters 2015-2016) Co-designed and co-taught “Transportation +

Interaction Design Studio III”, combining students from 2 masters programs to

develop proposals for the autonomous interior functioning of the autonomous car.

Required course for MFA IxD and MFA Transportation.

 

School of Visual Arts, MFA Program in Interaction Design, New York, USA

(2010-2014) Designed and taught ”Introduction to Cybernetics and Systems for

Design” to first-year MFA students. (~18 students)

 

(2011) “Thesis Preparation”, final-semester course for second-year MFA students,

clarifying and refining thesis projects (not primary advising), focusing on core

questions and originality, preparing portfolio and final live presentation.

(~18 students)

 

Parsons/The New School, Undergraduate Program,New York

(2010) Designed and taught “Systems and Service Design”, at the invitation of

Cameron Tonkinwise. (~18 students)

2001

 

Stanford University, Computer Science Department, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) program, Palo Alto, California

(2002–2007) Co-designed and co-taught “Introduction to Cybernetics and Systems

for Design” with Hugh Dubberly, at the invitation of Terry Winograd. (~30 students)

(2001) Designed and taught “Introduction to Cybernetics: A Humanistic Approach to

Computing”, at the invitation of Terry Winograd. (~30 students)

 

George Washington University, Graduate Management Program, Washington DC, USA

(1990) Designed and taught “Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics”. (~20 students)

(1990) Designed and taught “Introduction to Systems and Cybernetics”. (~20 students)

 

1987 American Society for Cybernetics, Annual Conference, Urbana

(1987) Co-designed and co-taught Tutorial “Introduction to Cybernetics”

with Heinz von Foerster.

 

Visible Language Workshop, MIT Department of Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

(1978–1983) Lectures for Computers & Graphics course, at the invitation of Muriel Cooper.