BFA, Industrial Design, Rhode Island School of Design
Austen Li is a Vancouver-based UI/UX designer working at Global Relay. With experience in fast-paced startups, Austen primarily focuses on creating user-friendly interfaces that provide the users with the smoothest experience when interacting with a product.
MFD, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Javier Estebecorena is an award winning Fashion Designer who received international acclaim for his clothing brand HE (Hermanos Estebecorena) that operated globally for over 17 years producing innovative and functional design. Javier has over 20 years in Academia teaching design in Buenos Aires University, VCad and Lassalle Colleges; and Design Thinking Consultancy through in house programs and Executive MBA courses, working with public and private sector clients.
Artist
Alison imparts her knowledge of drawing and painting enthusiastically while constantly enlarging her own body of work. As a professional artist and exceptional art instructor. with a rich background in the arts, she brings extensive experience and mastery of various mediums to the classroom. Their talent is matched by a passion for teaching, making art accessible and enjoyable for students of all levels.
Founder and CEO of Green Apple Art Centre
The founder and CEO of Green Apple Art Center, Wayne dedicated to education and learning planning services for 20 years. Adhering to the school-running mission of "the enthusiasm for creation, the determination to pursue art, and the confidence to gain success", he has led the educational team to bring out many elite students. In the past, he has served for many of the top 100 internationally renowned technology companies on both sides of the United States. He has rooted in United States for over 10 years. Familiar with the environment, humanities, history and culture of the United States and Canada, Mr. Chiang's contacts are spread across all major universities and industries on both sides of the strait. His rich experience had helped him to build up this excellent faculty team, which helped many students get admissions to prestigious universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cornell.
BFA Film, Simon Fraser University
Sammy is an interdisciplinary artist who is pioneering new ways of integrating new media into performance while keeping the lines blurred between artistic disciplines. As the co-founder and artistic director of Chimerik Collective, he is also a mentor to many emerging artists who are interested in his style of boundary busting art.
New York School of Interior Design
Maggie is currently the head of IDA's New York branch and the director of IDA's International Teaching and Research Department. She is committed to studying the theory of artistic thinking and exploring various teaching models, and in traditional arts. She seeks to construct a new perspective on the basis of teaching. Adopt heuristic creative teaching in teaching, emphasizing that the core meaning of the work is greater than the technique itself.
M. Arch, MIT
Austin Wade Smith is an architect, design technologist, and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. After studying biology and receiving an M.Arch at MIT 16', he is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union and co-founder of the design studio Helloeverything.
M. Arch, MIT
Lucy Siyao Liu is an artist and architectural designer based in New York. She is currently teaches Experimental Foundation Studies at Rhode Island School of Design and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. In the past she taught in the MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program and the MIT Department of Architecture.
Cinematographer, Videographer
Roger Black has been a Cinematographer, Videographer, Soundman, Editor and Photographer in various capacities for over 25 years. He has worked as an Instructor at the College and Corporate level. He also has experience in the TV and Film industry and well as in the Computer field. He is well rounded in both the artistic and technical areas.
M.Arch, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Jasmine Gao is an architectural designer at HDR in New York City. Prior to this, she was a designer at AECOM, Roula Architecture Association, and Morlen Sinoway Atelier. She received her Bachelor of Interior Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an alumna of Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Design Discovery program and studied abroad at the Architecture Association School of Architecture in London, England.