Nancy Diniz awarded EYEBEAM residency
Faculty News:
Assistant Professor Nancy Diniz has been awarded a residency fellowship at the prestigious Eyebeam art + technology center in New York City, under their newly launched program “New Works from Innovators at the Intersection of Art and Technology“.
Nancy Diniz is an architect, researcher and educator. Her main research and teaching interests question traditional scale boundaries between design disciplines – Product Design, Architecture and Computer Science. Lately she has been prototyping modular and scalable systems that go from people to envelopes of buildings, exploring notions of wearable and mobile materials with real-time environmental information exchange properties.
At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Professor Diniz teaches at CASE/NYC and the Geofutures graduate program, before she held several academic positions in China, UK, Italy and in Portugal in the areas of Architecture, Interior architecture, Environmental Technology and Interactive Design.