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  • Alicia Tam Wei

    Assistant Professor of Product and Industrial Design

    Email
    tam@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Alicia Tam Wei

    Profile

    Alicia Tam Wei is a design strategist and educator. She is passionate about fusing creative ideas with emerging technologies to develop innovative products. An experienced product manager and UX designer for technology start-ups, her product design work has been featured at Wanted Design (NYC) and the Surface Design Show (London).

    In addition to teaching at Parsons, Alicia is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor for Barnard + Columbia Architecture and a Critic for the Industrial Design department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She holds a BA in Architecture from Yale University, an MA from the Royal College of Art, and an MSc from Imperial College London in Innovation Design Engineering.

    Degrees Held

    MA Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art
    MSc Innovation Design Engineering, Imperial College London
    BA Architecture, Yale University

    Current Courses

    Design Studio 5
    PUPD 4010, Fall 2024

    Product Design Semantics
    PGIN 5010, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Integrative Studio 2
    PUFY 1001, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Design Studio 6
    PUPD 4011, Spring 2024

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