HCII Seminar Series - Ana Maria Pinto da Silva
Speaker
Ana Maria Pinto da Silva
Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University
When
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Video
Panopto
Description
"Designing Futures. Community. Care & Courage in the Age of AI"
That we are living through a time of unprecedented technological change is a given. As we survey our trajectory over the past quarter century, where do we find ourselves as a design/technology community? What does it mean to design? To envision? To create? And most crucially, what does it mean to imagine? In this talk, Professor Ana Pinto da Silva will explore first principles as we collectively chart a new course forward as we launch forward into the next quarter century of technologically inflected change.
Speaker's Bio
Accomplished design technologist, educator, community servant, and public speaker, Ana is dedicated to building intergenerational, interdisciplinary innovation communities laser-focused on making a difference. As incoming Head of School at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, Ana is committed to preparing emerging innovation leaders to deliver the future of design and technology towards the emergence of a more equitable, resilient, and joyous world. Across her career, Ana has led future-forward design innovation initiatives traversing aging and longevity, healthcare, education, civics, shopping, and productivity for Amazon, Microsoft, NBBJ, and others. Her work explores the nexus of leading-edge scientific research, design thinking, business development, and social change, underscoring the continued need to develop products and services that center under-served populations as both drivers and recipients of first-tier technology innovation.
A dedicated community servant, Ana is deeply committed to leading and fostering creative communities. She is the former Director of the University of Washington’s Masters in Human Computer Interaction and Design, the founder of aging and longevity housing initiative, 2G3R, the founder of the Seattle Pecha Kucha speaker series, one of the longest running PK city series in the world and is the founding chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design's global Design Impact initiative. Her extensive board service includes the Harvard Graduate School of Design Masters in Design Engineering program, the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council, Leadership Tomorrow, 4Culture, the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park Committee., the Nehemiah Initiative and the National Museum and Center for Service. She was past board Vice-President for Design In Public and has been an adviser to the Seattle Waterfront Design Oversight Committee.
Ana received her B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley and her MDesS from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is a graduate of Seattle’s Leadership Tomorrow program serving as class valedictorian in 2009.
Host
Brad Myers