Dominic Muren

Teaching Professor, Design

ART 242

Education

MID, Industrial Design, The University of the Arts (Philadelphia), 2007
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), 2003

Biography

Dominic Muren has worked as a toy inventor at Meyer/Glass Design, architectural systems researcher at Kieran Timberlake Associates, and, most recently, as product designer at Michael Graves Design Group. He has also written extensively on design and how it relates to society, both online as a writer for Treehugger.com, and on the weblog IDFuel.com, which he founded. Muren’s research interests are in the role of play and games in motivating user action, appropriate manufacturing technologies for distributed production, and systems and methodologies for enabling inter-disciplinary collaboration. His book entitled Green’s Not Black & White: The Balanced Guide to Making Eco Decisions was published in 2009.