
Teaching Professor, Design
ART 242
Fields of Interest
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.
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Research Advised
- Min Jung Koo. "Heartfelt homes: Bridging Communication and Emotional Connections." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2024.
- Wyatt Olson. "Between Lines: Critically Speculating Futures with Location-Based Recommendation Systems." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2024.
- Kelsey Aschenbeck. "Mourning Small Spaces." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2019.
- Angela Piccolo. "Through Our Eyes: Inclusive Design as Visually Impaired Users." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2019.
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