Sawyer Seminar Post-Doctoral Fellowship (in Design), The New School (New York)
Apply by February 1, 2018
The New School seeks applicants for a one-year postdoctoral fellow to join their 2018-19 Sawyer Seminar entitled Imaginative Mobilities supported by the Mellon Foundation.
The postdoctoral fellow for The New School Sawyer Seminar will work with a diverse team of scholars including Anthony Dunne (Co-Director of the Designed Realities Lab), Victoria Hattam (Politics), Fiona Raby (Co-Director of the Designed Realities Lab), Miriam Ticktin (Anthropology), and Alex Aleinikoff (University Professor and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility). The Seminar aims to bring the different traditions of design and the social sciences into dialogue. In doing so, they aim to open up new questions and lines of analysis through a more im-aginative engagement with political possibilities of “bordering”. The aim is not to develop ‘design solutions’ but design propositions, useful fictions and hypothetical scenarios in order to facilitate different kinds of conversations across disciplines.
The Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow will:
· assist with preparation of seminars and workshops
· participate in seminars and workshops
· turn selected ideas generated in workshops into design proposals and visualizations
· help design a project website documenting project outcomes.
Applicants must have:
· an MFA or PhD degree level qualification in design, architecture or a related field
· a portfolio of projects which demonstrate a high degree of aesthetic sophistication and an interest in experimenting with visual language and modes of representation
· experience using 3D Modeling software such as Rhino or similar, as well as 2D packages such as Illustrator (essential) and Photoshop
· the capacity to work at the scale of both objects and environments
· interest in collaboration across design, art, the social sciences and humanities
· the ability to develop project ideas from academic discussions and material
Desirable but not essential:
· experience working with WordPress or similar platforms
· an interest in issues related to migration, mobility and citizenship
The University is engaged in a diversity initiative and we encourage individuals from groups un-derrepresented in U.S. higher education to apply. The New School is committed to maintaining a diverse educational and creative community, a policy of equal opportunity in all its activities and programs, including employment.
The deadline for applications is February 1, 2018. The review of the applications will begin imme-diately and will remain open until the position is filled.
