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Inna Alesina
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MAC S26

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Inna Alesina M.F.A.

Professor
Art & Graphic Design | School of Design, Arts, and Communication

Education

  • M.F.A., Graphic Design; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • B.F.A., Product Design; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Professional Experience

With 25 years of design practice and 20+ years of design teaching experience, Inna Alesina considers herself an earth-advocate, and also, a professor, an author, a designer and a maker. Her work has merited over a dozen patents, numerous design awards, and has been highlighted by exhibitions, residencies, and workshops. 

Research

Inna’s work spans many disciplines and media including object design, performance wear, communication design, ergonomics, and most recently food systems. She is always looking for new areas to apply her design thinking. One of her recent research projects at SU is a Design Impact initiative. In 2017 her project “Building a Course Syllabus Using Visual Design Tools and Design Thinking Methods” received the Innovative Teaching with Technology award from Stevenson University.

  • The Gifts of Time, Space & Attention – advocating for biodiversity through forging, making, and design / Presented at HASTAC conference at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn, NY/ June 2023
  • Maryland State Art Council/ Creativity Grant/2022-2023
  • Presented at the UWC “resilience in place”/ Conference in Montezuma, New Mexico/2022
  • The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Manizales, Columbia/2020
  • Expert Panel on Sustainability at the Jewish Museum of Maryland/2019
  • Arts Alive art integration grant for Participatory Design project on campus, Stevenson University/2018
  • MICA/ Architecture Design/ talk about biomaterials, Baltimore/2018
  • Presented at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Aarhus, Denmark/2016 

Publications

Recent Exhibitions

  • DATUM Observations, Greenspring Gallery at Stevenson University/2023 
  • Conversations Between/show in KMAC art gallery, Stevenson University/2023 
  • OVERLOOKED, Featured Faculty solo show, Greenspring Gallery at Stevenson University/2018-2019  
  • Art___Is, Is___Art, Participatory installation at Stevenson University/2017 
  • Intersection, Interaction, Action! Curated Participatory Exhibition and  
  • Workshops at MICA/2016
  • Stevenson Art Faculty Exhibition/ 2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020 

Publications

  • Prototyping situations to engage university campus constituency in creative participation and conversations about art, values and things that matter to students” was peer-revied and accepted for the international design conference Design Culture(s) CulumusRoma 2020. 
  • “Using nature as framework for teaching design” was presented at the 5th international Conference for Design Education Researchers in METU, Ankara, July 2019 and published in the conference proceedings.
  • “The medium is the message: reinvesting in environments and communities changes habits”— Station North Arts and Entertainment District case study. The abstract was accepted for Unmaking Waste 2015-Transforming Production and Consumption in Time and Place conference; Adelaide, Australia. This paper was co-authored with Lori Rubeling. 
  • Co-authored with Ellen Lupton, Exploring Materials: Creative Designs for Everyday Objects (2010), available from Princeton Architectural Press. https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Materials-Creative-Everyday-Objects/dp/1568987684 

Teaching

  • Fundamentals of Digital Media
  • The Mill Design Center
  • Introduction to Corporate Design
  • Senior Capstone

 

Highlights

  • Core77 Design Awards, Overlooked, Educational Initiative, notable/ 2019

  • Good Design Award, product design, Corcl boat, Chicago, USA/2019 

  • Red Dot Design Award, product design, Corcl boat, Essen, Germany
    H    onorable mention/2018 

  • Dean’s Award for Excellence, Stevenson University/2018 

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