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Emily Smith is a professor for New Media Design at University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Berlin campus. Visit us to know more!

Professor Smith has been with BKT and UE since 2012 and is Vice Dean for the Art & Design faculty and Program Director for Media Spaces (Media Art, Design & Environment). Professor Smith's areas of expertise are Exhibition Design, Spatial Design, Way-finding, Material Culture, Design Curation, Experimental Design, Visual Anthropology, and Museology. Additional expertise includes Ethics, Social Justice, Decolonization, and Ethnographic Research Method.
  • 2021 – present Professor for New Media Design (MA) at UE Art & Design
  • 2017–2019 Vice Dean, Faculty of Art & Design
  • 2016–2021 Programme Director for Communication Design (BA) at UE Art & Design 
  • since 2016 Professor for Communication Design (BA) at UE Art & Design 
  • 2011–2016 Lecturer at btk
  • 2010–2012 studied Visual and Media Anthropology (MA) at Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2001–2005 Designer at Leonardi & Wollein/Wollein & Co., Berlin
  • 1998–2000 studied Graphic Design & Movement–Based Design (BFA) at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA
  • 1987–1991 studied Latin American Studies (BA) at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA
  • 1969 born in Salt Lake City, UT

  • 2018 Artistic Direction for the ‘Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 2018: Ministry of Graphic Design’, Sharja (UAE)
  • 2014 Art direction for Zeiss Museum of Optics (with Bertron Schwarz Frey)
  • 2013 Senior curator of ‘RE: Critical dialogue on photography, film and documentary arts’
  • 2012–2013 Eberswalde Fimfestival, Platform of Abstract Photography and site-specific locations in Brandenburg, DE “Deep Roots, Dormant Branches” Photography and Video installation
  • 2006–2010 Exhibition design for Museum für Naturkunde, Neues Museum and Deutsches Technikmuseum (with Rimini Berlin)
  • 2009 Graphic design for Otto Bock Science Center Berlin (with ART&COM)
  • 2009 CEBIT Stand Deutsche Telekom, Concept and Motion Design (with q-bus Mediatektur)

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