DESIGN FACULTY INTRODUCTION > MILAD MOZARI

FALL 2020

The Design Program happily welcomed Assistant Professor Milad Mozari to our faculty last fall. A year later, we’d like to properly introduce Milad and the work he’s doing, inside and outside of the studio.

Design Utah: What interested you about the Multi-disciplinary Design Program? 
Milad: The research pathways students take, and their professionalism when presenting. I visited the school a few years ago, and the presentations were like well-rehearsed pieces of music being performed. 

Design Utah: What is your educational background? 
Milad: I have a Bachelor of Science in International Studies (Art History Minor) and an MFA in Sound. After graduate school, I was asked to teach in a Designed Objects program focusing on digital fabrication for five years before coming to Utah. 

Design Utah: Describe your design practice? 
Milad: The role of sound in design ( aural architecture, earcons, objects, etc.), remote sensing and their data translation, and socio-technological tools and their experience as it pertains to individuals, communities, and histories.

Design Utah: What projects are you currently working on? 
Milad: I’m currently finishing a phase of a project that developed remote digital sensors with indigenous tribes in Taiwan. My collaborator and I are scheduled to go back next summer to plant endangered species (kept at the Taipei Botanical Gardens) alongside these sensors at three different locations. I am also in production for a VR experience that deals with learning Beijing Opera through handtracking capabilities. 

Design Utah: What is your hope for the future of design education? 
Milad: For it to broaden in dialogue when we approach design foundations, research methods and the potential role of poetics at the end.

Design Utah: What would you say is the best part of Utah?
Milad: The unpretentious world cuisine spread across the Salt Lake Valley, and the cinematic mountains in the morning.

Design Utah: In Covid times, what do you miss about Third Floor North?
Milad: Staying hydrated and engaged with water cooler talk.

View Milad’s faculty profile here.

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