Masha Drozdov is a frequent guest critic for the advanced integrated architecture studios at Hillier College and Columbia GSAPP and has also participated as a guest for the Alumni Tea discussions at NJIT with students who are figuring out what their career paths will be. Masha’s admiration for Louis Kahns’ work and a fourth year NJIT project has been an inspiration for her volunteer work at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island. She has been a docent at the park since 2012.
After final reviews at the end of this semester the advanced Architecture Studios presented their projects at the Super Jury.
The team of interior and digital design students who collaborated with students in the Tuchman school of management on the COCO Coffee Shop include Sandy Ghattas, Claritza Guerrero, Ahn Ly, Rua Elmosallamy, and Suzanne Hlinka.
Hannah Kum-Biocca, an assistant professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won two awards for an augmented reality project that she submitted to the EuroXR 2020 conference in Valencia, Spain.
In her project, visitors to physical museums can wear a Microsoft Hololens headset to gain additional information about artifacts, such as looking at a real painting by Vincent van Gogh and seeing a virtual 3-D image of the painter himself standing in his bedroom and art studio, while talking about it in his own words.
Students in a new NJIT course that delivers the experience of planning a business on campus appreciate the latitude that instructors give them to make decisions.
Not surprisingly, the year of 2020 proved a dominant source of inspiration for international and local Newark artists including those from the NJIT community, who recently showcased their diverse submissions spanning everything from traditional canvas works and digital art to poetry at this year’s Newark Arts Festival.
Colette Santasieri, Executive Director of the Center for Community Systems and her team have designed and conducted several webinars in recent weeks.
Maria Hurtado De Mendoza spoke on questions of how social inlcusion can be expressed in physical spaces, at any scale.
Watch the full presentation here.
