Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Media Lab Cambridge, MA
M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences with the Tangible Media Group
expected June 2004
PhD. in Media Arts and Sciences with the Tangible Media Group
begin June 2004

International Fashion Machines, Cambridge, MA
design intern
electronic color change textiles

Exploratorium  San Francisco, CA      
multimedia exhibit developer
Developed interactive multimedia exhibits from initial concept to final floor installation including concept research, prototyping, and building digital, electrical and structural components while collaborating with scientists, artists, writers, graphic designers and evaluators.

West Office Exhibition Design  Oakland, CA      
exhibition designer
Designed exhibition components including scale models, 3D fabrication design and graphic panels.  

1/98-8/99

National Science Museum   London, UK            
exhibition researcher
Researched concepts and material for exhibitions, evaluated design and communication of exhibitions for level of public understanding and expectations of content using visitor-orientated methods.

10/97-5/99

The CDM Consultancy  Newport Beach, CA                
product designer
Worked on the design of a new line of infant toys including sketching, rendering, choice of color palette and materials, and costing concerns.

Peggy Guggenheim Modern Art Collection  Venice, Italy
museum/head intern
Duties included assisting curators with installations, researching exhibitions, helping with public relations, leading tours, delivering a lecture, and maintaining galleries. As head intern, in charge of coordinating fifteen interns, organized and designed a museum education project to help children better understand the collection.

Wired NextFest, San Francisco May 2004, exhibition of Topobo in new technologies world fair.

Topobo: a Constructive Assembly with Kinetic Memory, with Hayes Raffle
Guest lecture at Ivrea Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea, Italy April 2004

Panelist, Trading Spaces: CHI 2004

Raffle, H., Parkes, A. and Ishii, H. Topobo: A Constructive Assembly with Kinetic Memory, Proceedings of CHI 2004 ACM Press, April 2004.

Topobo: a Constructive Assembly with Kinetic Memory, presentation to Motorola Corporation at MIT Fellows Day, December 2003.

Topobo: an Educational Digital Manipulative, presentation with Hayes Raffle to Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, Tufts University, November 2003.

Topobo: a Constructive Assembly with Kinetic Memory, presentation with Hayes Raffle to Lego Corporation, Billund, Denmark, August, 2003.

Topobo: a Constructive Assembly with Kinetic Memory, presentation with Hayes Raffle to Future Lab, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, August, 2003.

Interactive Technologies for Museums presentation at Best Practices in Exhibition Design Conference, Exploratorium, San Francisco, April 2003.

Collision 5, Boston Cyberarts Festival at the MIT Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Group Show, April 2003.

Traits of Life exhibition, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, opened October 2002.
permanent exhibition of 2 multi-media works.

Seeing - the interaction of Physiology, Culture and Technology exhibition, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, opened June 2002. permanent exhibition of 5 multi-media works.