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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & IMPACT SPEAKERS
IMPACT SPEAKERS
New Holism - A Transdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Design
Tuesday, May 8, 12:30pm - 1:45pm The HUB, Booth 4585
ANASTASIA
SU
Co-Founder and Creative Director, 13&9
Graz, Austria
MARTIN
LESJAK
Co-Founder, 13&9 CEO and Creative Director, INNOCAD Architecture
Graz, Austria
Anastasia Su is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of 13&9, a transdisciplinary product design firm based in Graz, Austria, that develops projects across multiple categories including furniture, lighting, floor coverings, fashion, accessories and art objects, as well as exhibition and sound design. In addition to her current design work, Su has a medical doctor’s degree which forces her to consistently interpret and implement aspects of well-being into her design concepts and products.
In addition to her role as Creative Director of 13&9, she
also consults for INNOCAD Architecture. Since 2015 she is
a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, FH JOANNEUM Graz, Austria and is a frequent speaker at diverse international events.
Martin Lesjak is the CEO and Creative Director of INNOCAD Architecture and Co-Founder of 13&9. With a close-knit, connected infrastructure and a highly collaborative working philosophy, INNOCAD manages numerous architecture and interiors projects including residential, office, hospitality, healthcare, mixed-use, retail and interior design. His foresight and expertise in architecture, design and craft – as well as an affinity for art – leads these firms into innovative directions on a global scale. Together with his partners, Lesjak leads diverse international projects that combine creativity without boundaries.
Lesjak received one of the international architecture and design community’s top honors, “Designer of the Year 2015” by Contract magazine, followed by “Architect of the Year 2016” by UK-based magazine BUILD.
SUNDAY KEYNOTE SPEAKER
From Pixels to Pictures: The Cinematography of Pixar's Films Sunday, May 6, 12:15pm - 1:45pm
Vista Ballroom
MONDAY KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Innovation in Design
Monday, May 7, 12:15pm - 1:45pm Vista Ballroom
Sponsored by EATON Booth 807
NERI
OXMAN
Career Development Professor, Sony Corporation
Cambridge, MA
DANIELLE
FEINBERG
Director of Photography - Lighting, PIxar Animation Studios
Emeryville, CA
Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter design research group. Her group conducts research at the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, materials science and synthetic biology and applies that knowledge to design across scales from the micro scale to the building scale. Her goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired or engineered by Nature and implementing them in the invention of novel digital design technologies.
Recently, Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group completed version II of their glass 3D printing platform entitled GLASS II, which takes glass to (literal) new heights. The show opened in an exhibition for Lexus YET at Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, April 2017. Neri Oxman received her PhD in design computation as a Presidential Fellow at MIT, where she coined the term Material Ecology to describe her research area. Oxman was named to ICON’s list of the top 20 most influential architects to shape our future, and was selected as one
of the 100 most creative people by Fast Company. Most recently, in 2014 Oxman has won the Vilcek Prize in Design, the Carnegie's Pride of America Award and Boston Society of Architects Women
in Design Award.
Danielle Feinberg began her career at Pixar Animation Studios in February 1997. As she worked her way from an entry level, technical job to one of the top creative positions, she crewed many of Pixar’s feature films including Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Feinberg rose to be the Director of Photography for Lighting on Disney•Pixar’s Academy Award®-winning films WALL•E and Brave and recently worked on Pixar's fall 2017 film Coco.
Feinberg’s love of combining computers and art began when she was eight years old, and first programmed a Logo turtle to create images. This eventually led her to a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. In addition to her Pixar work, she works with teenage girls, encouraging them to pursue code, math and science by demonstrating to them this same magic found by combining art and technology. She was able to bring that message to a broader audience with her TED talk that was part of the PBS “Science and Wonder” presentation for TED Talks Live.
Find out more about all of the speakers at LIGHTFAIR.COM/CONFERENCE/KEYNOTES