- Jul 23, 2026
- Technology + Human Thriving
For the birds: Parakeet co-designs its own perch
- Apr 7, 2025
- Community Engagement, Social Impact + Justice, Sustainability + Society
Levy Award winner leads team co-designing playgrounds with elementary students
Fatma Baytar
Dr. Fatma Baytar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design at Cornell University. Her research foci are two-fold. The first is on developing new computational tools and methods for achieving seamless digitalization of new product development in the apparel industry. The second is on educating current and future workforce on using 3D digital technologies. Dr. Baytar is cross-trained in textile engineering and apparel design, and has extensive research and teaching experiences
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- Human Centered Design
- MVR 1250 Gallery
Perversion of Interfaces
Perversion of Interfaces showcases design prototypes that are made as part of research at the Machine Poetics Lab. The exhibit includes physical product designs that have AI as a core part.
- Apr 17 ,2026
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Zoom.
Social and environmental responsibility in fashion education, research and practice
My work in ethical fashion is predominately at the intersection of writing, education and advisement, and most of the time what I talk about with students, brands and other academic institutions, are the various impacts of fashions value chain on people and planet. My work extends beyond environmental impacts, to prioritise ethics, reflecting on the cultural and social Zeitgeist and the responses from an industry struggling in the midst of rapidly shifting global values and
Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp
Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp is a designer and educator whose work is guided by her interest in material culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and collective meanings of design.
As a lecturer in Human Centered Design, she teaches courses in fashion, aesthetics and society and fashion draping; hosts workshops that invite outside experts to share their experience with the Human Centered Design community; and serves as associate director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection. She is
Paige Tomfohrde
Paige Tomfohrde (she/her) is a multiracial diasporic settler of color living on and learning from the lands of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ people. She is a PhD candidate in Fiber Science and Apparel Design at Cornell University. She has an MA in Design from the University of Minnesota, a BA in Apparel Design and Technology from Purdue University, and an AAS in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her mixed methods community-engaged research investigates the