Thom Faulders, MArch
Faulders, principal of Beige Design, fluidly moves between the discipline of architecture and the design of temporary environments, furniture, and exhibitions. Often mixing the provocative with the bland, his studio experiments with hybrid assemblies and interactive materials to explore new spatial possibilities. Throughout his research, mutability and unpredictability play primary roles towards linking his architectural explorations with emergent behaviors found in today’s complex information culture.

Faulders exhibited at the 2003 Biennale: Experimentadesign in Lisbon, Portugal, and is included in the Institut Francais d’Architecture Virtual Museum: Micro-architecture. He is the recipient of the “Emerging Voices” award from the Architectural League of New York in 2002. He received an “SFMOMA Experimental Design Award” from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he created a commissioned installation titled Particle Reflex for the exhibition in 2001. Faulders is currently an Assistant Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His work is in the permanent collection of the SFMOMA, and is published nationally and internationally.

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Raoul Rickenberg, PhD
Rickenberg has been helping clients understand how they can use different media to meet their objectives for over a decade. His ability to tailor mediated experiences in ways that align user expectations with client objectives rests on an unusual combination of skills. In addition to years of experience as an information architect and interface designer, Rickenberg has a background in academic research that enables him to uncover what, specifically, the people for whom he is designing desire and how best to meet their goals.

Before founding MAPstudios, Rickenberg was the Director of Experience Design for a Stanford Research Institute venture. Prior to that, he was Creative Director at vivid studios, where he developed a practice area that focused on the integration of research and design. Rickenberg has also taught courses on human-computer interaction and communication at Stanford University and he is currently on the faculty of Parsons School of Design, where his research and teaching focus on the socio-technical systems that underlie processes of design and how these systems evolve as new technologies are adopted. Articles on this work have been published in leading academic journals.

Rickenberg holds a PhD in Communication and an MA in Media Studies from Stanford University. He also earned a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Greg Yang, MArch
Yang is an Architect who lives and works in New York. Since joining the firm Gluckman Mayner Architects in 1995, Yang has been involved in projects ranging from from the design of custom furniture and small-scale residential to large-scale commercial and retail. His involvement has been in all phases of projects, including schematic design, construction documents and construction administration.

Prior to working at Gluckman Mayner Architects, Yang was engaged as an Architect at the Cranbrook Architecture Studio involved with designing, prototyping and building unconventional structures through hands on experience. He has also built a house that he designed for his parents.

Yang holds a MArch from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He also earned a BFA and BArch from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Andrea Ray, MFA
Ray is an audio installation artist who lives and works in New York. She is a 2004 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Architecture / Environmental Structures. In 2003 Ray worked with the Public Art Fund on commissioned proposals for In the Public Realm and in 1997, working with the Cranbrook Science Museum, she was a finalist for an AT&T Art and Technology Grant with an interactive audio and holographic installation proposal. As a resident artist with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2001-02, Ray produced a site-specific audio and photographic installation in the World Financial Center in response to the WTC site. Ray is currently exhibiting a site-specific audio and salt installation at the Sculpture Center in LIC, and has exhibited in many other New York City venues as well as at venues in Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

A graduate of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Andrea Ray received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.