Engineering X Design

The NYU MakerSpace is a cutting edge lab aiming to foster projects at the intersection of technology, creativity and innovation. It features rapid prototyping and PCB production equipment, as well as advanced machining and testing capabilities. The MakerSpace hosts the Design Lab which provides NYU students with opportunities to ideate, experiment, prototype, and build their ideas.

Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace

Join us for this remote discussion about design and engineering with Alonso Castro, Senior Experience Designer at Verizon.

Engineering X Design is a series of fireside chats with professionals who work at the intersection of design, engineering and technology. Through this informal series, we hope to encourage cross-disciplinary conversations about problem solving and innovation between our guests, NYU Students and outside visitors. Join us for our chat with Alonso Castro, Senior Experience Designer at Verizon. We will kick off the evening by learning more about Alonso and his journey from Graphic Design and Digital Art student to Senior Product Designer at a major telecommunications company. He will share some of his own work and projects and then the audience will have the chance to ask questions as well. More about Alonso CastroAlonso is a designer, artist, teacher, technologist and futurist with great passion for experience and interaction design as well as speculative design and art using a wide variety of technologies like A.I and Connected Systems (IoT). He finds importance in design research and processes, and problem solving methods applied to a variety of use cases.Alonso has been working at Verizon since 2017. First, as a Sr. Product Designer at Verizon’s Innovation Lab, now called the 5G Labs. He has helped build the Design Technology role and currently works in the CX Design team.As an artist, he researches and works on projects related to immigration, gastronomy, agriculture, women&#x27;s rights and other topics related to social justice. Most recently, he has worked on concepts that question how society confronts critical problems like climate change and immigration; and how they all intersect with education, agriculture and the future of food.He holds a degree in Graphic Design and Digital Art and a MFA in Design and Technology. Alonso is currently a part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design in the Design &amp; Technology program.Areas of expertise: Interaction Design, Speculative Design, Connected Systems (IoT)**A zoom link will be sent out to all participants the before the event.

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