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Susanne Seitinger, PhD Global Sub-segment Manager | Public Professional Systems | Philips Lighting 3 Burlington Woods Drive, 4th Floor Burlington, MA 01803, USA Phone: +1 718.753.2854 mobile, +1 781.418.9259 office, +1 888.385.5742 main Email: [email protected] URL: www.susanneseitinger.com (forthcoming)

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD in Media Arts and Sciences, September 2010 Smart Cities Group, MIT Media Lab, Prof. William J. Mitchell Advisor Liberated Pixels: Alternative Narratives for Lighting Future Cities (PhD Dissertation) Approaches to urban lighting and ambient displays based on flexible, unbounded, programmable elements in urban public spaces. Design scenarios, technology prototypes, sociomaterial histories. Committee: Bill Mitchell, Pattie Maes, Richard Sennett (New York University, London School of Economics), Alex Taylor (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Media Arts and Sciences, 2006 Smart Cities Group, MIT Media Lab, Prof. William J. Mitchell Advisor Animated Props for Responsive Playspaces (MS Thesis) Envisioning new artifacts for full-body play in outdoor playgrounds. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36149 Committee: Mitch Resnick, Edith Ackermann

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of City Planning, 2004 Spaces of Innovation: 21st Century Technopoles (MCP Thesis) Comparative case studies of technology clusters in Singapore, Korea, Malaysia based on an initial experience in Sophia Antipolis, France. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17707 Beijing Studio with MIT-Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC, Summer 2004 MIT SIGUS Housing Workshop, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, January 2003

Princeton University, B.A. Architecture, French Certificate, 1997-2001 Summa cum laude, GPA 3.83, Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors in the Department of Architecture

Columbia University in Paris, Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris VII, Spring 1999

Awards

Selected as one of 17 “Future Leaders” highlighted in LD+A, Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society (December 2013) Research Grant (34k €) by the Austrian Research Foundation (Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft) (awarded December 2010, bulk of project completed by December 2011) Graduate Student Life Grant for MediaWomen’s Career Development Event (March 12, 2010) Research Fellow, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, MIT Media Lab (September 2007-June 2008) MIT School of Architecture and Planning Horowitz Travel Grant to present MS Thesis at the Interaction Design and Children conference in Tampere, Norway (June 2006) Urban Pixels, MIT Council for the Arts Grant (2007) Urban Land Institute, ULI Student Urban Design Competition Finalists for holistic neighborhood development plan sited in south-east Washington D.C. (2003)

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Publications

Conference Publications (Peer-reviewed) Murdoch, M., Seitinger, S., Roth, E., Goldstein, P., Engelke, U. “Light Profile Uniformity in Linear Lighting Applications,” in Proc. Of Color and Imaging Conference (Boston, MA, November 3-7, 2014). Offenhuber, D., Seitinger, S. “Over the Rainbow - Information Design for Low-Resolution Urban Displays,” in Media Architecture Biennale (Aarhus, Denmark, November 19 - 22 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2682884.2682893 Seitinger, S., Canazei, M., Schrom-Feiertag, H. “LEDs on the Go: Supporting Pedestrian Flows in Public Transit Networks with Accent Lighting for Increased Efficiencies and Ambient Information Display,” in Proc. of 13th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Lighting (LS13) (Troy, New York, June 24-29, 2012). Selected as Landmark Paper Presentation. Seitinger, S., Beamish, A. “Designing for the Urban Night: An Interdisciplinary Course on Lighting, Technology and Urban Design,” Colour and Light in Architecture. (University of Venice Iuav, Venice, Italy, November 11, 2010). Seitinger, S. Taub, D.M., Taylor, A.S. “Light Bodies,” in Proc. of TEI’10 (Cambridge, MA, January 2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1709886.1709908 Seitinger, S. “Designing for Spatial Competence,” in Proc. of IDC’09 (Como, Italy, June 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551810 Seitinger, S., Perry, D.S, Mitchell, W.J. "Urban Pixels: Painting the City with Light," in Proc. of CHI’09 (Boston, MA, April 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518829 Schmitt, P., Seitinger, S. "Plywood Punk: A Holistic Approach to Designing Animated Artifacts," in Proc. of TEI’09 (Cambridge, UK, February 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1517664.1517695 Seitinger, S. “An Ecological Approach to Children's Playground Props,” in Proc. of IDC'06 (Tampere, Finland, June 2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1139073.1139103 Seitinger, S., Sylvan, E., Zuckerman, O., Popovic, M., Zuckerman, O. "A New Playground Experience: Going Digital?" in Extended Abstracts Proc. of CHI’06 (Montreal, Canada, April 2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125520

Conference Posters and Workshop Contributions (Peer-reviewed) “DIY-LED Holiday Star.” DIY for CHI. Workshop at CHI’09 (Boston, MA, April 5, 2009). “De-light-ful Cities.” Night and Darkness: Interaction after Dark. Workshop at CHI’08 (Florence, Italy, April 2008). Seitinger, S., Feldmeier, M. “Urban Pixels,” Late-Breaking Poster, in Proc. of Ubicomp’07. (Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007). “MyBall: A Responsive Playground Prop for Open-Ended Play,” held at Practice, Process, Papers. Science Technology & Society Graduate Students’ Conference, MIT (February 17-19, 2006).

Journal Publications (Peer-reviewed) Liapi, M., Seitinger, S. “My Workshop,” in Thresholds. Vol. 30 (2005), pp. 54-61.

Book Chapters Seitinger, S. “Wie die digitalisierte Beleuchtung unsere Welt verändert,” in D. Köhler. Lichtforum NRW. (Arnsberg, Germany, Forthcoming). Seitinger, S. “Vienna: “Even Historic Vienna Was New Once”,” in Isenstadt, S., Margaret Maile P., Neumann, D., eds. Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination. (Cambridge, UK: Routledge, 2015). Seitinger, S. “LightBridge: Embracing the Messiness, Exposing the Analytics,” in Offenhuber, D., Schechtner, K., eds. Inscribing a Square: Urban Data as Public Space, (Springer, 2012), pp. 32-35. Seitinger, S. “Light Bodies. Project example for working with Funnel/Arduino,” in Kobayashi, S. Prototyping Lab. Make: Projects, O’Reilly. (In Japanese), (2010), pp. 18-21. Seitinger, S. Hirsch, T. “Beyond Use: Material Consciousness and Creative Engagements with Urban Infrastructure,” in Writing Cities Working Paper Series 2010, London School of Economics (London UK, 2010).

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Publications (cont.)

Other Seitinger, S., Kontogouri, M. “Light Links,” Luminous 15 (May 2015). www.lighting.philips.com/main/cases/luminous- magazine Seitinger, S., Weiss, A. Light for Public Space. Philips Lighting. Publication and 3-Part Webinar series. (January 2015). www.philips.com/lightforpublicspace Demo hour. interactions 18, 3 (May 2011), 8-9. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1962438.1962441 Mitchell, W. J., Casalegno, F. Smart Mobility: Rethinking the Paris Bus Line. Smart Cities Group/MIT Media Laboratory, RATP, Studio Report (2005). Mitchell, W. J., Frenchman, D., Ratti, C., Perry, G., Seitinger, S. MAS.968 Cannes Reloaded, Studio Report. 2003. Frenchman, D., Wampler, J., Lukez, P. Joint Design Studio. World Architecture 177 (March 2005), pp.24-26. Ratti, C., Seitinger, S. "Experiencing Cannes and the Riviera," Cluster Magazine (2003).

Selected Presentations, Exhibits and Demos

“Light for Public Space,” Committee on Tourism, Arts, Parks, Entertainment and Sports, United States Conference of Mayors (San Francisco, CA, June 19-22, 2015). “Light and the Perception of Safety in Public Spaces after Dark,” City after Dark: Illuminating the Urban Nightscape. (Jerusalem, Israel, June 10-12, 2015). “Exploring Metrics for Ambient Polychromatic Light in Interior Settings for Circadian Support,” based on research with N. Piskun, E. Crouch, B. Roberge, F. Sert-Kuniyoshi, D. White, S. Pittman. Artificial Lighting at Night ALAN (Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, May 29-31, 2015). “Front Door or Fig Leaf: Can City CIOs Help Build Smarter Cities?” Panel Discussion at 1776 Transportation & Cities Conference: Civic Tech on the Rise. (Washington D.C., May 14, 2015). “Light for Public Space.” Filux Festival (Mexico City, Mexico, May 8-10, 2015). “Urban Lighting Installations: Human Scale to Big Data,” Panel Discussion with Nancy Clanton, Dietmar Offenhuber, Michael Poplawski. Lightfair 2015 (New York, NY, May 6, 2015). “Lighting + Data + Media Architecture.” IES New England. (February, March 24, 2015). “Lighting Futures,” Configuring Light (London, UK, February 19, 2015). “Oh, the Places You’ll Go, If You Have Smart Lighting,” US Dept. of Energy Solid State Lighting Market Developments (Detroit, MI, November 12-13, 2014). http://energy.gov/eere/ssl/downloads/2014-doe-solid-state- lighting-market-development-workshop “Lighting for Responsive Cities,” Illuminating Engineering Society, Street and Area Lighting Conference keynote address (Nashville, TN, September 14-17, 2014). www.ies.org/salc/ “Looking Ahead 1997-2097,” Philips Research Centennial Address (Eindhoven, NL, March 27, 2014) “Light Beacons: Supporting Wayfinding through Interactive Lighting,” Media Facades Summit (Frankfurt, Germany, 2- 3 April, 2014). www.mediaarchitecture.org/mfs14/ “How Solid-State Lighting Is Transforming Cities,” LEDs and the SSL Ecosystem 2013 (Boston, MA, October 28, 2013), www.ledsconference.com/leds-ssl-agenda.aspx “Pathways to Deeper Energy Savings and Broader Market Adoption,” DOE Solid-State Lighting R&D Workshop (Long Beach, CA, January 29, 2013). www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/longbeach13.html “What Time Is This Place? NOW,” Theatrum Mundi (New York, October 12, 2012). http://theatrum- mundi.org/projects/second-theatrum-mundi-global-street-conference/ “From the Empire State Building to the Bay Bridge: The Energy Costs and Environmental Impacts of Smart Lighting,” Meeting of the Minds. (San Francisco, October 11, 2012), http://cityminded.org/speaker/susanne-seitinger “Beyond Energy Efficiency: New Approaches & Applications for Lighting in Smart Cities,” IESNA Illuminate Philadelphia. (Philadelphia, PA, September 24, 2012). www.iesphl.org/ “LEDs on the Go: Supporting Pedestrian Flows in Public Transit Networks with Accent Lighting for Increased Efficiencies and Ambient Information Display,” in Proc. of 13th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Lighting (LS13) (Troy, New York, June 24-29, 2012). Selected as Landmark Paper Presentation. “Liberated Pixels,” Lightfair International (Las Vegas, May 11, 2012). “Light and the City: Culture, Design and Industry,” Light+Building, Theatrum Mundi/Global Street at the Städelschule (Franfkurt a/M, Germany, April 15, 2012). http://theatrum-mundi.org/projects/light/ “LightBridge,” Control This! (New York, October 20, 2011). www.controlthis.org Page 4 of 6 | Curriculum Vitae | Susanne Seitinger

Selected Presentations, Exhibits and Demos (cont.)

“Surfacing Opportunities for Engagement through Responsive Lighting Infrastructures,” Ars Electronica Origin: Sensing Place Placing Sense Symposium. (Linz, Austria, September 4, 2011). www.aec.at/origin/2011/07/27/sensing-place-placing-sense-symposium/ Urban Pixels. Exhibition. Architecture Media Biennale. Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna, Austria (October 7-31, 2010). “Alternative Narratives for Lighting Future Cities,” Face to Face – The Rhetoric Functions Of Media Architecture, Media Architecture Biennale (Vienna, Austria, October 9, 2010). “Infrastructures of Imageability,” Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Meeting. Yale University (March 23, 2010). “Light Bodies.” Presentation at Philips Design (Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 2009). SIGGRAPH 2008 Design + Computation Gallery, complexity and craftsmanship, Curation Support, Panels Coordinator. (2008). www.flickr.com/photos/19592627@N00/sets/72157606977119776/, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1400385 Urban Pixels. Eden Court Theater, Inverness, Scotland & MIT Media Lab E15 Façade. (June 1-7, 2008; August 2008). Smart Cities and Urban Pixels. Society for Environmental Graphic Design. Conference. (Boston, MA, May 30-June 2, 2007). www.segd.org/conference/5185/2007-past-conference-summary.html “Reactive/Active Playground Project at the MIT Media Lab,” Held at Children and Locative Media, Mobile Bristol & Community Information Systems Centre UWE. Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bristol, UK (July 18, 2005).

Related Work Experience

Philips Color Kinetics, Burlington, MA, January 2012-today New role as City Innovations Manager created to lead the research and business development strategy around the impact of programmable LED lighting elements to create safe, inviting and responsive urban environments. Responsible for initiating R&D projects with internal and external experts as well as outreach efforts to a broad group of stakeholders like real-estate developers, urban planners, business improvement district leaders, and more.

Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Vienna, Austria, September 2011-December 2011 Conducted LEDs2go research project in collaboration with Bartenbach LichtLabor, Dynamic Transportation Systems (AIT) and Swareflex. As visiting researcher also participated in day-to-day activities….

Vienna University of Technology (TU), Vienna, Austria, September 2011-December 2011 Taught a design studio as a visiting lecturer in the city planning department (Städtebau Institut) at the TU. Students worked in groups of 3-4 on projects related to nighttime themes. They selected real sites in an area of the city near the TU and proposed architectural, technological and social interventions. The course was hosted by Prof. Markus Tomaselli.

Fluid Interfaces Group, Cambridge, MA, September 2010-August 2011 Postdoctoral associate researching future city lighting applications using programmable LED-based systems funded by and in collaboration with Philips ColorKinetics. Large-scale interactive media façade development for the MIT 150th Anniversary Festival of Art, Science, and Technology (FAST, http://arts.mit.edu/fast/lightbridge).

Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, June-August 2009 Internship with Alex S. Taylor in the Socio-Digital Systems group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. Developed and tested an audio-responsive hand-held light installation entitled Light Bodies which led to a research paper in Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference 2010. 12-week internship.

European Commission, Information Society & Media, April-July 2006 Participated in the official four-month stage program. Prepared three workshops in at the Directorate General for Information Society & Media at the European Commission in Brussels on innovation and public procurement for the Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures Directorate. Identified a network of key decisions makers from the EU25 addressing public sector technology procurement.

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Related Work Experience (cont.)

City of Cannes, Cannes, France, Summer 2003 Worked in the Office of Economic Development; prepared background dossier on the potential for developing a technopole in Cannes.

Telesis Corporation, New York, 2001-2002 Contributed to affordable housing development projects in Wilmington, DE, Pittsburgh, PA and other locations; analyzed government documents, newspapers, and other relevant information; assisted with coordinating and preparing financing applications; oversaw predevelopment studies like physical needs assessments; prepared document drafts for reports; completed initial neighborhood taking stock reports; identified community stakeholders; organized and attended meetings with community members, residents, and development partners.

Teaching Experience

Erstes Wiener Nachtentwerfen, Fall 2011 Customized World of Night course for the Vienna University of Technology.

Light Up MIT! Celebrating MIT's 150th Anniversary with Light Installations Undergraduate and graduate workshop to explore different aspects of a large-scale light installation planned for the Festival of Art Science and Technology in connection with MIT’s 150th Anniversary. http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/MAS/ia11/MAS.960/

World of Night: Interaction Design for Nighttime, Fall 2009, Fall 2010 Co-instructed new interdisciplinary course at the MIT Media Lab. Designed curriculum, developed lectures and activities, coordinated student final projects (full-scale on-site installations). Students focused on a location of their choice in Cambridge near MIT campus and the MIT campus itself. http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/MAS/fa10/MAS.962/

FAST Festival for Art Science and Culture, Fall 2010 Participated in guiding students developing projects for MIT’s 150th Anniversary. http://opera.media.mit.edu/fast/

Lighting Fundamentals for the Developing World, SP.775 D-Lab Energy, Guest Lecture, Spring 2010 Instructed a 3-hr seminar on lighting in the developing world. Prepared lecture, discussion topics, quiz.

New Century Cities, Faculty-Student Seminar and Conference, 2004-2005 Teaching assistant. Prepared syllabus, held lectures, invited guests, and prepared writing assignments. Worked with students and faculty to develop approach for international conference. Worked as research assistant for the preparation of an international conference on real estate, urban design and emerging technologies held at MIT in January 2005, http://web.mit.edu/cre/research/ncc/ncc.html

Cannes Reloaded, Fall Term 2003 Studio coordinator for interdisciplinary urban design and media arts research project.

MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Supervised undergraduate team of software developers in connection with the Urban Pixels project and the MIT 150th Anniversary LightBridge.

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Service

Light for pedestrian spaces. Committee. Illuminating Engineering Society, 2015-ongoing. Responsive Environments Group Affiliate, MIT Media Lab Theatrum Mundi Collaboration between New York University and the London School of Economics, includes forthcoming project entitled Configuring Light, http://theatrum-mundi.org/ Co-Chair Short Papers, Program Committee, Int’l Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2010, Barcelona, Spain, www.iua.upf.es/idc2010/ Founding member of Writing Cities graduate student organization of MIT-Harvard-LSE urbanists. Coordinated first conference held in Cambridge, MA 2008, http://writingcities.net Program Committee Member ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children Reviewer for ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Graduate student life activities in collaboration with MediaWomen’s group and MIT Museum Resident Advisor, Wilson College, Princeton University (1999-2001)

Professional Associations

Association for Computing Machinery, www.acm.org Illuminating Engineering Society, www.iesna.org Austrian Scientists in North America (ASCINA), www.ascina.at

Skills

Research skills: iterative design research; strong qualitative research methods (observation of place, interviews), basic quantitative research methods; excellent written and oral communication; MIT COUHES (Committee on the Use of Human as Experimental Subjects) certification. Software: Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver), Rhino, Eagle, basic Drupal/ PHP, Basic video editing (Final-cut Pro). Prototyping: Arduino platform. 3D-printer, laser-cutter. Languages: Fluent in German, English, and French; basic Italian.