Design x Technology Lecture: Pouya Ahmadi

Join Lawrence Technological University’s College of Architecture and Design on Tuesday, October 24th at 12:30pm ET for another innovative Fall 2023 Design x Technology lecture with Associate Professor of Graphic Design at RISD, Pouya Ahmadi.

This talk focuses on the intertwined material and typographic manifestations of language and power through publishing, installations and lecture-performances. Pouya is interested in the transnational Southwest Asian articulation of and complicated relationship with modernity beyond its Western/Euro-American stricture. His practice explores notions of hybridity through projects that examine and materialize the sociopolitical and cultural conditioning of displaced bodies and the liminal states they traverse. He is interested in modes of production and dissemination that can engage and articulate layered and multivalent identities, both individual and collective.

This lecture is free and open to the public. As part of CoAD’s Design x Technology Lecture Series, guests may watch online or on campus. Register for the location/viewing details.

About Pouya:

Pouya Ahmadi is a designer, artist, and associate professor of graphic design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the founder of Studio Pouya Ahmadi and the editor, designer, and publisher of Amalgam — an independent journal that explores the intersection of typography, language, and power. Amalgam has been recognized by AIGA, the Society of Typographic Arts, UIC Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, and UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (CADA) Dean’s Research Prize. Pouya has presented at venues including Typographics, Adobe Live and TypeCon, and his work has been exhibited at the Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design, Dubai Design Week, AIGA Eye on Design, the Type Directors Club and East Sea International Art Biennale, among others. He served as an editorial board member of Neshan magazine in Iran from 2009–20. Pouya holds an MA in image research and an MAS in visual communication from the University of Applied Sciences and the Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and MDes in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Chicago.