faculty profile
Scott Minneman invents, designs, engineers, fabricates, and exhibits novel physical interactive devices in public spaces. After earning architecture and engineering degrees from MIT (MS and BS) and Stanford (PhD), he worked at the think-tank Xerox PARC for 15 years, and co-founded Onomy Labs, Inc. – a make-tank for interactives. He has been commissioned to create interactive projects all over the world, including Mexico City, Singapore, Denver, San Francisco, Nashville, Jersey City, Irving (TX), and more. His public interactive art commissions include St. Petersburg (RU), Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Jose, and Goleta, among others. Blending art with technology, he creates innovative forms of immersive, interactive storytelling.
- The Magic Story Table, St. Petersburg, CEC ArtsLink & ProArte Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2011
- Farallones Tourist Viewer (permanent installation), California Academy Of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2010
- Papalote Museum for Children (multiple permanent installations), Mexico City, Mexico, 2003 - 2011
- Art and Innovation: The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program (Chapter), Leonardo Press, 1999.
- The Social Construction of a Technical Reality: Empirical Studies of Group Engineering Design Practice, Xerox Corporation, 1992.
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Design, Stanford University
- MS & BS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BS, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
