The New School Appoints Bruce Nussbaum Professor of Innovation and Design

The New School has announced that Bruce Nussbaum, one of the leading thinkers and writers about the intersections of innovation and design, has been appointed Visiting Professor of Innovation and Design. He will work broadly across The New School, with a faculty "home base" in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design, which houses degree programs in design and management, integrated design and environmental studies.

"Bruce will work across the university to catalyze new areas of research, study, and other forms of engagement that bring together design and social research, as well as management, urban policy, environmental studies, and sustainability," said New School President Bob Kerrey.

Nussbaum is best known for his continuing role as an editor, writer, and blogger about design and innovation for BusinessWeek. He was named by I.D. magazine as one of the "forty most influential people in design," and in 2008 he was a Finalist for the "Design Mind" National Design Award by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He was recently appointed to the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design.

"The New School's strengths in design and the social sciences provide enormous possibilities for finding innovative solutions to some of the most complex global issues facing society in the 21st century," said Nussbaum. "I am looking forward to working with the students, faculty and leadership of The New School in helping them fully tap into the amazing resources to be found at the university."

Since 1977, Nussbaum has held a number of substantial writing and editorial roles at BusinessWeek where he currently serves as Contributing Editor for Innovation. His voice at BusinessWeek has reverberated widely. He is founder of the Innovation & Design BusinessWeek Online channel, founder and editor of IN: Inside Innovation, a quarterly innovation supplement, and blogger on NussbaumOnDesign. He appears weekly online in the video feature "Ask The Innovation Guru." Mr. Nussbaum is responsible for the coverage of the annual Industrial Designers Excellence Awards, the BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Awards for architecture, and "The World's Most Innovating Companies" survey. He will continue to write, edit, and blog about design for BusinessWeek concurrent with his new position at The New School.

Mr. Nussbaum is the author of two books: The World after Oil: the Shifting Axis of Power and Wealth and Good Intentions, an inside look at medical research on AIDS. As an essayist and commentator on economic and social issues, his writing has appeared in The Best Business Stories of the Year-2002 and The Best American Political Writing--2004. He holds a BA in political science from Brooklyn College and an "ABD" in political science from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines.

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