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  • Samantha Bennett

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    sambennett@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Samantha Bennett

    Profile

    Sam Bennett is an ethnographer, maker, and designer with expertise in the fields of space and objects.  She believes in slow research that minimally impacts our planet and advocates for human well-being.  Currently, her own research focuses on consumerism, accumulation, and repair of objects. You can find her investigating people’s relationships to objects in the domestic space, making with mycelium and discarded materials, repairing meaningful artifacts, and running Clever/Slice, a global space to share in-progress creative work.  Past collaborators include Healthy Materials Lab, Hyloh, Perkins+Will, SITU, and Martha Stewart Living.  Sam also teaches at Pratt Institute and New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Interior Design and Industrial Design departments. In her free time, she darns and writes letters on one of her five typewriters.   samiamido.com

    Degrees Held

    MFA in Interior Design, Parsons School of Design

    BFA in Textiles and Art History, University of Kansas

    Current Courses

    Ethnography and Design
    PGID 5133, Spring 2024

    Past Courses

    Studio Lab: Textiles/Materials
    PUID 2110, Fall 2023

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