Lee-Sean HuangAlso teaches Communications at:
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M.S. in Interactive Media Design, New York University, 2010
B.A. in Government, Harvard University, 2003
Professor Lee-Sean Huang is an Adjunct Instructor at NYU, The New School, and the School of Visual Arts. He's also a designer, a podcaster, an educator outside of the classroom, and a practitioner of capoeira, a Brazilian martial art disguised in dance.
Lee-Sean was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He was the first member of his family to complete their undergraduate studies in the United States — he attended Arizona State for a year before transferring to and graduating from Harvard.
After graduation, Lee-Sean taught English in Japan for three years and then worked in non-profit communications for several groups in New York, including Human Rights Watch. Missing teaching, he enrolled in the Master's program in interactive media design at NYU so that he could return to the classroom at the college level. While teaching since 2011, he's consulted for the United Nations Department of Political Affairs and founded Foossa, a design and strategy consultancy focused on service design and community-building where he also teaches workshops about design, storytelling, and entrepreneurship.
Lee-Sean's teaching experiences includes intro-level web design, masters-level design thinking and storytelling at NYU and a Master's level design and social innovation course at the School of Visual Arts. Lee-Sean also designed the curriculum and teaches online courses for the Design Leadership for Business certificate program at The New School.
My parents owned a computer store, where I would work during the summers when I was a teen. I remember drawing blueprints to redesign one of the storage areas, which might be my first design. As a teenager I also had the chance to go to after school programs in computer programming and video production that were offered by our local university. This expanded my tools for making and creating
I'm getting back into doing street photography and going deep into the history of the medium and the work of the greats like Garry Winogrand, Robert Frank, Brassaï, and Cartier-Bresson. I have been taking pictures for a long time, for fun and for my design research work.
Oda Sensei from my intensive Japanese class. She was demanding and had high expectations, but also incredibly generous and devoted to her students. She invited us into her home to try homestyle Japanese food, we got to experience the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, and went on a field trip to the Boston Children's Museum to see an authentic Japanese house that had been shipped over piece by piece from Kyoto.
I'm revisiting Susan Sontag's book of essays, On Photography. It was written in the 1970s but her thinking about the photographic medium is still relevant in an age of Instagram and TikTok.
Burritos. I grew up in Arizona, so we had tons of Mexican food. Burritos have everything you would want in a filling, portable package.
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