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Associate Professor

Jawn LIM

Associate Professor
Doctor of Design, Harvard University, United States
Cluster:
Business, Communication and Design
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SIT Appointments

  • Associate Professor
    – Present
  • Deputy Director, Office of the Vice President (Planning)
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  • Deputy Programme Director, GSofA BA (Hons) Interior Design
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  • Assistant Professor
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Education

  • Doctor of Design
    Harvard University , United States
  • Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation and Technology
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management , United States
  • Masters of Architecture
    Southern California Institute of Architecture , United States
  • Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
    National University of Singapore , Singapore
  • Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment in Adult Education and Facilitation
    Institute of Adult Learning , Singapore
  • Certified Competitive Intelligence Professional Level I & II
    Academy of Competitive Intelligence, Boston , United States

Achievements

  • Society for the History of Technology Dibner Fund Grant
  • Capability Development Grant, DesignSingapore Council
  • Harvard GSD Advanced Studies Program Grant
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  • Harvard GSD Teaching Fellowship
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  • Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Conference Grant
  • National Science Foundation of America Travel Grant
  • Harvard GSD Doctor of Design Grant
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  • DesignSingapore Council Creative Industries Scholarship
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  • SCI-Arc Graduate Scholarship
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Professional Memberships

  • Consultant, OCBC
    – Present
  • Board Advisor, Precursor
    – Present
  • Harvard Club of Singapore
    – Present
  • Member, The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
    – Present
  • Hon Sec, Interior Design Confederation of Singapore
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  • Member, MIT Enterprise Forum
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  • Member, The Society for Social Studies of Science
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  • Member, The Society for the History of Technology
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Corporate Experience

  • Adjunct Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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  • Assistant Director, DesignSingapore Council, Singapore
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  • Adjunct Studio Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  • Teaching Fellow & Studio Instructor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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  • Project Manager & Senior Designer, Hetzel Design, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Project Designer, Frank Gehry & Associates, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Architectural Designer, Arquitectonica, Los Angeles, CA
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Research Interests

  • Science-Fiction Design
  • Smart Technologies
  • User Experience Design
  • Architecture
  • Product Design
  • Business Models
  • Innovation Management
  • Systems Dynamics
  • War-gaming
  • Futurology
  • Strategic and Competitive Analysis

Journal Papers

  • Featured Projects in Geometry of the Unconscious by Jyanzi Kong
     

  • “Lost in Translations” Singapore Architecture Issue 251
     

  • “Lost in Translations” 306090, Princeton Architectural Press
     

  • “Processing Design Ingredients” Singapore Architect Issue 245

Conferences

  • Panel chair for “Technoscientific Practices, Constructions and Imaginaries” at the 2011 Annual Meeting of 4S and presented his paper “Concept Design: Technoscientific Imaginaries from Hollywood.”

  • Presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

  • Presented “Anime Robots and Robotics in Science, Technology, and Society”, at The Society of Social Studies of Sciences (4S) Annual Meeting 2010, Tokyo University

  • Presented paper “Sculpting Catastrophes: Concept Design and Technoscientific Imagination of Science Fiction Cinema” and as part of the panel “Visionaries and the Technological Imaginary."