Faculty

Alicia Tam Wei

Assistant Professor of Product and Industrial Design

Email
tam@newschool.edu

Office Location
Parsons Faculty Hotseat

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Alicia Tam Wei

Profile

Alicia Tam Wei is a design strategist and educator. She is passionate about fusing creative ideas with emerging technologies to develop innovative products. An experienced product manager and UX designer for technology start-ups, her product design work has been featured at Wanted Design (NYC) and the Surface Design Show (London).

In addition to teaching at Parsons, Alicia is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor for Barnard + Columbia Architecture and a Critic for the Industrial Design department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She holds a BA in Architecture from Yale University, an MA from the Royal College of Art, and an MSc from Imperial College London in Innovation Design Engineering.


Degrees Held

MA Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art MSc Innovation Design Engineering, Imperial College London BA Architecture, Yale University


Current Courses


Future Courses

  • Open Play Lab
    PSCE 3070 - Spring 2027
  • Design Studio 6
    PUPD 4011 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

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