John A. Bruce

John A. Bruce is Associate Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, The New School, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program and the Consortium for Transdisciplinarity. His work is informed through explorations of presence, proximity, temporality, participation, exchange, identification, reciprocity, invitation, care and hospitality. He recently co-led the End of Life project (films, installations, and research), the result of 6 years spent with 5 people at various stages of dying. His recent monograph is Participatory Design and Social Transformation: Images and Narrative of Crisis and Change. He was a 2015/16 Fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School.