Select Recognition

• Pratt Institute, DEI Faculty Fellow, 2023-2024
• Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) Young Educator Award, 2023
• Pratt Institute, Distinguished Teacher Award (Finalist), 2023

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Amanda Huynh is a product and food designer working at the intersections of community-building, social innovation, and sustainable design. Amanda has worked and lectured across a variety of design disciplines in Vancouver, Bali, Shanghai, Barcelona, and London, England. The root of her research and practice is in liberatory, participatory design futures.

Ongoing research include:

• Food design and social practice 
• Designing for dignity in aging through the lens of food
• Tangible interfaces in co-design
• Embodied physical play in remote co-design technologies for children

Prior to her appointment at Ohio State, Amanda was Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She began her teaching career at her alma mater, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, teaching in the Faculties of Design + Dynamic Media, and Culture + Community. At ECUAD, she also managed the DESIS Lab, a research lab for Design for Social Innovation Towards Sustainability.

Active Community and University Service and Leadership

• Community: IDSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council Leader
• Department: Industrial Design Coordinator
• Department: Undergraduate Studies Committee
• Department: Events Committee
   

Selected Publications

• C. L. Hunt, K. Sun, K. Tseng, P. Balasubramaniyam, A. Druin, A. Huynh, D. Leithinger, J. Yip. 2024. Making a Metaphor Sandwich: Analyzing Children's use of Metaphor During Tabletop Telepresence Robot Supported Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 173–188. https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3656272
• C. L. Hunt, K. Sun, Z. Dhuliawala, F. Tsukiyama, I. Matkovic, Z. Schwemier, A. Wolf, Z. Zhang, A. Druin, A. Huynh, D. Leithinger, J. Yip. 2023. “Designing together, miles apart: A longitudinal tabletop telepresence adventure in online co-design with children”. In: ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC '23) (Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3589359