Yasmine Abbas is a French DPLG architect who holds a Master of Science
in Architecture Studies (SMArchS 2001) from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and a Doctor of Design (DDes 2006) from Harvard University
Graduate School of Design. In 1995, while pursuing an internship
at the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization
(UNESCO), she realized the importance of education and technology
for a culture of peace. Since then, the notions of cultural encounters
and mobilities have driven her designs and critical inquiries. At
MIT, her interactions with the Design Inquiry and Intelligent Kinetic
System groups led her to research the figure of "supermodernity",
the neo-nomad. At Harvard she focused on how digitally geared people
on the move reclaim a sense of belonging to places in the age of
multiple mobilities and digital technologies. In 2005 she founded
neo-nomad, a digital platform dedicated to design and mobility in
the digital world. Abbas teaches at Northeastern University and
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston.
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