Personal Details Surname: Mortezaei Name: Seyed-Reza Date of birth: 5 June 1967 E-mail: mortezaei AT iust.ac.ir Present Position: Senior Lecturer Department : Industrial Design Ph.D. , in Product Design University of Brighton (country: UK), date: January 2008 Tel: +98-21- 77451500-9 , 3236
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Education and Qualifications
i) University Degrees
· Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Product Design , University of Brighton, UK, 2003-2008
· Master of Art in Industrial Design, Tehran University, Iran, 1994-1997
· Bachelor of Art in Industrial Design, Art (Honar) University, Iran, 1990-1994
· Associate of Art in Technical Drawing, 1988-1985
ii) Sellected Short Course Certificates
“Certificate in Research Methodology, 2005” , held by the University of Brighton,
Brighton (UK), Summer 2005
Employment
· Senior Lecturer , Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Department of Industrial Design,
Iran University of Science and Technology, (The recruitment process began since June 2008 and
still in place).
· Furniture Designer, Shabakeh (Mesh); Interior and Furniture Design Manufacturing
Company, Bomehen-Tehran. Sep. 96-Sep. 03.
· Design Journalist , Dastavard Industrial Design Magazine; A quarterly publication of
Honar (Art) University, Tehran. Feb.91–Sep.03.
· Design Manager/Designer, Semak Commercial and Engineering Packaging Co. Ltd. Tehran,
Aug. 1997-Mar. 2001
Teaching Experiences
Selected Written Works
● Mortezaei, Seyed-Reza, 2003. Approaches in Street Furniture Design. Shahrdariha
Organisation: Tehran. (In Persian).
● Mortezaei, Seyed-Reza, 2001, Product Design, Honar (Art) University: Tehran.
(In Persian)
Conference Attendance
● Mortezaei, SR.; Katz, T.; Covill, D. and Morris, R. 2008. Investigating Assessment
of Designers’ Performance through the CETL – Creativity. The 10th Engineering and Product
Design Education Conference. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain,
4th-5th September 2008.
● Mortezaei, SR. and Katz, T., 2007. Meaningful Evaluation: A case study in Cultural and
Semitic Significance. In: Proceeding of the 3rd European Workshop on Design and Semantics
of Form and Movement (DeSForm07). Northumbria University12th-13th December 2007,
Newcastle, UK.
● Mortezaei, SR.; Katz, T. and Morris, R. 2005. Creativity in Education: Design
Technology – a platform for creative study? The 2nd Art & Industry Conference, Tehran:
November 9th-10th.
● Mortezaei, SR.; Katz, T. and Morris, R. 2005. Evaluating culture in product design by integrating
the SOLO Taxonomy and the circuit of culture. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International
Engineering and Product Design Conference. Napier University, Edinburgh: 15th -16th Sep 2005.
● Mortezaei, SR.; Katz, T. and Morris, R. 2005. Divergence in Design and Cultural Paradigms.
The third international conference on Globalisation and its Discontents University of Brighton,
Brighton: March 12th -13th.
● Mortezaei, SR.; Katz, T. and Morris, R. 2004. The necessity and importance of considering
cultural background of international students in design education. In: Proceeding of
the 2nd International Engineering and Product Design Education Conference. Delft University
2nd -3rd September, 2004.