Robert Kirkbride is the director of studio 'patafisico and associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he is thesis coordinator in the product design department. His work has been exhibited and published widely, appearing in Vogue, Chora 4, FUEL, Mark Magazine, C3, and the film XX/XY. He has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and architect-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy, and is an editorial board member of the Nexus Network Journal and commissioning editor for Alphabet City. He is a visiting critic at the University of Edinburgh and conducts design charrettes for educators at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.