# Georgios Grigoriadis > Product, Design, Emerging Technologies Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/georgios Georgios is a Product Lead, Designer and an Architect (of Things) working with emerging technologies, future making and fabrication. He uses digital, physical tools and machines to design and build spaces, objects, products, experiences, worlds, words and tell stories about them. ggrigoriadis.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Technologist - Design and Product Innovation @ Butlr Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Design Technologist @ Butlr Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### MDes Design Fellow @ Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley Jan 2023 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States The Master of Design (MDes) Alumni Design Fellows are distinguished graduates selected to maintain active engagement with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. The Fellows contribute specialized expertise through leading activities in their domains, participating in design critiques for MDes courses and showcases, engaging in community initiatives, and supporting program excellence through recruitment and admissions activities. ### Lecturer @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, CA At UC Berkeley's Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, I co-taught a graduate course where 40+ designers learned to build interactive products from the ground up, using sensors, actuators, single-board computers, cloud and edge AI, voice, vision and digital fabrication. I developed a modular IoT electronics kit for the course and led workshops connecting physical computing with AI integration. All of it grounded in a human-centered design process, from research to working hardware prototypes. ### Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Under the direction of Professor Dr. Randy Swearer. Graduate Student Instructor (TA) for the course DESINV 200: Design Frameworks. This course exposes students to the mindset, skillset and toolset associated with design, and interweaves practical design methods with readings and lectures on the history of design and technology. ### Jacobs Hall Makerspace Student Supervisor @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Student Supervisor in the Makerspace of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. Trained in tools, machines and techniques of digital fabrication, woodshop, metal shop, 3D printing and advanced prototyping. ### Creative Catalyst (Berkeley Master of Design) @ Berkeley Master of Design Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Creative Catalyst of the Master of Design (MDes) program at UC Berkeley. This role assists the MDes Executive Director and Jacobs Institute Public Programs and Communications Officer in creating media assets and managing the MDes program’s social media presence. Primary responsibilities include helping create program branding, graphics and videos for the website and social media channels. Creative and technical support on the website and public facing channels of the program. ### Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Graduate Student Researcher for the project "Artificialis Relievo, GAN-generated architectural sculptural relief". Under the direction of Kyle Steinfeld, Associate Director of Berkeley MDes and Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. ### Researcher / INNEN - Innovative Environments - Research Unit AUTh @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Thessaloniki, Greece Research Unit ‘INNEN – Innovative Environments’, is a research cluster conducting research projects and research-related academic and professional activities. It is responding to research, academic and educational needs for innovative approaches on architectural design, urban design, landscape design, environmental design and the design of experimental spatial arrangements in a broad array of scales. innen.arch.auth.gr ### Researcher / MindSpaces - Art-driven adaptive outdoors and indoors design @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 MindSpaces is a Lighthouse project belonging to the STARTS initiative. The main goal of the Starts is the inclusion of artists in innovation projects funded by the research programme Horizon 2020. 'MindSpaces - Art-driven adaptive outdoors and indoors design' is a 3-year research project financed by the European Commission STARTS/Lighthouse projects started on Jan 1st 2019. In this project artists, scientists, architects, engineers and technology experts closely collaborate under a novel working model scheme to propose innovative designs to address societal challenges faced by cities as they expand, and the evolving needs in functionality and emotional resonance of modern day workplace and housing interiors. Art has the capacity to transcend established theoretical and conceptual frames and act in cross-disciplinary ways, as it provides space for what is called “lateral” thinking, that is to address issues with an ‘out of the box’ approach. www.starts.eu www.mindspaces.eu ### Researcher / V4Design- Visual and textual content re-purposing for architecture, design and VR-games @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Thessaloniki, Greece The research project ‘V4Design – Visual and textual content re-purposing for architecture, design and VR-games’ is a Horizon2020 project, funded by the European Commission under the research call ‘ICT-20-2017 – Tools for smart digital content in the creative industries’. ‘V4Design’ promotes the re-use of visual and textual content, such as documentaries, images and their textual information so as to be repurposed and be used for inspiration to architectural and video game (VR) design. Visual content analysis is performed through 3D reconstruction and modelling, localization of objects in visual data, automated extraction of aesthetics, style information and language understanding from visual and textual data. 3D objects are further enhanced through semantics and explanatory text descriptions. The project is coordinated by the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH, Greece). The project consortium consists of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), University of Leuven (Belgium), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), McNeel Europe (Spain), architecture office Herzog de Meuron (Switzerland), Solaris Filmproduktion (Sweden), ArtFilms (United Kingdom), Deutsche Welle (Germany), Europeanna (Netherlands), Nurogames (Germany). v4design.eu ### Architect Engineer @ Hellenic Army Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greece Conscript mandatory service in the Hellenic Army. Briefly served as a member of the Ordnance Corps division and finally as an Engineer at the Engineers Arm of the Hellenic Army. ### Architect @ TTDZ Architects and Partners Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Thessaloniki, Greece - Worked on the design and planning of awarded competition entries, commissions, projects and research activities of the office - Developed the official website of the office; www.ttdz.gr ### Co-Founder @ xyzzy Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Thessaloniki, Greece Xyzzy was a creative collective of architects, artists, scientists and undergraduate students founded in 2015 in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Its purpose was to allow creative individuals to conduct experimentations in various fields. Xyzzy had a physical space in downtown Thessaloniki that functioned as an implementation platform for its activities. ## Education ### Master of Design (MDes) - College of Engineering in College of Environmental Design University of California, Berkeley ### Diploma of Architect Engineer (Integrated Masters) - Faculty of Engineering in Architecture and Architectural Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ggrigoriadis - Portfolio: https://ggrigoriadis.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/georgios JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/georgios/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25