Robert Miles Kemp
One of today’s visionary thought leaders in interactive architecture and user experience, Miles has worked at the intersection of digital media, physical architecture and human interaction design for nearly two decades. Miles is the president of award-winning Variate Labs and is currently working on new projects that push the boundaries of interaction design in spatial environments.
Miles has worked on over a hundred projects spanning robotics, architecture, products, vehicles, user experience, software development and video game design. His career includes designing more than sixty built structures, ranging from homes to skyscrapers, and creating next-generation experiences for web, mobile, broadcast and other emerging interactive platforms. In the past, he has worked with many clients, including ABC, Blockbuster, BMW, BBC, Disney, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, Target, Televisa, Time Warner and many others.
Miles continues to be an active member of the design and development community through speaking events, publications and online media. In 2009, Miles co-wrote, Interactive Architecture, published by Princeton Architectural Press, the first comprehensive view of the history, present-day and future of interactive space. Miles also maintains the technology blog, Spatial Robots that discusses the future of technology in interactive environments. Widely recognized across many industries for his expertise, Miles has been featured in dozens of international publications and has been a keynote speaker at many conferences, spanning architecture, robotics and interactive media design.
Miles has a Master’s degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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