Sima is an industrial designer, artist, and researcher passionate about jewelry and wearable objects. Her approach blends traditional fine jewelry craftsmanship with modern technology and digital fabrication techniques. She uses jewelry as a medium to reflect on and explore human challenges in a creative and thought-provoking way. She holds an MFA in Design from the University of California, Davis, and a BFA in Industrial Design, from Tehran

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Design / 2019 – 2021  University of California, Davis, United States
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design / 2005 – 2010, Tehran, Iran

Academic Experiences

Lecturer | Department of Art, University of Maryland, College Park, MD | Aug 2023- Present

Lecturer | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Jan 2022- Jun 2023

Teaching Assistant | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Sep 2020 – Jun 2022

Digital Fabrication Lab Trainer | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Sep 2021- December 2021

Makerspace Teaching Assistant | Department of Design, University of California, Davis, CA | Sep 2021- Jun 2022

Awards and Honors

Served as a jury member for the Savageau Award, evaluating the best Art and Design theses at UC Davis | 2022, 2023

Aesthetic Award of ISWC Design Exhibition | 2021

UC Davis dean’s graduate fellowship, UC Davis, USA | 2021

Provost’s First Year Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis, USA | 2019

3rd Prize Winner, COW Design Festival, Dnipro, Ukraine | 2019

1st Prize Winner, National Jewelry Design Week, Tehran, Iran | 2018

2nd Prize Winner, COW Design Festival, Dnipro, Ukraine | 2017

3rd Prize Winner, Roshd National Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran | 2015

Iranian National Universities Art Entrance Competition, Ranked 23rd among 60,000+ participants | 2004

Exhibition

Speculative Tools for a Warming Planet:

Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain | 2022

Ars Electronica Festival, Austria | 2022

Dutch Design Week, Netherlands | 2022

“What If …”, Group exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California | 2021

National Jewelry Design, Tehran University gallery of art, Tehran, Iran | 2018

COW Design Festival Exhibition, Dnipro, Ukraine | 2017 & 2019

Painting Exhibition, Baneh, Iran | 2000

Publication

“CJ-2050: Body Cooling Wearable Technology” at International Symposium on Wearable Computers | 2021

“BioSparks: Jewelry as Electrochemical Sweat Biosensors with Modular, Repurposing and Interchangeable Approaches” at International Symposium on Wearable Computers | 2023

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