Carlos Teixeira

Carlos Teixeira is the Charles L. Owen Professor in Design at the Institute of Design (ID), where he focuses on Systems Design and teaches graduate courses and advises doctoral students on the strategic use of design capabilities in complex spaces of innovation. He is also Director of the Action Labs and has his own ID Action Lab focused on Sustainable Solutions.

Carlos is the founder of ORGE Innovation Consulting, which advises global leaders in organizations on how to build the know-how to innovate through design capabilities and strategies.

Carlos received a doctorate in design from ID in 2002. Previous to his PhD, he received a master’s and bachelor’s degree in design from Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Before joining ID in 2016, Carlos served as a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York (2003–09), where he was instrumental in developing undergraduate and graduate programs in strategic design and transdisciplinary design. In 2014 he received the Distinguished Teaching Award by The New School for his innovative pedagogy in graduate design studios and projects.