Summary
Mandy Mandelstein is an experience design leader and creative technologist with 11 years of practice fusing storytelling, spatial design, and emerging media to make content move off screens and into real-world experiences. As Experience Design Lead and DXD Practice Area Leader at Gensler and co-founder of Luxloop/modular(a), she has led cross-functional teams on museum, retail, and corporate projects that blend AR/VR, interactive installations, and cinematic media. Her work—exhibited globally and featured in major outlets—pairs rigorous design thinking with rapid prototyping and bespoke creative code to invent new tools for context-aware narrative. She also teaches and mentors future practitioners, having developed a graduate course on Context Aware Media at NYU and advised MFA students at SVA. Notably, she brings a filmmaker’s eye and production discipline to experiential tech, bridging large-scale commercial production processes with experimental R&D. Based in Austin, she thrives at the intersection of art, architecture, and technology to increase engagement in cultural and commercial spaces.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Film TV and New Media, BFA Film TV and New Media at New York University
Rapid Prototyping - Visible Futures Lab, Rapid Prototyping - Visible Futures Lab at School of Visual Arts
35mm Cinematography and Directing, 35mm Cinematography and Directing at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
3rd Ward
Sign languages