Founder and Chief Excitement Officer, PhD, Design and Computation, MIT

Saeed Arida is the Founder and Chief Excitement Officer of NuVu Studio. Prior to NuVu, Saeed worked as an architect and designer. He received his PhD in architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his doctoral research examined the intricacies of the creative process to understand what creativity is and how an educational environment can nurture creative learning. The architectural studio pedagogy informed this research that ultimately evolved into NuVu Studio. For the past few years, Saeed has been advising many schools on how to transition into a creative curriculum.