Seyed Moslem Tabatabaei

Seyed M. Tabatabaei is a multidisciplinary Designer, Media Content Creator and a Researcher who investigates on the analogy between 'Experience Designing' and 'Film Directing'. He holds a BSc in Architecture and MFA in Animation and has a decade of professional experience in both domains. As a concept designer and 3d visualizer, he has worked in a number of architectural consultancies in Dubai and has been working as a self-employed designer in Tehran. His projects ranges from the architectural facade to interior and exhibition space designs. He has also devoted hundreds of hours to teaching architectural visualization in arts and engineering institutions. As a filmmaker, he participated in production of a few feature films as a director assistant, editor and photographer. His short animation Light Sight has been officially selected in almost three hundred festivals around the world and has won more than sixty national and international awards. As a researcher, he attempts to overlap the narrative qualities of the cinema, interactivity of the game design and spatiality of the architecture within the realm of Mixed-Reality. He aims to investigate and propose speculative cinematic experiences. He looks forward to fruitfully unite his passions in research creation activities within the multidisciplinary atmosphere offered by MDes. program and Concordia University in general. Current key interests: mixed-realities, interactive narratives, speculative cinemas and 3D visualization