Melissa Mongiat is best known for her work on a series of public interactive installations created for London’s Royal Festival Hall, which led to her selection by Wallpaper* magazine in 2007 as one of the world’s ten breakthrough designers. In Montréal, The Good Conspiracy, a multi-platform project she created while creative director at Amuse, was presented at the Biennale 2009. The ARTVscope, also created with Amuse, won many distinctions recently.
Melissa is also involved in research work about participatory design with Kelsey Snook. The results have been presented notably at the Royal College of Art in London, the Banff New Media Institute and the Instituto di Diseno Europeo in Barcelona, as workshops and conferences, and led to the creation of Good Participation.
In November 2010, Melissa Mongiat represented Montréal at the Design Biennale in Saint-Étienne, France. She was also recently awarded the Phyllis Lambert Design Award by the city of Montréal, along with Mouna Andraos.
Melissa Mongiat holds a BA in Graphic Design from the Université du Québec à Montréal and an MA with distinction in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She continues to visit both institutions as lecturer or teacher.
— — —
Photos of previous work can be seen here.