Bio

Floor van de Velde is Head of Education at Vizcom, where she leads global education strategy. She has scaled Vizcom's education program to 30,000+ students and faculty across 200+ institutions worldwide, creating modular resources, ambassador programs, and curriculum partnerships that treat generative AI and design fundamentals like collaborators, not competitors.

She also teaches design research, innovation, and professional practice at UC Berkeley's Master of Design Program. Her career spans higher education, program management, and startup leadership. She has co-directed design labs, created inclusive curricula, mentored students, and helped educators integrate new approaches into their practice.

Floor holds a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology from MIT, where “antidisciplinarity” taught her to build things that don't fit neatly into existing fields.

Past Experience

Head of Education – Vizcom (2024 – )

Senior Design Manager – Google (2022 - 2023)
Working with Charcoalblue Experience to create creative capital projects technologically-advanced environments for Google.

Part-time Faculty, UC Berkeley, Master of Design Program (2021 – present)
Teach graduate seminars in design research and innovation. Lead an industry speaker series on design and emerging technology, support student professional development, and collaborate on curriculum planning and evaluation.

Professor of the Practice, Tufts University School of Fine Arts (2014 – 2021)
Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in visual art, digital fabrication, and early AI/creativity intersections. Drove collaboration between Fine Arts and Engineering to advance design-tech capabilities.