EDUCATION
University of Oxford
Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art
Oxford, UK
2018 - Present
Parsons School of Design
MFA Design and Technology
New York City, USA
2013 - 2015
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Lahore, Pakistan
2012 - 2013
PUBLICATIONS
St. Anne’s Academic Review
Film Review, “The Favourite”,
2019
The Aleph Review
Short Story, “Vulgar Display”,
2019
Journal of Media Practice,
Vol. 14 (3). London: Routledge.
Like Life Itself: Blurring the Distinction Between Fiction and Reality in the Four Broken Hearts Transmedia Storyworld.
2014
LUMS Business Review
Editor-in-Chief, Art Director
2012 - 2013
The Daily Egg
Design Writer
2011 - 2013
RESIDENCIES, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
Co-Net_ and Imaginaria Art Residency
Castellon, Spain,
May 2019
Royal College of Art
NAFAE Student Research Conference, “Living Research: The Urgency of the Arts”
Speaker, Panelist: Possible Lives
London, United Kingdom,
March 2019
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
Speaker, Panelist: Like Life Itself/Four Broken Hearts
Montreal, Canada,
March 2015
StoryCode
Demo Presentation, Four Broken Hearts
New York, NY,
November 2014
37th Annual Fulbright Conference
Speaker, ‘Future of Storytelling: The Four Broken Hearts Case Study’
Washington D.C.,
October 2014
Future of Storytelling Summit
Invited Participant
New York City,
October 2014
Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab
Participant, Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things
New York City,
September 2014
NYC Media Lab Summit
Demo Presentation, Four Broken Hearts
New York, NY,
September 2014
Reboot Stories Lab
Participant
New York, NY.
June 2014
Audi: Designing Interactions 2020 - 25
Participant
Paris, France.
May 2014
Fulbright: Arts and Civic Engagement
Participant
Philadelphia, PA.
May 2014
AWARDS AND HONORS
Inger Lawrance Award
Ruskin School of Art / University of Oxford
2019
New Media Film Festival
Official Selection/Los Angeles Premiere of Four Broken Hearts
2015
Fulbright Scholarship
2013 - 2015
Parsons Dean’s Merit Scholarship
2013 - 2015
Hearst Fellowship
2014
Re3 StoryHack Humanizing Data Award
2013
LUMS Young Writers Workshop & Short Story Contest
Selected Writer, Mentored by Mohsin Hamid
2012
Intel National Science Olympiad
Best Computer Science Project
2005 - 2007
WORK
Freelance Designer, Marketer and Writer
www.babarsuleman.com
2009 - Present
United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP)
Identity and UX Design for Fulbright Alumni
2018
National University of Science and Technology (NUST)
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Lecturer (Visiting)
Full-time: Feb - Sept 2018; Visiting: Spring 2016, Spring 2017
National College of Arts (NCA)
Department of Visual Communication Design
Assistant Professor (Visiting)
2016
Counsell
Mobile App
Creator and UX Designer
2016 - 2017
Epidemia Designs
Marketing and Design Consultant
2015 - 2016
Four Broken Hearts
Transmedia (Film, Web, Theater, Spatial Experiences) Creator and Director
2014 - Present
Mooods
Mobile App Prototype User Experience Design
2014
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Film
Director and Writer
2014
Shaheen
VP User Experience Design
2013
Unilever
Intern, Brands (Marketing)
2013
Freelance Designer and Writer Web, Print, Copy
2009 - 2013
Big Pond Film Critic
2011 - 2012
AIESEC
Identity Design for National Strategic Conference 2010
Headroom Learning
Lead Script Writer for ‘SAT Success 2010’ 2010