Joe Luciani — Design & Fabrication
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Joe Luciani is a designer and fabricator who builds the places where people learn to make things. He studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and product design and development at Northwestern University, and has spent fifteen years running fabrication shops: IIT's IdeaShop, Northwestern's Segal Design Institute, and, for nearly eight years, UConn's Proof of Concept Center, where he partnered with more than twenty manufacturers. Since 2024 he has been a Design & Manufacturing Instructor in UConn's College of Engineering, helping turn the Innovation Shop into a hands-on space every first-year engineer comes through.
His favorite question on any shop floor: what's the task everyone hates doing? He's still designing environments. They just happen to be ones where engineers learn how to make things. This site is a working archive of his design and fabrication work.