Ben Cerveny
Education
University of California, Berkeley
BA, Philosophy of Science, Rhetoric 1989-01-01 - 1994-01-01Work Experience
Foundation for Public Code
Current
Foundation for Public Code
Berggruen Institute
Current
Berggruen Institute
Antikythera
2022-05-01 - 2023-01-01
Antikythera
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
2016-10-01 - 2019-10-01
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
Samsung Electronics
2013-03-01 - 2016-03-01
Samsung Electronics
Arup
2012-11-01 - 2015-11-01
Arup
Stupid Fun Club
2012-11-01 - 2015-01-01
Stupid Fun Club
Gray Area
2010-01-01 - 2014-01-01
Gray Area
Bloom Studio Inc
2010-07-01 - 2012-11-01
Bloom Studio Inc
Stamen
2005-06-01 - 2010-07-01
Stamen
Skills
Summary
For over 30 years I have worked as an executive, strategist, and designer in the context of operating systems, media applications, web services, products, the built environment, and digital games. Currently, I'm building a Foundation to help cities and other public organizations develop and share what we call Public Code, software and policy that is open, legible, and useful at the civic scale. Before this, I was a Design Fellow at Samsung, leading a project on room-scale programmable environments. Previously, I helped design the massively multiplayer game that became Flickr [and also named it], founded the Experience Design Lab at Frogdesign, and was CEO of Bloom Studios, whose data visualization iPad app Planetary was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.
