Mandy Mandelstein

Mandy Mandelstein is an experience designer, creative director, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and artist. As an Experience Design Lead at Gensler, she combines her background in storytelling with a human-centered design approach to create innovative experiences for the built environment -- from retail to arenas and airports to business innovation spaces and academic institutions. She is also the founder of Modular, a creative studio focused on telling personal stories with technology that feels human.

Mandelstein started her career designing for a very specific interface -- the cinema screen -- but as screens changed sizes and started showing up in more places, she began exploring new ways that story could live in the world. These explorations led her to work on projects with brands, agencies, production companies, and artists that span mediums from commercials and documentaries to AR/VR/XR and large-scale interactive installations. She has led award-wining work for a broad range of clients that include Dell, Headspace, TikTok, Deloitte, Walmart, IBM, NASA/The Smithsonian, and Minneapolis Institute of Art/3M.

Mandelstein is an Adjunct Professor at New York University (NYU) Polytechnic School of Engineering and former Thesis Project Industry Advisor at the School of Visual Arts. She received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in Film, TV, and New Media with a concentration on Directing and Cinematography and a minor in Entertainment Business.