Michael Sturtz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Sturtz

American artist, fabricator, and designer

Date of Birth: 17-May-1969

Place of Birth: Walnut Creek, California, United States

Profession: designer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Michael Sturtz (born May 17, 1969 in Walnut Creek, CA) is a sculptor, designer, consultant, international speaker, innovator and facilitator of creative thinking.
He is the founder of The Crucible, a nonprofit industrial arts school in Oakland, California, United States, and served as its Executive Director from 1999 to 2011. Sturtz joined Stanford University's d.school in 2012, where he spearheaded a new artistic genre of live performance as director of the ReDesigning Theater Project.
In 2014, Sturtz founded Stanford’s Creative Ignition Lab at Autodesk in San Francisco.
This new lab explored the potential for visual, experiential, and embodied thinking to unlock the future of making and learning.
While at Autodesk, Michael joined the Applied Research & Innovation team at Pier 9, where he helped innovate new ways to utilize machine learning within robotic welding. In 2017 and 2018, Michael led the prototyping lab at Google X, where he led his own moonshot investigation and collaborated to pioneer the future of automated manufacturing.