Nenad Katic

Biography

Nenad Katic is an architect, designer and software engineer, graduated with honors from Faculty of Architecture (Belgrade University) in 2001. His work spans many disciplines: over the course of 20 years he has designed buildings, including experimental housing and a museum, led the ground-breaking development of world’s first digital city, and crafted virtual experiences from websites to interactive installations, business apps and video games. From 2002-2007 he worked as a Director of Technology at Screampoint (now Cityzenith), where he channeled company vision into a range of digital products, including 5D City, world’s first urban administration software to be officially adopted by a city government, in Wuhan (China) in 2006. Notable list of clients include City of Wuhan, Luwan District Shanghai, IBM, Apple, Nokia and Financial District of Hong Kong. As a freelance architect, he designed a number of buildings and art installations that won public and critical acclaim, including Serbian National Prize for Art Ranko Radovic for highest achievement in art (2007, with B. Pavić). In 2015, he founded Nikokoneko, design and development studio that crafts digital experiences for premium real-estate projects such as Apple Campus 2, SFMOMA extension, Salesforce Tower and Lucila Packard Children’s Hospital. In his personal research, he explores the psychology of creativity and application of virtual reality technology to education.

Research Interest

Architecture Art & Design