Christopher Rose to Speak at ASFD Market Dinner

April 4, 2013  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Special Events on April 5, 2013

Christopher Rose, Master of Design from London's Royal College of Art will speak at the American Society of Furniture Designers Spring Furniture Market dinner.

The dinner, open to ASFD members and all Market attendees with reservations, is April 22 at the High Point Country Club.

Rose currently teaches in the Graduate Furniture Design Program at Rhode Island School of Design. He has contributed seminars, workshops and master classes in design here in the United States as well as in India, Australia and the European Union.

Recently, his work has expanded into the broad area of arts-sciences-design collaborations. At RISD he works with other contributors, to a major NSF funded program, to improve practices for arts and sciences interactions in education. RISD is a key player in exploring and promoting a "STEAM" (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) approach to research, teaching and practice where exciting and effective intersections between design thinking, arts and humanities, and scientific insight are developed in studio collaborations.

Rose will speak about examples of recent work and ideas in this field to explain how design touches lives. His work in furniture design led Rose naturally into this approach of design thinking. The study of furniture design provides the natural domain for a close understanding of the most tangible forms and qualities of human interaction in our material environment.

For event reservations, please contact Christine Evans, ASFD executive director, at 910.576.1273 or by e-mail.