RSA-US Student Design Awards Ceremony

Saturday, April 27, 2013, 2 - 6pm

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The RSA-US Student Design Awards is an undergraduate competition to inspire collaborative design-led social change in the areas of architecture, interiors, urban transit, industrial design, fashion and textiles connects design students and faculty with industry needs. Promoting sustainable innovation for social good: This new awards program inspires socially inclusive, change-making design that cuts across traditional boundaries.

Presentations by:

1. Andrew Whalley (GRIMSHAW) Transportation Design + Energy
2. Hazel Clark (Parsons) New approaches to Fashion Design
3. Matt Waldman (NOOKA) New Horizons in Product Design
4. Scott Burnham (INDEPENDENT) Retooling Urban Design
5. Jennifer Varekamp (MASSART) Fabrics & Textile Design
6. Eoin Billings & Paul Leonard (BJD) Applied Industrial Design
7. Indy Johar & Alice Fung (00:/ & HUB Westminster) video: Social Venture Design 
8. Katie Pretzel, Tracey Woosley & Susan Sheffield (TARGET) Retail Design
9. Penny Egan (Fulbright Commission) Education, Design and Globalization
10. Shashi Caan (SCC & IFI) Sustainable Interior Design
11. Kevin Owens (Design Principal for LOCOG / London 2012) Rethinking the Mega-Event 
12. Steven Greenberg (Pointcarre) Software for a new generation of Textile Designers
 

Followed by a round-table with all speakers, moderated by Chairman of the RSA-US Design Awards Professor David Turnbull focusing on plans for 2014

Awards Ceremony, Chaired by David Turner for RSA-US

Awards reception in Lower Lobby 41 Cooper Square 

More information on: http://sda.rsa-us.org/ and find the Awards program on Facebook

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) was founded in 1754 to: embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve our manufactures, and extend our commerce.  Four of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were RSA members and Benjamin Franklin actively supported the work of the RSA.

 

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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