Royal
College of Art, London. Featured
presentation, at the international symposium, Designing
For Our Future Selves.
Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea. Featured
presentation at meeting of Korea Industrial Design Society.
International
Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID)
in cooperation with UNESCO. Kristiansund, Norway. Invited
participant asone of 35 international designers for
the ICSID Interdesign: Design for Elderly,
a 12-day international workshop.
China Industrial
Design Association (CIDA) Congress,
Taipai and Tainan, Taiwan. Invited
address presented at the 22nd International
Seminar on Industrial Design.
American Society of Aging (ASA),
San Francisco, CA. Invited address delivered at Syracuse
University Series in Gerontology Education, Bridge
to the 21st Century.
Keynote Addresses
2006 WITHIT Eduction Conference, "Women in Business: Strategies for Success." This Charlotte, NC address explored the relation between future life stage trends and the transgenerational house.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Keynote address, “Industrial Design Accommodations: A Transgenerational Perspective,” delivered at A Housing Challenge: Impact of an Aging Society, a regional conference on elderly housing sponsored by the Buffalo Office, Region II, Syracuse, NY.
Industrial Designers Society of America. Keynote address, “Transgenerational Design: A Promise for Equality,” delivered at Southern District Conference on Transgenerational and Disability Design, Helen, GA.
Industrial
Designers Society of America. “Views Through a Wide-angle Lens,” delivered to the 1998 National Conference on Design Education, sponsored by the the IDSA and University of California, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.
Tokyo Gas Company, Ltd. Featured speaker, "Transgenerational Design: at the Heart of It All." Delivered at The 2001 Universal Design International Symposium sponsored by the Living Design Center, Tokyo.
Design Award Programs
Tylenol/Arthritis Foundation Student
Design Awardsprogram for
Age Wave, Inc., sponsored by the Arthritis Foundation
and the McNeil Consumer Products Company.
New Products for Mature
Markets. Annual
judge for design competition sponsored by the
American Society on Aging, conducted by ProMatura,
Oxford, MS.
Projects
AARP The Magazine featured "This
Bold House, an experimental transgenerational
residence for independent living.
Universal Kitchen Project. Advisor to
project developed by the Rhode Island School of Design
and exhibited at New York’s Cooper Hewitt National
Design Museum.
Unlimited
by Design. Advisor to
traveling exhibition of approximately one hundred-fifty
contemporary products, services, and environments that
address the concepts of
universal and transgenerational design.
Invited
Lectures, Addresses
Royal
College of Art and the European Design
Age Network (DAN). Invited
lectures in England, the Netherlands, Ireland,
and Finland as “the first expert in the International
Guest Lecture Series by World Experts.”
University
of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM.
Annual graduate seminars on transgeneratonal
design for Department of Occupational Therapy,
School of Medicine.
International
Congress of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID)
by NORDMØRE LOKALTV, Kristiansund, Norway. Comments
and designs included in video production, Designing
for the Elderly.
Invited address, “Transgenerational
Design: An Emerging Design Priority,” at 1st universal
design conference and exhibition, Universal Design:
Access to Daily Living, sponsored by the Pratt Center
for Advanced Design Research; Cooper-Hewitt National
Museum of Design; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine,
Columbia University of Physicians and Surgeons.
New York, NY.
The
Wall Street Journal. Quoted
by John Peterson in “Best designs for elderly appeal
to young.”
U.S. News and World
Report. Student projects described in “Small
gadgets that can change lives.”
Interviews
USA Today. Quoted about transgenerational design in the article "2046: A Boomer Odyssey" by Marco r. della Cava.
Dwell. Quoted about transgenerational design in the article "Rethinking Senior Housing " by Amara Holstein..
Public Broadcasting
System. Interviewed
on Marketplace® by Jo Giese about transgenertional
accommodation for Baby Boomers and beyond.
Metropolis magazine.
Interviewed by Martin C. Peterson, Executive Editor
about the future of universal design.
Mature
Focus Radio, a national Mutual Radio
production of AARP. Interviewed about transgenerational
design for transportation.
National
Public Radio, Talk of the Nation,® hosted
by Ray Suarez. Invited
guest on one-hour program discussing Ageless
Design.
KANW Public
Radio, Albuquerque, NM, hosted by Georgia
Armijo. Invited guest on half-hour program discussing “Designing
our Lives for an Aging Population.”
Marriott
Corporation. Interview
about transgenerational design appeared in Executive
Memo, monthly newsletter to 18,000 hospital,
college and business executives.
National Public
Radio.
Interviewed by Bob Edwards on "Morning Edition." Discussed
transgenerational design and its impact on automobile design.
Bristol-Myers
Annual Report. Interviewed for “America
Comes of Age,” a 7000-word special report.
