Patrick, Whitney Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Cambridge

(Director/Dean from 1989 - 2016)Advisor to senior executives about design and innovation. Trustee of Global Heritage FundMember of advisory boards at leading universities throughout the word.From World Biographies:In the world of design, Patrick Whitney is known for his ongoing dedication to innovation and revolution. Forever investigating the ways that form impacts and interacts with function, Whitney uses his position as director of the Institute of Design, housed at Illinois Institute of Technology, and Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor of Design to influence design students' understanding of where and how design functions in the world. Specifically, Whitney has urged both aspiring and accomplished designers to reconsider the role of design in the 21st century. As the Institute of Design's webpage describes, "Whitney has published and lectured throughout the world about how to make technological innovations more humane, the link between design and business strategy, and methods of designing interactive communications and products." Thinking, specifically, about the ways in which changing design strategies can respond to increasingly flexible, as opposed to mass, production and increasingly global, rather than national, markets, Whitney's ideas about design lie at the intersection of art and business, education and humanitarianism. Whitney has devoted much time and energy to investigating how the design of everyday objects, such as cell phones, impacts the quality of everyday life. Described in an issue of Forbes as having "devoted his life to redesigning design itself—function over styling, substance over glitz," ...............Read more: http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Ra-Z/Whitney-Patrick.html#ixzz4DcwhHObZ

Chicago

Mfa

Bfa (With Distinction), Design