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In mid 2002, RIT industrial design students Sam Aquillano, Laura Fowler, and Donald Lehman decided to take a more active role in their education. They started to organize design events at their school; each one becoming larger and more successful than the last. Disappointed by sub-par design conferences in the past, the trio decided they now had the experience to organize a more meaningful and inspirational conference on their own. Thought at Work was born. The co-chairs of 2004, Kari Iverson, Sara, Lin, and Patrick Rice, have one clearly defined goal: to keep the focus on the students. Every decision they make is tempered by this goal. That is why we invite you to contact us. Suggest a speaker. Deliver the diss. An actual human being will read each and every e-mail we receive, and respond with, at the very least, a recipe for homemade guacamole. Ah, progress.
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Kari Iverson is a senior majoring
in Industrial Design at RIT. She has worked with such organizations as
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, The Greater Rochester Housing
Partnership, and The Sherwin-Williams Company. Her junior year she acted
as co-chair of the student chapter of IDSA and a volunteer coordinator
for Thought at Work. Her senior year she founded “Adopt-A-Soph,” a
mentoring program for Industrial Designers. Kari plans to study architecture
sometime after graduation. Sara Lin is a fourth year student
at RIT and has been a member of the Golden Key Honor Society since 2002.
This summer Ms. Lin was an intern at Radius Product Design and this fall
she will start an internship with KEK Associates. In 2003-2004, she was
a co-chair of the IDSA RIT chapter and a volunteer coordinator for the
Thought at Work conference. Pat Rice is a fourth year
Industrial Design student at RIT. Though interested in all fields of design,
Patrick has chosen to concentrate on furniture. During the Summer of 2004,
Patrick studied Scandinavian Furniture Design at Denmark’s Design
School in Copenhagen, Denmark. The seven-week studio course included traveling
to various parts of Denmark, Sweden and Finland to study with furniture
houses such as P.P. Møbler, Fritz Hansen, IKEA, and Piiroinen. This
course culminated with the design and construction of a chair.
General queries: info@thoughtatwork.com |
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