Mark Watson MDIA – M Des. (Industrial) RMIT – Design Providence
Founded in 1990, Design Providence is a multi disciplinary practice in the field of Interior Architecture and Product Design. Mark held office as Vice President with the Victorian Chapter of the Design Institute of Australia, also as Director with Arts & Recreation Training Victoria, and Artists & Industry. More recently he was Chair of the Victorian based Design Collective with the FIAA and a member of the FIAA National Design & Innovation Committee.
Highly regarded for expertise in furniture design, the practice has work represented in the National Gallery of Victoria, exhibiting both local and international, recently (2002) winning the ISSI – DIA Design Innovation Award presented by the Victorian Government Lead Minister for Design, the Honourable Lynne Kosky.
Mark completed a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design at RMIT, the research topic entitled 'Belonging’ investigated the role the physical environment plays in the form of artefacts.
Mark received an honorarium to present his findings at the International Interior Architect & Designer (IFI) Conference in Ireland in September 1997, and a paper titled “Sedition of the Gift’ at the ‘Design Sutra’ conference in Mumbai, India in December 2003, and numerous papers with CII NID Design Summit on Design Thinking.
Working in Service Design and Design Thinking since 2010 becoming a Partner with Amsterdam based DesignThinkers Group & Academy in 2013.
Mark is currently in India to participate in the International Council of Societies of Industrial (ICSID) Interdesign Workshop “Humanising the Metropolis” and has presented at IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, and DY DPC Center for Automotive Research & Studies, Pune as well as the NatCon InDesia for the Institute of Indian Interior Designers at Kolhapur.
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Mark Watson
- Date written:
- 2014
- Last updated:
- 2014
