Chris Rose

Chris Rose led Three Dimensional Design and Materials Practice at Brighton from 1994 to 2007. He currently teaches at Undergraduate and PostGraduate level in design and crafts fields, together with PhD supervision. Chris is a visiting critic in Design at Rhode Island School of Design USA, where he became Interim Dean of Graduate Studies in 2008-9. From 2010 he is specialising in a number of inter-institutional Art/Science initiatives in Europe and USA. These focus on the creation of spaces or events that promote knowledge negotiation between disciplines or where ‘expert’ and ‘general’ knowledge may effectively connect.

Chris is currently a group member of the ‘Breathing City’ project projected to feature within a Royal Society programme in summer 2010 for their 350th anniversary on the South Bank. He is also liaising through RISD with a NSF (USA) grant programme for Art-Science education in the State of Rhode Island.

Chris Rose was invited to contribute to two Cross-discipline seminars connected with touch-related knowledge hosted by The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, The MIT media Lab and Haystack Mountain School of Craft. These events ranged over the complexities of touch-related knowledge of materials related practices such as blacksmithing or studio ceramics, and the virtual world of machine haptics, research in surgical procedures and exotic materials. These seminars included practitioners from architecture, design and sculpture, educators, writers, technologists, software engineers, robotics designers and a juggler.

Subsequently Chris was invited to run a workshop on creativity at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, education department. He has also funded by the Creativity CETL with the Universities of Brighton and Sussex to run the “Shared Insight; Understanding Creativity” international project, with workshops in the UK, India and USA.

The pioneer project for his work in knowledge negotiation was in Travelling Facts; The Social Construction, Distribution and Accumulation of Knowledge Eds. Caroline Baillie, Elizabeth Dunn, Yi Zheng. Campus Verlag 2004.

Chris has been selected as a recipient of a 2010 Award of Merit in recognition of research excellence by the Award Council of the International Institute for Advanced Systems Research and Cybernetics, to be presented at the IIAS 30th Anniversary meeting and conference in Germany in August 2010.