Dr Rob Phillips is a senior tutor at the Royal College of Art, Design Products + Futures Programme. A product designer with twenty years’ experience, including: five patents, manufacturer with 3+ million products in retail, leading research papers, life-saving ballistics and material developments and user-orientated proposals. His latest collaborative project with Goldsmiths, Interaction Design Research Studio (www.mynaturewatch.net) uses distributed design fostering people’s engagement in the natural world and was broadcast on BBC Springwatch. He has run over 50 design workshops with interdisciplinary teams, cultures and international participants. Their user-orientated proposals and involvement in design for team GB, using revolutionary material developments including lifesaving fire/ballistics and leading research publications. His research seeks to ‘Engage Design’, decreasing our impact and gaining insights into sustainable transitions. His latest book Futurekind: Design by and for the People (Thames & Hudson), culminates research to be ‘holistically sustainable’ being FutureKind to PlanetKind.
Contact: Design Products, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU, UK.
