Experience

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  Wooding Design

  • Owner/Design Director

    • Sep 1994 - Present

    President of IDSA (The Industrial Designers Society of America)

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  Rhode Island School of Design

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director, RISD Universal Kitchen Project

    • Sep 1995 - Jun 2003

    Co-Director of the special development of the Universal Kitchen at the Rhode Island School of Design--a major research project focusing on developing a New Universal Kitchen that would do the most good for the most people engaged in kitchen use. This special project continued over 5 years and involving over 100 students and 6 corporate sponsors and leading to multiple prototypes.. A final prototype kitchen was features in the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York. Maytag Corporation purchased the UK Design Rights from RISD.

  • Project Director/Universal Design

    • 1996 - 2001

    Along with 2 teaching colleagues, Jane Langmuir & Marc Harrison, we developed a Universal Design program focusing on the Home Kitchen.This project evolved from student teams working in existing kitchens, to new concepts, to prototypes and eventually full scale models for testing and then when finalized, displayed at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York. RISD later sold the rights to Maytag.

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  Peter Wooding Design Associates

  • Design Director

    • May 1978 - 2003

  • Design Director/Owner

    • Jun 1978 - 1994

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  IDSA (The Industrial Designers Society of America)

  • President

    • 1986 - 1988
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  Research & Design Institute (REDE)

  • Design Director

    • Dec 1971 - Aug 1978

    A creative, multidisciplinary Design Group established in the 60's by a group of Rhode Island community leaders including Sen. Claiborne Pell

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  General Electric Co.

  • Industrial Designer

    • 1963 - 1971

    Design included work on major appliances including Ranges Home Laundry, Dishwashers, Refrigerators and Air Conditioners. Work also included design for complete kitchens.

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  Herman Miller

  • Design Apprentice

    • 1961 - 1963

    Apprentice Industrial Designer working in the Research Division in Ann Arbor, MI under the direction of Robert Propst, Inventor or the Action Office (the 1st open plan office system in the US)